Search Results: New Poems by W B Yeats

Irish Academic Pr, 1970. hardcover. Very Good. 0x0x0. Dublin, 1970; reprint of 1938 edition; blue paper covered boards; tan cloth spine; mild edge and corner wear; discoloration at foot of spine; plain cover as jacket; 8vo, 7 3/4" to 9 3/4" tall; interior is clean and unmarked; 39 pages

Dublin, The Cuala Press, 1938. . First edition, one of 450 copies; 8vo; minor age-toning, else unmarked internally, partly unopened; publisher's cloth-backed blue boards, paper label to spine printed in black, black lettering to upper cover, blue endpapers, spine label slightly rubbed costing some letters, cloth slightly marked, some rubbing to extremities, else very good. One of 450 copies, printed at the Cuala Press.The Cuala Press originally started out as the Dun Emer Press in 1903, founded by Evelyn Gleeson. Influenced by the Gaelic revival occurring in Ireland, it promoted Ireland's cultural heritage, while at the same time training women to work in a useful trade. Eventually the two sisters of W.B. Yeats took over the press, continuing Gleeson's work, and renaming it The Cuala Press in 1908.

Dublin: The Cuala Press, 1938. Hardcover. Sm 8vo (8.5" x 6"), half cream cloth, blue paper boards, with paper-stamp title on spine. iv, 39 pp., with four pp. of sheet music printed at end. Inscribed "Elizabeth Parker" in pencil on ffep and bookplate of Wyman Parker on front pastedown. CONDITION: Very good, nick to spine-edge of paper on rear cover, bit of rubbing to spine label slightly affecting lettering. First edition. One of 450 copies, "finished on the last day of Spring April the ninth, in the year nineteen hundred and thirty eight," and purchased by previous owner at "the Cuala Press, June 9, 1938, for a gift for Mother."  Wyman Parker was a librarian at Wesleyan University, librarian at the Bread Loaf School of English, and a collector of fine press books. 

Dublin: The Cuala Press, 1938. FIRST EDITION. A fine copy (minute rubbing to spine label). One of 450 copies.