YEATS, WILLIAM BUTLER | Four Later First Editions

The Property of a Gentleman

YEATS, WILLIAM BUTLER

Four Later First Editions

Words for Music Perhaps and Other Poems. Dublin: The Cuala Press, 1932. 8vo (5 5/8 x 8 1/4 in.; 145 x 210 mm). Woodcut ornament in red following title-page, colophon printed in red. Blue paper covered boards, title to upper cover printed in black, cream linen spine, paper label to spine, blue endpapers. In custom blue and tan linen covered clamshell case. First edition, one of 450 copies printed. Wade 168 — New Poems. Dublin: The Cuala Press, 1938. 8vo (5 5/8 x 8 1/4 in.; 145 x 210 mm). Woodcut vignette to title-page, colophon printed in red; minor toning. Blue paper covered boards, title to upper cover printed in black, cream linen spine, paper label to spine, blue endpapers. In custom blue and cream linen covered clamshell case. First edition, one of 450 copies printed. Wade 197. Burgess Meredith (initials and note to front free endpaper in pencil) — Last Poems and Two Plays. Dublin, Ireland: The Cuala Press, 1939. 8vo (5 5/8 x 8 1/4 in.; 145 x 210 mm). Woodcut unicorn vignette to title-page, colophon printed in red; minor toning. Blue paper covered boards, title to upper cover printed in black, cream linen spine, paper label to spine, blue endpapers. In custom blue and tan linen covered clamshell case. First edition, one of 500 copies. Wade 200 — Last Poems and Plays. London: Macmillan & Co., 1940. 8vo (5 3/8 x 8 1/2 in.; 135 x 220 mm). Half-title; half-title toned. Original full green cloth, upper cover pictorially stamped in blind in design by T. Sturge Moore, spine gilt lettered, original light blue dustjacket with cover design repeated in dark blue; some toning and chipping to jacket. In custom blue and cream linen covered clamshell case. First edition, Anne Yeats’s copy, inscribed by her in pencil on front free end paper “Anne Butler Yeats 1940 Dublin” and stamped in red with her monogram. Wade 203

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