Ganconagh Pseud (2 results)

First edition; 8vo (18 x 10 cm); ownership inscription in pen to upper cover and front free endpaper recto, printer's device to half-title, woodcut head and tail-pieces, publisher's ads. to half-title verso, occasional annotations in pencil, minor browning to endpapers; publisher's buff cloth, lettered in blue, publisher's device to lower cover, top-edge gilt otherwise untrimmed, minor wear to spine caps and edges; [4], 195, [1]pp. The first edition of Yeat's John Sherman and Dhoya, published under the pseudonym Ganconagh. The tenth volume in The Pseudonym Library series, and Yeat's third published book after Mosada and The Wanderings of Oisin. One of only 356 copies issued in cloth. 'Written when I was very young & knew no better. Ballah is the town of Sligo where I lived as a child â" a vague impression of it but I think a true one' (Yeats). Wade 4.

FIRST EDITION. Half title. Uncut in orig. mustard yellow envelope wraps; sl. dusted & marked, spine chipped & split but sound. Wade 4; quoting Symons that the initial print run consisted of 1644 copies in wrappers and 356 in cloth. Despite the disparity in numbers of the two original formats, of the ten copies offered at auction in the last 30 years, six have been in cloth and only four in wrappers. These two stories represent Yeats' only completed attempt at realistic fiction. John Sherman tells the story of a man being torn between two different cities (London and Dublin), and two different women; Dhoya is a mythological tale about the relationship between a fairy and a mortal.