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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Macmillan, London., 1934. First edition. Octavo. pp ix, 181 Original green gilt decorated cloth. Four plays and a musical score by George Antheil for "Fighting the Waves". Ownership signature on front free endpaper. Fine in very good, slightly nicked dustwrapper a bit darkened at the spine and with a closed tear about two-thirds of the way down the spine.

A.H. Bullen, London and Stratford-upon-Avon., 1913. First edition thus. First published in 1897 under the title The Secret Rose, the present volume follows the revised version from Volume VII of the Collected Works (1908). Octavo. pp [viii], 228. Cloth-backed boards. Free endpapers tanned. Very good.

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.

Macmillan, London., 1965. Reprint of the second edition. Octavo. pp xvii, 565. From the library of Richard Strachey with his armorial bookplate on the front pastedown and his Oxford address written on the front free endpaper. Richard was Lytton Strachey's favourite nephew. Very good in good, slightly nicked and creased dustwrapper defective at head of spine.

Cork University Press, Cork., 1947. First edition. Octavo. 22 pages. Sewn wrappers. Seven-page introduction by Denis Gwynn. Eight-page tribute by W.B. Yeats. Three-page previously unpublished letter to W.B. Yeats from Geo. W. Russell (''A.E.'').Covers faintly tanned at the edges and slightly creased. Very good indeed.

Walter Scott, London., 1888. First edition. Issued in the Camelot Series. Ten-page introduction by Yeats. Small octavo. pp xx, 326. Six pages of adverts at rear. Red cloth decorated in black, gilt titles to spine.Dark spot (burn?) to fore-edge of front free endpaper and that of first four leaves. Some light spotting to endpapers. Very good.

''Form'', London., 1916. First edition. Quarto. pp [24]. Title-page, titles of poems, initials and full-page silhouette of a naked woman by Austin Osman Spare all printed in red. Wrappers. Out of a total edition of 200 copies this is one of 122 printed on Italian hand-made paper.Covers rubbed at the edges, splitting at the spine and spotted. Good. Housed in a custom-made clamshell cloth box with green morocco spine.

Macmillan, London., 1933. First edition. Octavo. pp x, 101. 2000 copies were printed. Cover design by T. Sturge Moore in blind on front cover and gilt on spine. Contains the "Crazy Jane" poems. With the erratum slip tipped in at p.85. Fine in near-fine dustwrapper, repeating the cover design, with a fingernal-size chip at the tail of the spine.

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.

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.

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.