Letters to the New Island
Yeats, William Butler [Edited by Horace Reynolds] T. Sturge Moore and H. M. Paget. [William Butler Yeats (13 June 1865 - 28 January 1939) was an Irish poet and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. A pillar of both the Irish and British literary establishments, he helped to found the Abbey Theatre, and in his later years served as a Senator of the Irish Free State for two terms. He was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival along with Lady Gregory, Edward Martyn and others].
(Book #ID 95140)
Published by Harvard University Press, 5 Randall Hall, Cambridge, Massachusetts First Edition 1934. 1934.
First edition hard back binding in publisher's original illustrated green cloth designed by T. Sturge Moore, black title and author lettering to the spine and to the front cover. 8vo. 7½'' x 5¼''. Contains xiii, [3], 222 printed pages of text with tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of Yeats at the age of 23, from a portrait by H. M. Paget. Fine condition book in Very Good condition dust wrapper with slither of paper missing to the top front gutter, not price clipped, $2.50. Dust wrapper supplied in archive acetate film protection, it does not adhere to the book or to the dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A.
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