YEATS, WILLIAM BUTLER | A Group of Four First Editions

The Property of a Gentleman

YEATS, WILLIAM BUTLER

A Group of Four First Editions

Stories of Red Hanrahan. Dundrum [Dublin]: The Dun Emer Press, 1904. 8vo (5 5/8 x 8 1/4 in; 143 x 209 mm). Printed in red and black, woodcut tailpiece to table of contents. Light blue paper covered boards, cream linen spine, paper labels to upper cover and spine, blue endpapers, glassine dustjacket; spine just sunned, minor chips to lower edge of jacket. First edition, one of 500 copies. Wade 59. Eleanor and Fred Reid (bookplate designed by Jack B. Yeats, depicting Pegasus to front pastedown) — "Alterations in 'Deirdre'." [No Place]: November 1908. 4pp (5 x 7 1/2 in.; 125 x 190 mm). First and only edition, printed for insertion in published copies of the play. Wade 70 — The Green Helmet and Other Poems. New York and London: Macmillan & Co., 1912. 8vo (5 x 7 1/2 in.; 130 x 190 mm). Half-title. Tan paper covered boards, upper boards decoratively stamped in green and blind; some rubbing to lower third of spine. First edition. Wade 101. Deaccessioned from University of Oregon — Dramatis Personae. [No Place]: Macmillan & Co. Ltd. 1936. 8vo (5 5/8 x 8 5/8 in.; 144 x 218 mm). Half-title; minor toning. Quarter cream linen spine over decoratively patterned paper covered boards, spine gilt lettered; boards toned, some rubbing to extremities, some sunning and soiling to spine, Dublin Bookshop stamp to front free endpaper, foxing to endleaves and edges. First edition, one of 2000 copies printed. Wade 187. Anne Yeats (pencil note to front free endpaper)

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A fine group of first editions