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[New Haven: The Author, 1965].. [4],140 leaves. Quarto. Mimeographed typescript, printed on rectos only. Inserted photo frontis. Clampbound in textured paper over board binder. Wear to toe of spine of binder, glue affixing the frontis has dried out, otherwise very good or better. A privileged typescript of the first draft of this translation into English by Kenneth Dean Butler of Mazakazu Yamazaki's most widely known play. Performed in Japan by the Haiyüza (Actors Guild) in a number of cities during 1963-4, the play earned for its author the Kishida Prize for Drama in 1963. Yamazaki studied and taught at Yale from 1965 to 1967, and this translation was undertaken, almost assuredly with the author's assistance, by Kenneth D. Butler, then Assistant Professor of Japanese at Yale and later Director of the Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies. This typescript is inscribed on the title leaf to another Yale colleague by the author: "To Professor Norman Holmes Pearson with my deepest… Read More

New York, August 1927.. LXXXIII:2. Printed wrapper. Plates. About fine. First U.S. publication of this key poem, appearing concurrent with its publication in THE LONDON MERCURY. Other contributors include Derain, Eglinton, Cummings, Gropper, A. Gregory, Colum, Aiken, Cowley, et al. WADE, p.384.

New York & Greenwich, September 1922.. LXXIII:3. Large octavo. Printed wrapper. Plates. Unusually nice, near fine. The penultimate segment of this serialization (from May to October), in company with Gropper, Spingarn, Matisse, Frank, Eliot, Pound, Mortimer, Seldes, Burke, et al. WADE, p.381.

London: A.H Bullen, 1906.. 15,[1]pp. Small octavo (17.3 x 12 cm). Sewn printed wrapper. Fine, as often. First theatre edition, preceded by the 1902 Caradoc Press printing and its appearance in the collective New York edition of THE HOUR- GLASS AND OTHER PLAYS. WADE 62.

New York & Camden, September 1924.. LXXVII:3. Printed wrapper. Plates. Fine. Yeats's extended account of his trip to accept his Nobel Prize appeared concurrently in the September issue of THE LONDON MERCURY. Other contributors include Duncan Grant, Hillyer, Muir, Jack Yeats, Morand, Marianne Moore, Seurat, et al. WADE, p.382.

New York, April 1928.. LXXXIV:4. Printed wrapper. Plates. About fine. This prose work appeared in THE LONDON MERCURY the same month, and was issued in book form by the Cuala Press in June. Other contributors include Picasso, L. Powys, Colum, Eglinton, Aiken, et al. WADE, p.383.

New York & Camden, November 1926.. LXXXI:5. Printed wrapper. Plates. Fine. The first American appearance of Yeats's prose piece, also published in the October and November issues of THE LONDON MERCURY. Thomas Mann's splendid short story was translated by Herman George Scheffauer. Other contributors include Fry, Morand, Dos Passos, Foujita, Cezanne, Eglinton, et al. WADE, p.383.

Dublin: The Cuala Press, 1925.. Linen and boards, paper spine label. Spine a trace soiled, typical slight tanning of endsheets, neatly deaccessioned special collections duplicate, with small release stamp on verso of title and bookplate on rear pastedown with withdrawal stamp. First Irish edition, and first edition under this title, with some material added to the text of the 1924 Swedish edition. One of 400 copies printed. With the attractive bookplate of Violet Leconfield on the front pastedown. WADE 146.

New York, September 1921.. LXXI:3. Printed wrappers. Plates. Small mended nick to spine, otherwise near fine. The first periodical appearance of Yeats's poem (later titled "Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen"), in company with work by Croce, Deutsch, Pascin, Morand, Weber, Loving, Cuthbert Wright, Anderson, Susan Mitchell, Cowley, et al. WADE, p.381.

New York & Greenwich, July 1922.. LXXIII:1. Large octavo. Printed wrapper. Plates. Some corners creased, otherwise unusually nice, near fine. The third installment of this serialization (from May to October), in company with Matisse, Chagall, Boardman Robinson, Bunin, Loy ("Apology of Genius"), Stevens ("Revue," including the first appearance of "The Emperor of Ice-Cream"), Eliot, Dos Passos, Seldes, Cowley, et al. WADE, p.381. EDELSTEIN C71.

New York & Greenwich, January 1923.. LXXIV:1. Large octavo. Printed wrapper. Plates. Minor shelf-soiling to the bottom edges, otherwise unusually nice, near fine. This suite of seven poems appeared concurrently in the January issue of THE LONDON MERCURY. Other contributors include Cummings, Anderson, Mann, Pound, Russell, Burke, et al. WADE, p.381.

Camden & New York, February 1926.. LXXX:2. Printed wrapper. Unusually nice, near fine. The first appearance of this prose piece, reprinted under the title "Our Need for Religious Sincerity," in the April issue of THE CRITERION. With other contributions by Matisse, J. C. Powys, Kreymborg, M. Moore, Mitchell, et al. WADE, p.383.

New York & Camden, July 1924.. LXXVII:1. Large octavo. Printed wrapper. Unusually nice, near fine. Yeats's play appeared concurrently in the July issue of THE CRITERION. Stevens's poem was collected in the 1931 second edition of HARMONIUM. Other contributors include Munch, Gorki, Sandburg, Powys, Mortimer, Morand, E. Wilson, et al. WADE, p.382. EDELSTEIN C78.

New York, October 1922.. LXXIII:4. Printed wrappers. Short snag at toe of spine, otherwise unusually nice, near fine. The conclusion of this serialization (from May to October), in company with Anderson ("Many Marriages"), Aldington, Fry, Lowell, Bragdon, Cowley, et al. WADE, p.381.

Council Bluffs, IA: The Yellow Barn Press, 2001.. Small folio (32.5 x 23 cm). Half black morocco and decorated paper boards. Illustrated with photographs, facsimiles, wood-engravings, etc. Fine in clamshell case, with original prospectus laid in. First edition. One of 175 numbered copies designed and printed by Neil Shaver in Monotype Perpetua set by the Bixlers on Zerkal paper. A substantial number of the illustrations are wood-engravings by John De Pol. A few items of ephemera are either laid in, or bound in (as issued).

Council Bluffs, IA: Yellow Barn Press, 1999.. Small quarto (24 X 16.5 cm). Decorated brocade over boards, printed labels. Portraits. Facsimile. Fine. First edition, ordinary issue. One of 116 copies thus from a total edition of 150 copies printed on dampened Frankfurt Cream paper. The remaining 34 copies included actual specimen leaves as examples of both subjects' work,

London: Printed for J. Roberts, 1731.. [4],viii,48pp. Octavo. Extracted from nonce pamphlet volume. Terminal signature G neatly detached, otherwise a very good copy, with the half- title. First edition, of a sort, as ESTC indicates that "copies are made up with sheets of at least two impressions and at least two editions randomly mixed." THE CRAFTSMAN was an anti-Whig British newspaper which operated from 1726 to 1752. Established by Lord Bolingbroke and William Pulteney, it was edited by Nicholas Amhurst under the pseudonym "Caleb D'Anvers." Yonge was an advocate of Walpole and was consequently appointed commissioner of the Treasury in 1724. This is his widely circulated sortie on the Whig side into an extended pamphlet controversy over the paper's attacks. Kress attributes the extended dedication to Baron Hervey. ESTC T47414. KRESS S3387.

Port Townsend, WA: Graywolf Press, [1975].. Large octavo. Sewn printed wrapper. Spine a trace sunned, otherwise fine. First edition of the Lakotah poet's first book, limited to 225 copies printed in Kennerley type on Curtis papers, published in Graywolf Pamphlet Series I. Sixty copies were to be signed by the author. This copy is signed by him at the conclusion of his poem, but not numbered.

New York, 1963.. Whole number six. Quarto. Mimeographed typescript on blue stock, stapled and formerly folded for mailing. Postal address effaced, shirt snag in one upper margin, very good. Edited by George Montgomery and Erik Kiviat. An uncommon newsletter for exchange of work and opinion among friends and fellow poets, published in association with BLUEBEAT. Contributors to this number include Crews, Katzman, Blackburn, Berge, Randall, et al. Cited by Clay & Phillips with an abbreviated entry in the online revision.

New York, 1963.. Whole numbers five through seven. Three issues. Quarto. Mimeographed typescript, stapled and formerly folded for mailing. Postal addressing (one to Ted Wilentz), very good. Edited by George Montgomery and Erik Kiviat. An uncommon newsletter for exchange of work and opinion among friends and fellow poets, published in association with BLUEBEAT. Contributors to these numbers include Micheline, Mead, Kandel, Szabo, Malanga, Crews, Katzman, Blackburn, Berge, Owens, Randall, Jones, Berrigan, Padgett. et al. Cited by Clay & Phillips with an abbreviated entry in the online revision.