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YEATS, John Butler Selected by Ezra Pound. Passages from the Letters of John Butler Yeats: Selected by Ezra Pound. Churchtown, Dundrum. The Cuala Press. 1917, 1917.

Price: US$151.63 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 8vo, 21cm, the first edition, limited edition of 400 copies, [4](1)60,[1]p., title-page vignette, errata sheet laid in, limited page & colophon printed in red, quarter linen back blue-grey printed boards and blue-grey end-papers, lacking paper spine label, former owner's name on front endpaper, some foxing on the boards and some dust soiling on the linen, a very good copy (ids) ~ Miller 25. Passages taken from letters written between 1911 and 1916 to W.B. Yeats, with editor's note by Ezra Pound. "Published and printed by Elizabeth Corbet Yeats on paper made in Ireland."

Seller: J. Patrick McGahern Books Inc. (ABAC), Ottawa, ON, Canada

Yeats John Butler; Pound Ezra (introduction). Passages from the Letters of John Butler Yeats selected by Ezra Pound. Cuala Press, Churchtown, County of Dublin, 1917.

Price: US$194.93 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: (vi) 60pp.(i) colophon. 400 copies printed in two colours by Elizabeth Corbet Yeats on paper made in Ireland. Two page introduction by Pound. Slight offsetting on first blank with name dated Jan 47 in a neat hand. Very lightly soiled boards bumped & rubbed at corners. No spine label.

Seller: The Poetry Bookshop : Hay-on-Wye, Hay-on-Wye, POWYS, United Kingdom

Yeats (John Butler). Selected, with an Editor’s Note, by Ezra Pound. Passages from the Letters of John Butler Yeats. Cuala Press, Churchtown, Dundrum,, 1917.

Price: US$307.02 + shipping

Description: One of 400 copies Lower corners very slightly bruised, otherwise an exceptionally nice copy; small, neat, lightly pencilled marginal notes to a few pages

Seller: Bertram Rota Ltd, Kintbury, United Kingdom

John Butler Yeats. Passages from the Letters of John Butler Yeats, selected by Ezra Pound. The Cuala Press, 1917.

Price: US$361.96 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 1917. First Edition. Hardcover. Selected by Ezra Pound. Four Hundred copies were printed. 60pp. Quarter cloth on paper covered boards. Title in black on front board. Page edges uncut. Some shading to spine, boards and pages. Overall a fine copy with tight binding and clear bright text. Keywords: Irish Literature, Letters, Limited Editions, Rare and Antiquarian Books. First edition copy. . . .

Seller: Kennys Bookshop and Art Galleries Ltd., Galway, GY, Ireland

CUALA PRESS ; YEATS John Butler. Passages from the Letters of John Butler Yeats. Selected by Ezra Pound. , 1917.

Price: US$421.05 + shipping

Description: First edition. 8vo., original quarter pale linen, grey paper-covered boards, lettered in black on upper cover, printed paper label on spine. Dundrum, The Cuala Press. One of 350 copies. A near fine copy. Miller 25.

Seller: Maggs Bros. Ltd ABA, ILAB, PBFA, BA, London, United Kingdom

Yeats. Passages from the Letters of John Butler Yeats. Cuala Press, Churchtown, 1917.

Price: US$662.66 + shipping

Description: Signed by Elizabeth C. Yeats Passages from the Letters of John Butler Yeats: selected by Ezra Pound. p.p. 3 - 61. Limited edition (400). Signed and dedicated by Elizabeth C. Yeats to the Artist Josephine Webb - New Year 1918. Quarter linen blue boards, printed in black. Remnant of paper label on spine. Scarce with publisher’s signed dedicated A.E. review (Irish Times) tipped in.

Seller: Healy Rare Books, Galway, Ireland

Yeats, John Butler. Passages from the Letters of John Butler Yeats: Selected by Ezra Pound. The Cuala Press, Churchtown, Dundrum, 1917.

Price: US$750.00 + shipping

Description: First edition, limited to 400 copies ["Published and printed by Elizabeth Corbet Yeats, on paper made in Ireland."]. [xii], 61pp. 8vo. The printer, Elizabeth Corbet Yeats (1868-1940), was the daughter of Irish artist John Butler Yeats, and sister of W. B., Jack and Susan Yeats. She was a member of William Morris' circle in London, prior to returning to Dublin, in 1900. She worked with Morris on the Kelmscott Press, and studied printing with the Women's Printing Society in London. She accepted an invitation to join Evelyn Gleeson to form the Dun Emer Guild, along with her sister Susan. Elizabeth managed the Dun Emer Press from 1902. The Press was located at the house of Evelyn Gleeson, and was set up with the intention of training young women in bookbinding and printing. In 1904, with her brother William, she started the Cuala Press, publishing over 70 books. Elizabeth Yeats was the first commercial printer in Ireland to work exclusively with hand presses [see 'Unseen Hands: Women Printers, Binders & Book Designers,' Princeton University]. Linen spine, publisher's printed paper label on spine, blue paper-covered boardsLight foxing and tanning on linen spine, spine label is browned (with early glue mend), and the fragile label has uneven chipping (just touching one letter in printed spine title), few spots of foxing and light soiling to extremities of covers, else a very good copy, with text quite fresh and clean First edition, limited to 400 copies ["Published and printed by Elizabeth Corbet Yeats, on paper made in Ireland."].

Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.