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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. 

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1933. Hardcover. Sm 8vo (7.75 x 5.25"), orig. blind-stamped blue cloth. ix, 101, [1] pp. In dust jacket. CONDITION: Near fine, front pastedown and ffep toned, bookplate in upper left corner of front pastedown reading "From the Irish Books of Proinnsias O Brian" (Francis O'Brien, the esteemed antiquarian bookseller of Portland Maine); both corners of front flap of dust jacket clipped and flap re-priced "$2.50" with stamp, spine of jacket toned to brown. First American trade edition. Includes such notable works as Dialogue of Self and Soul, Byzantium, and After Long Silence.

New York: Universe Books, 1982. Hardcover in dj. 8vo (9.5" x 6.75"), turquoise cloth. 304 pp. Over 100 b&w illus. CONDITION: Fine with fine dj.

Oberlin, Kansas: Press of the St. Francis Herald, 1909. Oblong 24mo 6" x 9", pictorial blue wrappers. [48] pp., with 8 pp. text, 2 pp. ads and 40 illus. from photos, including 1 foldout (39" x 6") with panorama on one side and multiple illus. on the other. Early inscription on front free endpaper: "Mr David Roberts St. Francis kansas. Mr. H. B. Ball P.S." CONDITION: Good, light 1.5" damp stain to back wrapper, significant separation along panorama folds, clean interior. A rare and richly illustrated promotional booklet covering the thriving communities in St. Francis and Bird City, Kansas and touting the opportunities awaiting prospective settlers. It begins with an overview of Cheyenne County and its history, covering the County's natural resources, land, industries, water supply, the "underflow" watering the western prairies, noted companies, climate, wheat (a staple crop), stock raising, the sugar beet industry, broom corn, religious institutions, schools, "representative citizens" (H. B. Bear… Read More