Display Signed Copies Only Display All Inventory on Abebooks

Available Copies from Independent Booksellers

A.E. [George William Russell]. The Earth Breath and Other Poems. John Lane, Sign of the Bodley Head, New York and London, 1897.

Price: US$150.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: 94pp. Gray boards with blue/gray illustration on front board. Upper back edge slightly bumped. Cream cloth spine with titles pasted on in black. Chip missing from title paste down, but words are intact. Previous owner's stamp across front endpapers. Several groupings of pages are uncut. Foxing throughout. Dedicated to WB Yeats. AE (also presented as Æ or AE) was the pen name of George William Russell, a poet, editor, critic and Irish Nationalist. He was also a prominent figure in circles devoted to mysticism, including the theosophists.

Seller: The Chatham Bookseller, Madison, NJ, U.S.A.

AE [George William Russell].. The Earth Breath and Other Poems by A.E.. John Lane The Bodley Head, New York and London, 1897.

Price: US$200.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: First American Edition. Very Good. Diminutive squarish format. Publisher's original dull dark greenish-grey paper covered thin boards printed in dark green at spine and front cover, all edges untrimmed. Worn at spine ends and lower edge (chipped). Offsetting to endpapers. SIGNED "George Russell 'AE'" by the Author on the free front endpaper. Small ink cross-outs to top edge of FFEP. Erasure to front pastedown. Text clean and unmarked. 94pp. Poet's second book. Scarce. Q15351

Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.

A.E. [George William Russell]. [Bradley, Will- Wayside Press] The Earth Breath and Other Poems. John Lane, Sign of the Bodley Head, New York and London, 1897.

Price: US$275.00 + shipping

Description: Original illustrated paper covered boards, buckram spine with original printed paper label. Attractive sepia-tinted illustration to title page and colophon. Printed at Will Bradley's Wayside Press. Fine with slight bumping to lower corners. Thomas Boss.

Seller: Nudelman Rare Books, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.