Irish literature, poetry, ephemera, Irish-related
[Trinity College, Cambridge]: Oasis, November, 1951. Tan printed wrappers, stapled. 16 pp. Minimally bothered at edges, a very good copy overall. First edition. A popular college periodical that was created to encourage poetic activity in Cambridge and elsewhere by hosting a poetry competition and encouraging unsolicited manuscripts. The sketch of.....
[N.p., but San Francisco]: Arion Press, 1991. Large octavo. Red card wrappers, string-bound. 20 pp. First edition, limited to 350 copies. Fine. Yeats's Paradises is a lecture “delivered by the author at the University Art Museum, UC Berkeley, on 12 October, 1990, upon the occasion of the opening of an exhibition.....
Stratford-Upon-Avon: Shakespeare Head Press, 1911. Original grey wrappers, printed in black, string bound. 19.5 x13 cm. 15,[1] pp. Final unnumbered page lists "The Works of W. B. Yeats." Third separate theatre edition. A tight, bright copy of the play; very good or better. WADE 63.
Stratford-Upon-Avon: Shakespeare Head Press, 1911. Original grey wrappers, printed in black, string bound. 19.5 x13 cm. 16 pp. First and only separate theatre edition. "The Green Helmet" is a play in verse that is part of a five play cycle based upon the Irish hero Cuchulain. First published by Cuala.....
London: Macmillan and Co., 1937. Light green card wrappers, sewn, printed in black. [2],65-114 pp. Light use at edges, else near fine. First separate Macmillan printing, based on the text as printed in the 1922 PLAYS IN PROSE AND VERSE. One of one thousand copies printed. WADE 189. OCLC: 5857165.....
London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd., 1922. First edition. Original parchment-like wrappers, lettered in green on upper wrapper and on spine, over plain wrappers. iv,64 pp. First edition, published 21 November 1922 in an edition of 1000 copies printed. The original owners seem to have made an outer protective dust wrapper.....
Cork / Oxford: Cork University Press / B. H. Blackwell, Ltd., 1947. Blue card wrappers, printed in black, sewn. 22pp. First edition. Foreword by Denis Gwynn, includes the text of George Russell's (A.E.) previously unpublished letter of protest to Yeats, as well as other matter pertaining to the Davis Centenary.....
London: Elkin Mathews, 1904. First trade edition. Blue wrappers, printed and decorated in black. [6],7-60,iv pp. Five pages of publisher's advertisements, two leaves that carry on to the verso of lower wrap. Text tanned as usual, tiny nick at crown of spine, many pages unopened; an unusually nice copy, near.....