Lot 195
Yeats, William Butler, a collection of 6 volumes
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photography
Auction: 11 January 2017 at 11:00 GMT
Description
Plays for an Irish Theatre. London & Stratford-upon-Avon: A.H. Bullen, 1911. 8vo., 4 plates by Gordon Craig with tissue guards, original cloth, uncut, front free endpaper is missing; [Idem] The King of the Great Clock Tower. Commentaries and Poems. Dublin: Cuala Press, 1934. First edition, 4to., 1 of 400 copies, original cloth, some light spotting around the margins; [Idem] The Tower. London: Macmillan and Co., 1928. First edition, 8vo., original full gilt calf, bookplate of Milton McC. Gatch on paste-down endpaper; [Idem] Wheels and Butterflies. London: Macmillan and Co., 1934. 8vo., original green gilt cloth and dust jacket; [Idem] Per Amica Silentia Lunae. London: Macmillan and Co., 1918. First edition, 8vo., 1 of 1500 copies, original blue gilt cloth with dust jacket; [Idem] Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry. London: Walter Scott, 1888. 8vo., original red cloth gilt (6)