YEATS, WILLIAM BUTLER | A Group of Earlier Cuala First Editions

The Property of a Gentleman

 YEATS, WILLIAM BUTLER

A Group of Earlier Cuala First Editions

The Green Helmet and other Poems. Churchtown, Dundrum: Cuala Press, 1910. 8vo (5 5/8 x 8 1/4 in.; 145 x 210 mm). Woodcut device to title-page, errata slip tipped in after title, colophon printed in red; minor toning. Gray paper covered boards, title to upper cover printed in black, cream linen spine, paper label to spine, gray endpapers; some toning to boards and spine, chips to spine label. First edition, one of 400 copies printed. Wade 84 — A Selection from the Love Poetry of William Butler Yeats. Churchtown, Dundrum: The Cuala Press, 1913. 8vo (5 1/2 x 8 1/8 in.; 144 x 210 mm). Vignette to title-page, colophon printed in red; minor toning. Gray paper covered boards bound by Galwey & Co., upper board printed in black, linen spine, paper label to spine; extremities slightly rubbed, spine sunned, chip to label. In custom blue and cream colored linen clamshell case. First edition, one of 300 copies. Wade 106. Declan O'Riordan (bookplate to front free endpaper) — Michael Robartes and the Dancer. Dundrum: The Cuala Press, 1920. 8vo. (5 5/8 x 8 1/4 in.; 145 x 210 mm). Woodcut device to title-page printed in red, colophon printed in red; minor toning, closed marginal tear to early leaf. Blue paper covered boards, title to upper cover printed in black, tan linen spine, paper label to spine, blue endpapers, uncut. In custom blue and tan linen covered clamshell case. First edition, one of 400 copies printed. Wade 127. Burgess Meredith (initials and note to front free endpaper in pencil) — Seven Poems and a Fragment. Churchtown, Dundrum: Cuala Press, 1922. 8vo (5 5/8 x 8 1/4 in.; 145 x 210 mm). Woodcut device to title-page in red, errata slip tipped in after title, colophon printed in red; minor toning. Gray paper covered boards, title to upper cover printed in black, tan linen spine, uncut; some toning to spine. First edition, one of 500 copies printed. Wade 132 — Gregory, Augusta Persse, Lady. Coole. Dublin: The Cuala Press, 1931. 8vo (5 5/8 x 8 1/4 in.; 145 x 210 mm). Woodcut device to 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, uncut, original cream paper dustjacket; a few chips to jacket, split to spine panel of jacket. First edition, one of 250 copies printed. Wade 319

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Together a fine collection of early Cuala Press editions, which draws together the first books printing of some of Yeats's most important poems, to include  “Easter, 1916,” “A Meditation in Time of War,” and “Thoughts Upon the Present State of the World,” (better known under its eventual title “Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen”).