Cutting Agate, First Edition (28 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. Large 8vo, half black cloth, gray cloth-covered boards. A couple of small water-stains on fore-edges, else fine. Jacket edge-worn, torn and repaired and scuffed on front cover, else very good. Ideas of Good and Evil, The Cutting of an Agate, later essays and introductions.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good+. First American Edition. octavo; 255pp plus ads; Hardcover 1912 First American Ed in very nice shape, boards sunned & rubbed w/bumped nick to outer edge, spine and panel labels chipped at edges, spine faded, PO bookplate on pastedown, a few small soil spots to endpapers & adhesion tear rear panel, despite flaws still a very nice 1st Ed copy.

Condition: Good. First edition copy. . Good dust jacket. (literature, intellectual life).

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. First US Edition. Hinges cracked and spine rubbed; cloth is fair only; internally very good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust jacket included. First Edition. ISBN . Hardback. First Printing. Very Good condition book in a Very Good condition dust jacket with minor chips, tears, rubs and creases around its edges. Tight, sound, unmarked copy. No Signature.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. First American Edition Good+ Hardcover Good+ Dust Jacket New York: Macmillan, 1961 Stated "First Edition"light Wear and Tear on jacket in the form of small tears and rubs but whole. NOT Price Clipped. Clean Pages Free of Underlines. But owners signature on front board hidden by dust jacket flap. NOT a library copy. Three books within. W.B. Yeats prose that reads like poetry. Yeat's essay "The Celtic element in Literature" is worth the book alone on this First Edition Yeats. His essay on ritual magic is another."William Blake"Shakespeare" Many such 528 pp. See our Three Geese in Flight Celtic Book Scans.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. The Macmillan Company, New York, 1912, Hardcover, First American Edition & First True Edition (precedes the British which was published in 1919). Essays by Yates. Book condition: Good plus: tight copy age toned, which is ex library with the usual issues: pocket in the back and a page in the front with Medford Mass.; a stamp in red on the bottom of the text block; intake information from 1916 (please see photos) a number of notations and lines beside passages in pencil, 2 long thin and not deep stains on the text block top which stretch for 100 pages or so and were made probably more that 100 years ago, and an almost loose first page.despite these issues the book is in nice tight shape and seems very little read.The binding (which has a white sticker at the spine) and a light scuff on the front has been rebound to library binding and the titles on the spine are stamped in gold.more photos available.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First U.K. Edition. First English Edition. Original blue cloth with lovely gilt cover decoration by T. Sturge Moore with his initials TSM at base of spine in gilt. Light rubbing to extremities; tasteful old bookplate to front pastedown, brief neatly penned previous owner inscription at top corner of front free endpaper. Binding is tight and square, hinges are sound. Pages are clean. 223 pages. Attractive, solid book - gift quality.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: None. First American Edition. First American Edition. Good Pale Green Hardcover, 1912. Pages Clean NOT a library book. some mottling on spine and some loss at the top of the spine. Paper title patch intact on cover with a little soiling. Title patch intact and complete on spine with fading of words. See our scans Tight binding. Internally Very Good clean. Binding tight. Essays. "Spenser" and the Faerie Queene 'Lady Gregory's Translations,' "Fionn and His Cycle' 'Cuchulain 'Poetry and Tradition. Many more essays. Even Yeats prose is like poetry.

First edition. First edition of this collection of essays from Yeats, which was published in the U.S. 7 years before being published in London. Nice copy of a book usually found in poor condition. Hardcover in paper boards with printed labels on front cover and spine. Boards toned on spine and with some spotting to labels. Very good. Publisher's catalogue and period advertisement from the Globe-Wernicke Co. laid in.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First English Edition. 221pp. Blue Cloth, gilt lettering and decoration on the front panel and the spine. Ex library copy with envelope etc. Good binding copy. Some pages are uncut. Hinges are in excellent condition. Size: Octavo. Book.

Hardcover. First Edition; First Printing. Near Fine in a Very Good+ dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Blue cloth hard cover with decorative gilt lines and figure designed by Sturge Moore, and no cover wear. Clean interior with vii, 223 untrimmed pages. This 1st edition published in 1919 is in fine condition.

First edition. (precedes the English edition). 8vo., orig. green paper boards, printed labels on the spine and upper cover. Lacking the front free e/paper o/w a better than very good but not quite near fine copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition, preceding the U.K. edition by seven years. Papercovered boards with printed paper labels. Pages a bit wavy, but displaying no evidence of dampness, a very good copy.

First U.K. edition of a title originally published in New York in 1912. Octavo. 223 pages. Original blue cloth. Cover design in gilt by T. Sturge Moore. New Preface by the author and among the essays is "Certain Noble Plays in Japan" which wasn't in the 1912 edition and which accounts for the mask in the cover design. Gilt on spine a bit dull. Head and tail of spine slightly pushed. Bottom corner of front cover slightly bumped. Very good. No dustwrapper.

8vo., First Edition thus, on laid paper; original navy buckram, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt to an art-nouveau design, uncut, lower upper corner lightly bruised else a near fine copy. The striking cover design is by Thomas Sturge Moore with his initials at foot of backstrip. Published seven years after the US edition with altered contents. SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Wade 126 (recording that 1500 copies were printed).

First UK edition. VI, (2), 223 pp. Publisher's decorated cloth, dust-jacket worn and partly damaged, half-title partly miscoloured, book-plate. Overall a very good copy.

12mo. pp. vii, 223. A fine copy in dark blue cloth, gilt decoration by T. Sturge Moore. Presentation copy blindstamp. First UK Edition (first published in New York in 1912). 1500 copies printed. Wade 126.

First English edition; 8vo (20 x 13.5 cm); publisher's device to half-title verso, erased ownership inscription to front free endpaper, notes in pen to rear free endpaper verso and a few very minor marginal annotations, paper browned; publisher's blue cloth gilt stamped with design by Thomas Sturge Moore, glassine wrapper, fore-edge uncut, spine caps rubbed; vii, [1], 223, [1]pp. The first English edition of Yeats' prose collection, The Cutting of an Agate. 'I wrote the greater number of these essays during the ten years after 1902. During those years I wrote little verse and no prose that did not arise out of some need of the Irish players, or from some thought suggested by their work' (Preface). The contents of the English and American editions are substantially different. Here 'Certain Noble Plays for Japan' is substituted in place of 'Thought on Lady Gregory's Translations'. Wade 126.

Hardback. vii, 222pp Macmillan, London 1919. 1st UK edition. A very nice copy in the original blue cloth with gilt decorations by Thomas Sturge Moore.

First British edition. 8vo., original blue buckram, with the Sturge Moore design and lettering in gilt on spine and upper cover. London, Macmillan and Co. Wade 126. An excellent copy, the gilt slightly tarnished on the spine.

Condition: V.G. First. p.p. vii - 223. Original blue cloth with Sturge Moore design. Some ephemera. Partly unopened.

Condition: V.G. First. p.p. vi - 223. Original blue cloth, gilt cover and spine by T. Sturge Moore.

Condition: V.G. First. p.p. vii - 223. Original blue gilt cloth with fine Sturge Moore gilt design on upper cover.

Condition: V.G. First. p.p. vii 223 Original dark blue cloth with fine Sturge Moore design. Gilt lettering on upper cover and spine.

Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. First edition, first printing. Signed by W.B. Yeats on the title page and dated Nov. 23 1922. Bound in publisher's navy coarse cloth decorated in gilt; lacking the dust jacket. Very Good+ with darkening to spine, minor wear at extremities with bumped bottom corners. Rear cloth slightly rippled. Small ink spot on bottom fore edge; former owner's bookplate designed by Laurence Housman on front pastedown. Another former owner's signature on front free endpaper dated 1927, Cambridge. Front free endpaper slightly torn at top gutter. Yeats' series of essays written between 1902-1912, first published in the U.S. Provenance of Sydney Matthewman who founded The Swan Press at Leeds University. Binding designed by Thomas Sturge Moore.

First UK edition, first impression. The 1912 New York publication of this title had substantially different contents. An attractive copy and uncommon in the dust jacket. Octavo. Original blue cloth, decoration by Sturge Moore and titles to front board and spine gilt. With dust jacket. Contents unopened. Light partial toning to free endpapers. A lovely, fresh copy in the jacket that is lightly rubbed and marked with a contemporary over-price sticker to the faded spine panel.