Second Coming by Yeats William (5 results)

Condition: Very Good. Ott Jr., John (illustrator). 1701775510. 12/5/2023 11:25:10 AM.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. Ott Jr., John (illustrator). 24 pages. 10.00x8.00x0.06 inches. This item is printed on demand.

The Second Coming (Again) features the text of YeatsÕ poem ÒThe Second ComingÓ with edited enjambment, new stanza breaks, and abstract paintings that encourage a new perspective on the classic poem. In the artistÕs statement included in the prospectus, Fenton writes: ÒÔThe Second ComingÕ references political and economic threats of the early 20th century which were dominating the cultural, political, and social news of the time. These threats (nativism, anarchy, nationalism, and worse) were compounded by the brutality of the Great War. This poem explores these complex events and emotions and seems very relevant to what we face in the early 21st century.Ó 8 inches by 5 inches. 36 ff., plus fourteen Japanese kozo paper leaves painted on both sides by Jodee Fenton in gouache, tempera, watercolor, and polyacrylic varnish. Each copy includes a unique set of paintings. Additional painted kozo paper cutouts used as accents throughout. Deluxe edition bound in full dark brown leather. Reddish-orange painted top edge. Blue and gray handwoven silk headbands. With the original prospectus. A fine copy, as new, housed in the natural cloth clamshell case. One of two deluxe copies (total edition of thirty). Designed by Jodee Fenton at Aubergine Atelier and printed by Bonnie Thompson Norman at the Windowpane Press. Jodee Fenton is a painter, a bookbinder, and a former president of the Book Club of Washington. She is a member of the Guild of Bookworkers, the Puget Sound Book Artists Association, and the Book Arts Guild. Fenton has pursued painting and bookmaking full-time since her retirement from her position as the managing librarian for special collections at the Seattle Public Library.

Fenton, Jodee (illustrator). Oblong 24mo. 36(ff)., + 14 Japanese kozo-paper leaves painted on both sides in gouache, tempera, watercolor, and polyacrylic varnish. From an edition of thirty copies, this is one of ten bound in half leather with decorative paper over boards. Each copy in the edition contains unique paintings by Jodee Fenton. These, distributed throughout as full leaves, cutouts, and paste-downs, encourage a new perspective on Yeats' seminal poem. Originally composed as a reaction to the pain of the early twentieth century-the aftermath of the First World War, the onset of the Irish War of Independence, and the 1918-1919 flu pandemic-Yeats' verses use apocalyptic allegory to capture the fear, brutality, and destruction of the era. Here, Fenton presents the poem as a series of images, mirrored on both sides of each painted sheet, and verses, broken apart by line and by word. The arrangement thus asks the reader to pause and draws insistent parallels between Yeats' time, with its nationalism, anarchy, and destruction, and today. Top edge red-orange. Fine, in clamshell box. Prospectus laid in.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. A remarkably bright first printing-in the scarce original dust jacket-of one of W.B. Yeats's (1865-1939) most important poetry collections. One of only 400 printed. Michael Robartes and the Dancer includes the first book printing of some of Yeats's most famous poems, including "The Second Coming," "Easter, 1916," and "A Prayer for My Daughter." The book was printed and published by Yeats's sister, Elizabeth Corbet Yeats, and, according to its colophon, was completed on All Soul's Day (November 1st) 1920-although Wade (a Yeats editor and bibliographer) claims the book was not actually published until February 1921. Elizabeth Corbet Yeats founded the Cuala Press in 1908 with assistance from her brother after training as a printer at the Women's Printing Society in London. The Cuala Press was unique for being the only press managed and staffed by women, and because it printed new works as opposed to classics. The press would publish works by W.B. Yeats, Lady Gregory, and other poets influential in the Celtic Revival movement of the early twentieth century, and would publish over seventy titles before closing in 1946. Among those titles was Michael Robartes and the Dancer, which include poems preoccupied with the themes of sexuality and politics, and poems now deemed to be among Yeats's most consequential, including "The Second Coming," "Easter, 1916," and "A Prayer for My Daughter," most of which had previously appeared in The Nation and The Dial. An exceptionally scarce and bright copy of this important collection by a modern great-and the first book printing of one of the most widely quoted poems of the twentieth century: The Second Coming Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. Surely some revelation is at hand; Surely the Second Coming is at hand. The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert A shape with lion body and the head of a man, A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun, Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds. The darkness drops again; but now I know That twenty centuries of stony sleep Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born? Octavo. Original blue paper boards with buff linen spine. All edges untrimmed. In the original plain tan dust jacket, preserved in glassine wrap, with chipping to dust jacket (particularly to spine). Preserved in a custom clamshell box. A brilliant first printing of this monumental work in the exceedingly rare original dust jacket. First edition, first printing. One of only 400 printed.