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Elkin Mathews, London., [1902]. First edition. Quarto. pp [16] + 7 plates, [2] adverts. Original blue pictorial wrappers. A play for the miniature stage. The seven woodcut plates and the cover illustration are all hand-coloured by the author. On the front cover is printed the statement, ''coloured by the author'', but in fact by far the greater number of copies were issued with no colouring.Spine split which means the covers have separated. Very good. All plates clean and bright.

Victor Waddington, London., 1975. First edition. Square octavo. Unpaginated. Twenty colour reproductions. Card wrappers. Exhibition catalogue.Fine.

Elkin Mathews, London., [1905]. First edition. Issued in the Satchel Series. 12mo. 88 pages. 13 black-and-white illustrations by Jack B. Yeats. With a Prefatory Memoir and Notes by John Masefield. Original grey wrappers. Prelims and edges spotted. Very good.

The Cuala Press, Dublin., 1971. First edition. Small quarto. One of 300 copies. Introduction by Anne Yeats. Title-page and 8 full-page illustrations by Jack B. Yeats, all of which have been hand-coloured. Full blue linen with pictorial title-label on upper cover. The illustrations date from 1909-10. Fine. No dustwrapper issued.

Jonathan Cape, London., 1933. First edition. Octavo. 157 pages. Illustrated by the author.Covers slightly darkened at the spine and edges. Very good in very good dustwrapper, designed by the author, nicked, chipped and and bit stained at bottom edge and slightly darkened at the spine.

Victor Waddington, London., 1973. First edition. Square octavo. Unpaginated. Twenty-four colour reproductions. Card wrappers. Exhibition catalogue.Front cover partially darkened, otherwise fine.

A.H. Bullen, London., 1913. Second impression. Octavo. pp xvi, 226. Seven plays, followed by one appendix (''Acting Version of The Shadowy Waters'') and ten pages of notes. Four black and white plates by Edward Gordon Craig. Printed by A.H. Bullen at The Shakespeare Head Press. Later binding of half black leather with tan leather title labels, cloth boards. From the library of noted collector Allen Freer with his bookplate on front pastedown. Very near fine.

Macmillan, London., 1934. First edition. Octavo. pp vi, 617. Tissue-guarded frontispiece reproduction of a charcoal drawing of the author by John Singer Sargent. Original maroon cloth lettered in gilt and decorated in blind on spine. Top edge gilt. Twenty-one plays. One page Preface by the author. Contemporary (1938) gift on front free endpaper; the inscription is to a Mr A.C. Hills in gratitude for his production at Queen Elizabeth's Hospital, Bristol, of Shaw's Androcles and the Lion. The two-page programme for the production is laid in. Fore-edge of page227 slightly torn. Near fine in very good indeed dustwrapper a bit darkened at the spine and slightly creased at the edges.

Oxford at the Clarendon Press., 1936. First reprint. Octavo. pp xlviii, 450. Yeats's Introduction runs to 38 pages. Blue buckram covers, top edge gilt.Presentation copy from one of the contributors, inscribed by him on the front free endpaper: ''Jeff - a between-time present from John Drinkwater. January 1937.'' The recipient is W. Gwyn Jeffreys, the woman who worked as Drinkwater's secretary for 17 years. Yeats chooses two of his poems: ''Moonlit Apples'' and ''Who were before me''.Four small dents to front cover, otherwise fine in very good, slightly nicked dustwrapper with small scuffs to front panel.

Macmillan, London., 1919. First trade edition, enlarged and with a new Preface by the author. Originally published in an edition of 400 copies by the Cuala Press. Octavo. pp x, 115. Gilt cover design by T. Sturge Moore.Two gift inscriptions on front free endpaper. Covers bumped at bottom corners. Head and tail of spine slightly rubbed. Very good. No dustwrapper.

T. Fisher Unwin, London., 1891. First edition. Issued in Pseudonym Library series. There were two formats: clothbound and in wrappers. This is the much scarcer wrappered issue. Narrow octavo. pp [ii], 195. Two stories; the author soon gave up on prose fiction..Spine creased. Head and tail of spine scuffed. Covers creased at the edges and dusty. Very good. Preserved in a custom-made sturdy card box.

Macmillan, London., 1918. First edition. Octavo. 95 pages. 1500 copies were printed. Original blue cloth. Cover design in gilt by T. Sturge Moore.Slight spotting of prelims. Near fine in the scarce dustwrapper which is very good, chipped at edges, darkened and rubbed at the spine with some minor loss to three letters in the title.

The Cuala Press, Dublin., 1941. First edition. Octavo. pp [xii], 85. Linen backed boards. One of 500 copies. Three page Prefatory Note by Clifford Bax. Forty-one pages of letters from W.B. Yeats to Florence Farr. This section is introduced by George Yeats. Forty-one pages of letters from Bernard Shaw to Florence Farr - this section is introduced by Shaw himself.On the front pastedown is the bookplate of Richard Martin Baxter. One the front free endpaper he has pasted three small cuttings from booksellers' catalogues. Some faint fading to the edges of the covers. Very good indeed.

Alan Swallow, Denver., 1960. First edition. Octavo. 24 pages. Wrappers. Double-column text. Swallow Pamphlets number 10.Staples rusted. Small mark to front cover. Very good indeed.

Dublin. August,, 1924. First edition. The first issue of a magazine which survived for only one more. 8-page broadsheet. Includes Yeats' ''Leda and the Swan''.Folded once. Trace of damp to spine. Very good.

Elkin Mathews, then Elkin Mathews and John Lane, London., 1892;1894. First editions. Small octavo. Two volumes: pp xvi, 94; xvi, 136. At the rear of the second volume is a 16-page publishers' catalogue dated 1894. As well as Yeats, contributors include Ernest Dowson, Lionel Johnson, Richard Le Gallienne, Victor Plarr, Ernest Rhys, Arthur Symons, et al. These were the Club's only anthologies, printed in editions of 450 and 650 respectively. It continued to hold its informal meetings, with a somewhat opaque membership, until 1904.First volume: short tear to fore-edge of title-page; free endpapers lightly tanned; spine label a bit dull; very good in the original glassine dustwrapper which is torn and chipped. Second volume: on the front pastedown is the bookplate of Patricia Milne Henderson; very good indeed; no dustwrapper.

The Mercier Press, Cork., 1965. First edition. Octavo. pp 94. [2] adverts. Wrappers - there was no hardbound issue. The Thomas Davis Lectures broadcast on Radio Éireann to celebrate the centenary of the poet's birth in 1965. The five contributors are: Padraic Colum, Francis Stuart, Monk Gibbon, Earnan de Blaghd and Austin Clarke.Fine.

Macmillan, London., 1926. First edition. Octavo. pp viii, 477. Tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of Yeats by his father, J.B. Yeats; tissue-guarded colour plate "Memory Harbour" by Jack B. Yeats, tissue-guarded drawings of Mrs Yeats and himself by J.B. Yeats; tissue-guarded portrait of Yeats by Charles Shannon. Original green cloth lettered in gilt and decorated in blind with a design by Charles Ricketts. Pages unopened.Small ownership signature on front free endpaper. Free endpapers and fore-edge a little spotted. A lovely copy in near fine dustwrapper, repeating the cover design, just a little rubbed at edges.

Methuen, London., 1900. Fourth edition. Octavo. pp xxxii, 257, [1] advert. Original green cloth. Poems by James Clarence Mangan, Samuel Fergusson, Oscar Wilde, Douglas Hyde, A.E., Lionel Johnson and many others by, though none by Yeats himself.Gift inscription on front free endpaper. Slight rubbing and bruising at tail of spine. Very good indeed. No dustwrapper.

Elkin Mathews, then Elkin Mathews and John Lane, London., 1892;1894. First editions, these being the large paper copies, 50 of which were printed for the first volume and 70 for the second. Octavo. Two volumes: pp xvi, 94; xvi, 136. Period bindings of full red morocco with raised bands, that of the first volume being by Bickers and the second by Morell (despite which, they match perfectly). As well as Yeats, contributors include Ernest Dowson, Lionel Johnson, Richard Le Gallienne, Victor Plarr, Ernest Rhys, Arthur Symons, et al. These were the Club's only anthologies. It continued to hold its informal meetings, with a somewhat opaque membership, until 1904.On each front pastedown is the pictorial bookplate of Edward S. Sullivan. Some foxing to prelims and a little surface abrasion to covers. A very good set indeed, and scarce in the large paper issue.