A Packet for Ezra Pound by Yeats, William Butler - 1929

ex-lib with stamps and pocket, previous owners bookplate, library stamp,embossed pg1. book has been ready many times. weak inner spine. dinged spine corners top and bottom no writing, no underling, no mars pages clean. Bold printing . letters and poems to pound

Shannon: Irish University Press/T.M. MacGlinchey, 1970. . Facsimile reprint of the Cuala Press edition of 1929, 8vo., pp.(iv),38,(i), quarter oatmeal cloth, blue paper-covered boards lettered in black, with plain translucent paper jacket; owner’s neat nameplate to upper margin of front paste-down endpaper, else fine.

Ireland: Irish University Press, 1970. High quality 1970 facimile reprint of the 1929 original by the Cuala Press in Dublin. Blue hardcover with tan cloth spine, translucent dustjacket. The book is in very good condition with some foxing to the tan spine, good hinges, firm text block, very clean pages, no names or other markings. The dustajcket has some edgewear and very minor chipping, little paper loss.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Dublin: The Cuala Press / Elizabeth Corbet Yeats. G: in good condition without dust jacket in clear protective wraps. Cover rubbed and marked. Partial browning to eps. Inner hinge cracking. Sporadic light foxing. Some page uncut. 1929. Limited Edition [of 425 copies]. Cream cloth spine on pale blue paper-covered boards. 220mm x 150mm (9" x 6"). 39pp. .

Dublin: The Cuala Press, 1929. Yeats and Pound, although separated by differences in their age, temperament, and career status, had lived together in England. A story in the NY Times (1988) reported "The situation at Stone Cottage is unmatched in literary history: two of the greatest poets of the 20th century - and two poets so different in temperament - living in excruciatingly close quarters for months at a time." Pound would describe the scene in his Cantos: "I recalled the noise in the chimney as it were the wind in the chimney but was in reality Uncle William downstairs composing . . . at Stone Cottage in Sussex by the waste moor." This is a Very Good copy of the First Edition, which was printed by Elizabeth Yeats at her Cuala Press (successor to Dun Emer) in an edition LIMITED to 425 copies. Blue-gray paper-covered binding; linen spine with a paper-label. Clean text; 38 pages. Has the mis-printed Roman date on the Title Page. There is a faint previous-owner signature and… Read More

Dublin, Ireland: The Cuala Press, 1929. First edition, limited to 425 copies "on paper made in Ireland and published by Elizabeth Corbet Yeats at the Cuala Press. Woodcut title device by T. Sturge Moore. viii, 48 pp. 8vo. Linen spine, publisher's printed paper spine label, paper-covered boards. Spine and spine label lightly tanned, with small, light brown soil mark on lower spine, else a near fine, unopened copy. Bookplate of Claude Smith. First edition, limited to 425 copies "on paper made in Ireland and published by Elizabeth Corbet Yeats at the Cuala Press" Woodcut title device by T. Sturge Moore. viii, 48 pp. 8vo. The printer, Elizabeth Corbet Yeats (1868-1940), was the daughter of Irish artist, John Butler Yeats, and sister of W. B., Jack and Susan Yeats. She was a member of William Morris' circle in London before her family returned to Dublin in 1900. She worked with Morris on the Kelmscott Press, and studied printing with the Women's Printing Society in London. She accepted the invitation to… Read More