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YEATS, W.B. (William Butler), 1865-1939 : POEMS, 1899-1905. London : A. H. Bullen / Dublin : Maunsel & Co., 1906. First edition. “I walked among the seven woods of Coole ...” – heavily revised versions of three verse plays (“The Shadowy Waters”, “On Baile’s Strand” and “The King’s Threshold”), together with fifteen poems (some previously published in a limited edition), including “In the Seven Woods”, “Never Give all the Heart”, “The Withering of the Boughs” and “Under the Moon”. Yeats’ preface provides a highly interesting commentary on his work at this period. SOLD |
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YEATS, W.B. (William Butler), 1865-1939 : FOUR PLAYS FOR DANCERS. London : Macmillan & Co., 1921. First edition : [one of 1,500 copies]. “At the Hawk’s Well”, “The Only Jealousy of Emer”, “The Dreaming of the Bones” and “Calvary”, with some fine illustrations by Edmund Dulac (1882-1953), music, notes on the plays, etc. SOLD |
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YEATS, W.B. (William Butler), 1865-1939 : WORDS FOR MUSIC PERHAPS AND OTHER POEMS. Dublin : Cuala Press, 1932. First edition : limited to 450 copies printed and published by Elizabeth Corbet Yeats at the Cuala Press. A collection of forty-six poems, including some of Yeats’ finest work – “Byzantium”, “Coole Park 1929”, “The Nineteenth Century and After”, “The Crazed Moon”, “Quarrel in Old Age”, “I Am of Ireland”, the “Crazy Jane” sequence, etc. £500 To purchase, call us or e-mail us at books@ashrare.com quoting stock number 43996 – or simply click on the button
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YEATS, W.B. (William Butler), 1865-1939 : THE WINDING STAIR AND OTHER POEMS. London : Macmillan & Co., 1933. First edition : [one of 2,000 copies]. A collection of over sixty poems, some of which had previously appeared in limited editions published in Dublin and New York. The collection includes some of Yeats’ finest work – “Blood and the Moon”, “Mad as the Mist and Snow”, “Byzantium”, “Coole Park, 1929”, “The Nineteenth Century and After”, “The Crazed Moon”, “Quarrel in Old Age”, “I Am of Ireland”, the “Crazy Jane” and “A Woman Young and Old” sequences, etc. SOLD |
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