Lot 142
  • 142

Cuala Press--Yeats, W.B.

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Description

  • Collection of twelve books published by the Cuala Press from the library of lily yeats. Dublin: Cuala Press, 1926-44, comprising:
Estrangement. 1926, one of 300 copies, signed "Lily Yeats | July 27th 1926", unopened, [Miller 38; Wade 150]; The Death of Synge. 1928, one of 400 copies, signed "Lily Yeats | June 13th 1928. | Dundrum", unopened, [Miller 41; Wade 162]; Stories of Michael Robartes and His Friends... 1931, one of 450 copies, [Miller 47; Wade 167]; Words for Music Perhaps and other Poems. 1932, one of 450 copies, [Miller 49; Wade 168; Wade 174]; The Words Upon the Window Pane... 1934, one of 350 copies, [Miller 52; Wade 174]; The King of the Great Clock Tower... 1934, one of 400 copies, [Miller 53; Wade 179]; Dramatis Personae. 1935, one of 400 copies, [Miller 54; Wade 183]; Essays... 1931 to 1936. 1937, one of 300 copies, [Miller 57; Wade 194]; New Poems. 1938, one of 450 copies, [Miller 59; Wade 197]; Last Poems and Two Plays. 1939, one of 500 copies, [Miller 61; Wade 200]; If I Were Four-And-Twenty. 1940, number 127 of 450 copies, unopened, [Miller 65; Wade 205]; Pages from a Diary written in Nineteen Hundred and Thirty. 1944, number 1 of 280 copies, [Miller 75; Wade 207]; all 8vo, original linen-backed boards, all but last volume in ?original unprinted dust-jackets or glassine, all but last volume with lily yeats' bookplate, occasional browning, some dust-jackets frayed at extremities or short tears (12)

Provenance

from the libary of Lily Yeats

Condition

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Catalogue Note

W.B. Yeats died at Roquebrune in the South of France on 28 January 1939.  In his final decade, and even after his death, his work continued to be a mainstay of Cuala's output.