Yeats Contributor (8 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. gft spl edition. 415 pages. 6.25x4.00x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Large contribution by William Butler Yeats, alongside Agnes Lee, Alfred Kreymborg, and an article on The Work of Ezra Pound by Carl Sandburg. Light chipping to front cover; top quarter of wrappers detached at spine, but in tact. Without other issue.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. First appearance of Yeats' The Wild Swans at Coole. Fine; covers burnt at edges.

Hardcover. Limited Edition, #23/50. Quarto, xv, 154 pages. In Very Good minus condition lacking the issued glassine dust jacket and cardboard slipcase. Quarter bound in publisher's blue/gray cloth with brown paper and gilt lettering on the spine and front board. Boards have chipping along the rear tail edge and tail fore corners, stains along the publisher's cloth, finger stains and discoloration from shelving wear on the paper boards and edges, and bending wear along the spine head/tail and tail fore corners. Textblock has slight splitting along the gutter between pages 74/75, smudges on the verso of the plate between pages 142-143, discoloration on pages opposite to plates and manuscripts, mild adhesive stains along the gutter on some pages throughout, minor soiling on some pages throughout, and mild age toning along the edges. DL consignment. Shelved in Case 12. This book is number 23 of 50 copies printed in a larger format than the trade edition and signed by the printer D.B. Updike on the publisher's limitation page. These 50 copies were issued with four facsimiles of manuscripts tipped-in and an additional suite of plates in a separate portfolio. As is usual, this copy lacks the portfolio and additional plates. The Book of the Homeless is a 1916 collection of essays, art, poetry, and musical scores. Proceeds of its sales were used to fund civilians displaced by World War I. 1395395. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.

Hardcover. Condition: Good +. Limited Edition. Square octavo, 94pp. A good or better copy, clean and sharp internally, with a neat repair to the spine, which was heavily darkened and soiled, and has been expertly laid down onto sympathetic Japan vellum, matching that of the original spine. Tiny austere bookplate of J. O. Edwards to the front paste-down. Housed in a handsome (if tight-fitting) custom-made purple cloth clamshell box with gilt-stamped burgundy morocco label to front board. Despite the noted wear and repair, still an internally beautiful copy of a most desirable Yeats item, one of just 50 copies of the vanishingly rare large paper edition (this is number 44). Yeats was a co-founder and visionary behind the Rhymers' Club, and this was the first of just two books they produced. Yeats contributed six poems to this inaugural volume, among these "The Lake Isle of Innisfree." The large paper edition is considerably scarcer in the trade than the regular edition (that of 350 copies). We trace just two auction appearances since the 1980s, both for the same copy, which was rebound. Wade 291.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. No 1: Small stain to front cover. Wear to the oversized edges. Spine and top-edge of back cover slightly faded. Spine slightly removing from text block but all sound. Very good or better. No. 12: Wear to the oversized edges. Spine slightly faded. Fine.

First Edition. First Edition. 12mo. 94pp. publisher's smooth light tan cloth with Rhymers' Club paper label on spine. A special presentation copy from Eugene Field to his friend Irving Way, author, literary agent and book publisher in Chicago who formed the fine press house of Way and WiIliams, inspired by William Morris and the Kelmscott Press, with a superb inscription in Field's lovely miniscule hand ( a quotable poem in itself) and with Eugene Field's bookplate. On front free endpaper: "To W. I. Way, Esqr., A poet who will not poetize, from Eugene Field, A rhymer who rhymes. Chicago, April 5th, 1893." Chipping to paper label, very slight wear to extr. of spine, near fine. Contributors include (but not limited to): W.B. Yeats, Ernest Dowson, Lionel Johnson, Richard Le Gallienne, and Arthur Symons. The first and rarest of the Rhymers' anthologies. 350 copies for sale.