Lot 236
Cuala Press - Bowen, Elizabeth
Rare Books, Maps & Manuscripts
Auction: 4 September 2013 at 12:00 BST
Description
Seven winters. Dublin: The Cuala Press, 1942. First edition, 8vo, original quarter linen, brown paper boards, uncut and unopened, no 127 of 450 copies. (Miller 71); Yeats, Jack B. La La Noo. Dublin: The Cuala Press, 1943. First edition, 8vo, original quarter linen, yellow paper boards, uncut, covers a liitle discoloured, 450 copies were printed with a list of Cuala Press publications at the end, this is numbered as "Out of series." (Miller 72); O'Connor, Frank A picture book: illustrated by Elizabeth Rivers. Dublin: The Cuala Press, 1943. First edition, 8vo, illustrations, original quarter linen, brown paper boards, uncut, with a list of Cuala Press publications at the end, no 60 of 450 (Miller 73); Gwylym, Dafydd ap. Selected poems: translated by Nigel Heseltine, with a preface by Frank O'Connor. Dublin: The Cuala Press, 1944. First edition, 8vo, woodcut device on title-page, original quarter linen, pale grey boards, uncut, edges rubbed, no. 114 of 450 (Miller74); Yeats, W.B. Pages from a diary written in nineteen hundred and thirty. Dublin: The Cuala Press, 1944. First edition, 8vo, woodcut device on titlepage, original quarter linen, yellow boards, uncut, edges rubbed, inscription in upper corner of front pastedown, no. 51 of 250 copies (Miller 75); Hutton, Annie The love story of Thomas Davis told in the letters of Annie Hutton; edited with an introduction by Joseph Hone. Dublin: The Cuala Press, 1945. First edition, 8vo, woodcut device on title-page, with errata slip between pp. VIII & IX, original quarter linen, ivory coloured boards, uncut, edges rubbed, corners knocked, no. 145 of 280 copies (Miller 76); Rivers, Elizabeth Stranger in Aran written and illustrated by Elizabeth Rivers. Dublin: The Cuala Press, 1946. First edition, 8vo, woodcut vignette, illustrations including 4 hand coloured, original quarter linen, ivory coloured boards, uncut, edges rubbed, corners knocked, 280 copies of which this is numbered "Out of series" (Miller 77) (7)
Footnote
Provenance: From the collection of Bruce Ritchie.