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Yeats, William Butler.. Two Plays For Dancers by W. B. Yeats.. The Cuala Press, MCMXIX., 1919.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: [Colophon]: "[-]Four hundred copies of this book have been printed and published by Elizabeth Corbet Yeats on paper made in Ireland, at the Cuala Press, Churchtown, Dundrum, in the County of Dublin, Ireland. Finished on the tenth day of January in the year nineteen hundred and nineteen." 5 7/8 inches x 8 3/8 in., title-page with Monoceros design woodcut; [4]pp., [1]-38 pp. + colophon page printed in red; text in printed in red and black. Tan cloth spine and sides, lacking the title label, blue-gray paper over boards, with titling printed in black on the front cover, gray endpapers. Circular Deanta in Eirinn label present on the back endpaper. The paper and cloth on the back cover shows some damp staining to about half of the surface. The cover corners show wear, age-related tanning to the cloth spine, paper on the covers, endpapers, flyleaves, page margins. Contents: The Dreaming of the Bones; The Only Jealousy of Emer; and a short preface by W. B. Yeats.
Seller: Peter Keisogloff Rare Books, Inc., Brecksville, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$800.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: HARDBACK NODustjacket,1919 on Title pg, 1st edition, First Trade Edition After Privately Printed Edition of 400 Copies By the Author's Sister on Her Own Press (Exceedingly Scarce) ,VG+, AS-IS, NOJACKET, 114 pages + with concluding note by Yeats, NO ads at Rear, Text block is clean and tight; binding firm, original blue gilt Sturge Moore designed cover , edges untrimmed. 5 1/4 X 7 3/4 in. Gilt faded from spine cvr, INTERIOR NICE TIGHT CLEAN LIGHT WEAR, FOX, , In addition to the 29 poems first published in the limited 1917 Cuala Press edition of the same name, this edition of The Wild Swans at Coole includes the first book appearances of "In Memory of Major Robert Gregory" and "An Irish Airman foresees his Death", two of Yeats's most important poems, both concerning the death of the son of Lady Augusta Gregory, Yeats's patroness and the chatelaine of Coole Park. The collection also includes the title poem, "The Collar Bone of a Hare", "Upon a Dying Lady", "Broken Dreams", "Ego Dominus Tuus", "Phases of the Moon", "The Scholars", and "To A Young Beauty"
Seller: Bluff Park Rare Books, LONG BEACH, CA, U.S.A.
Yeats, William Butler. Two Plays for Dancers. The Cuala Press, Churchtown, Dundrum, 1919.
Price: US$1000.00 + shipping
Description: First edition, one of 400 copies. Woodcut title device by T. Sturge Moore. [iv], 38, [2] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Wade 123; Miller 28 Publisher's linen-backed blue boards, titled in black on front cover, paper spine label. Fine in glassine dust-jacket. Bookplate after Jack Yeats drawing Woodcut title device by T. Sturge Moore. [iv], 38, [2] pp. 1 vols. 8vo
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.