Yeats (W.B.) Plays and Controversies
£525
London, Macmillan, 1923.
First edition, first impression. 8vo. Original green blind-tooled cloth after design by Charles Ricketts, lettered in gilt to spine. Dust-jacket, priced 10/6.
Gathering Yeats’ major prose writings on the Irish dramatic movement alongside six plays including ‘The Countess Cathleen’, ‘The Land of Heart’s Desire’, and the Four Plays for Dancers (‘At the Hawk’s Well’, ‘The Only Jealousy of Emer’, ‘The Dreaming of the Bones’, and ‘Calvary’).
In stock
Minor toning to endpapers, occasional spotting to extremities; cloth excellent; jacket with minor creasing to extremities, but really an excellent example.
Frontispiece portrait.
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