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Yeats, William Butler (W.B. Yeats). Responsibilities Poems and a Play. Cuala Press, 1914.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Edition, First Printing of this limited edition. The book is bound in the publisher's cloth and is in great shape. The binding is tight with NO cocking or leaning with light wear to the boards. The pages are clean with NO writing, marks or bookplates in the book. A wonderful copy.
Seller: Magnum Opus Rare Books, Missoula, MT, U.S.A.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. [4] ff. (blank), [8], 74, [7], [1, blank], [1, colophon (verso blank)] pp., [4] ff. (blank). 1 vols. 8vo. "In these poems Yeats, influenced by his young secretary Pound, breaks away from his early manner and begins to purge his imagery of abstraction and to write more simply and directly." (Connolly). Wade 110. Connolly 100, 24. Includes "September, 1913", "To a Friend whose Work has come to Nothing" and "The Cold Heaven", among other poems Linen spine and printed boards, with label on front pastedown Bound by Galwey & Co. Eustace St., Dublin. Bookplate of Pete Laney [4] ff. (blank), [8], 74, [7], [1, blank], [1, colophon (verso blank)] pp., [4] ff. (blank). 1 vols. 8vo
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Yeats, W. B.. Responsibilities. Cuala Press, 1914.
Price: US$2000.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: A fine first edition of this limited edition, number 139 of 400 copies.
Seller: Bookbid, Beverly Hills, CA, U.S.A.
YEATS, W. B.. Responsibilities: Poems And A Play. The Cuala Press, Churchtown, Dundrum, 1914.
Price: US$5000.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo, original linen-backed paper over boards. A very fine, unopened copy of a scarce book. A very fine, unopened copy of a scarce book First edition (400 copies printed). Wade 110. Connolly 100, 24. Includes "September, 1913", "To a Friend whose Work has come to Nothing" and "The Cold Heaven", among other poems. Laid in is a small card with a passage from the prefatory poem in Responsibilities, "only the wasteful virtues earn the sun", signed by Yeats.
Seller: James S. Jaffe Rare Books, LLC, ABAA, Deep River, CT, U.S.A.
YEATS, W. B.. Responsibilities: Poems And A Play. The Cuala Press, Churchtown, Dundrum, 1914.
Price: US$10000.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo, original linen-backed paper over boards. Spine faintly sunned, otherwise a fine copy. Spine faintly sunned, otherwise a fine copy First edition. One of 400 copies printed. Wade 110. Connolly 100, 24. Signed by Yeats on the title-page. Includes "September, 1913", "To a Friend whose Work has come to Nothing" and "The Cold Heaven", among other poems. Authentic signatures of Yeats in Cuala Press editions are rare.
Seller: James S. Jaffe Rare Books, LLC, ABAA, Deep River, CT, U.S.A.