Clearwater Books

W.B.YEATS. Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry. Edited and selected by W.B.Yeats. Walter Scott, ‘The Camelot Series’, London 1888. First edition, first state of Yeats’ second book preceded only by The Dublin University Review offprint pamphlet Mosada (1886). 8vo. 326pp + [vi] advertisements. The binding cocked, and the rear gutter splitting with two tears to the backstrip, and some chipping to the spine ends. Paper spine label tanned and chipped, and the corner tips rubbed. Some quite light spotting to the endpapers and a light crease to the first half-dozen leaves. Errata slip missing. Some spotting to the protruding edges of the fore- and bottom edges. An uncommon book but alas quite a poor copy, although really quite crisp and bright internally. No dust wrapper called for. Yeats contributes a ten-page introduction, nine introductory essays of varying length, a selection of notes, and his poems The Stolen Child and The Priest of Coloony. Wade 212 (binding 1). £75

W.B.YEATS. The Countess Kathleen and Various Legends and Lyrics. T.Fisher Unwin, ‘Cameo Series, London 1892. First edition, of which 500 copies were published, plus a further thirty deluxe examples. Small 8vo. 141pp. Parchment-backed paper-covered boards. With a tissue-protected frontispiece drawing by J.T.Nettleship. Some careful repair to the backstrip, and signs of moisture marking to the upper board and to the margins of three of four preliminary leaves. Free endpapers toned. Contemporary former owner details inked to the half-title, and a Dublin bookshop inkstamp to the base of the front free endpaper. Some occasional fox-spotting. A fair copy of the author’s most uncommon sixth book. A two-page preface precedes the title play (Yeats’ very first work in the medium) followed by twenty-three poems, seven of which are hitherto unprinted with the rest culled from various newspapers and periodicals, plus three pages of notes. Wade 6. £375

W.B.YEATS contributes A People’s Theatre (A Letter to Lady Gregory) to an issue of the periodical The Dial. Vol. 68, No. 4, April 1920. First edition. Tall 8vo. Card wrappers, lightly marked and dust soiled, with just a little rubbing and nicking to the yapped edges. And some chipping to the spine ends. A nice bright copy. £25

W.B.YEATS. John Butler Yeats. Early Memories. Some Chapters of Autobiography. With a three-page preface by W.B.Yeats. The Cuala Press, Dundrum 1923. First edition, limited to 500 copies. 8vo. 99pp. Linen-backed paper-covered boards lettered in black at the upper board with a tanned and very slightly chipped paper spine label. A trace of light wear and rubbing to several extremities. A touch of spotting and light uneven discolouration to the boards. Endpapers lightly browned and with a hint of toning and occasional very light spotting to the leaf margins. Former owner name and date inked in red to the front free endpaper. A nice bright copy. No dust wrapper called for. Wade 272. £95

W.B.YEATS contributes The Cat and the Moon. A Play for Dancers to an issue of the periodical The Dial. Vol. 77, No. 1, July 1924.  First edition. Tall 8vo. Card wrappers, lightly rubbed and chafed at the yapped edges. A very good copy. £15

W.B.YEATS. A Full Moon in March. Macmillan, London 1935. First edition (of which 2,000 copies were printed). 8vo. 69pp. Fore- and bottom edge untrimmed. A touch of quite light uneven discolouration to cloth and spine ends lightly rubbed. A very crisp and bright copy - particularly crisp internally. No dust wrapper. Two plays (A Full Moon in March and The King of the Great Clock Tower) and a selection of verse. Wade 182. £40

W.B.YEATS, J.H.Pollock ('An Pilibin'). William Butler Yeats. Duckworth, London / Talbot Press, Dublin 1935. First edition. Small 8vo. Covers just a little spotted in places and just beginning to lift. A bright copy. No jacket. Neat name of former owner. £10

W.B.YEATS. Special W.B.Yeats issue of the periodical A Review of English Literature. Vol. IV, no. 3. July 1963. 113pp. Card wrappers, in very good state. Includes a selection of newly discovered letters from Yeats to Lady Gregory and contributions from Jon Stallworthy and others. £10

W.B.YEATS. T.R.Henn. W.B.Yeats and the Poetry of War. The 1965 Warton Lecture on English Poetry. Oxford University Press, London 1965. First separate edition - this copy inscribed by the author on the front wrapper to poet and academic John Holloway: "J.H. with homage T.R.H.". Card wrappers, lightly handled and with two small stains. £20

W.B.YEATS. Sheelah Kirby. The Yeats Country. A Guide to Places in the West of Ireland associated with the Life and Writings of William Butler Yeats. Compiled by Sheelah Kirby. Edited by Patrick Gallagher and with drawings and maps by Ruth Brandt. The Dolmen Press, Dublin 1962. First edition – this copy inscribed by Sheelah Kirby on the title page and dated the year after publication. 8vo. 47pp. Decorated paper-covered boards. Map-illustrated endpapers. Some ink staining to a small area of the front pastedown. A very good copy in chipped dust wrapper with small portions of loss to tips of two corners and head of spine panel. £20

W.B.YEATS. Reflections. Transcribed from Yeats' journal of 1908-14 and edited by Curtis Bradford. The Cuala Press, Dublin 1970. First edition, limited to 500 numbered copies (and the first book issued by the newly re-started Cuala Press following a thirty-four-year hiatus). 8vo. 62pp. Cloth-backed paper-covered boards lettered in black at the upper board and with a paper spine label. Tips of two corners lightly knocked, else fine in original unprinted tissue protector, just a little chipped. £35

W.B.YEATS. Yeats and the Theatre. Edited by Robert O'Driscoll & Lorna Reynolds. Maclean-Hunter Press, 'Yeats Studies Series', Canada 1975. First edition. 288pp. With a frontispiece and 18 plates. Slight crease to spine, else a virtually fine copy in dust wrapper, tanned at spine panel and a little rubbed at some extremities and with just a tiny hint of foxing. £20

W.B.YEATS. A Classified Bibliography of Criticism. Including additions to Wade's "Bibliography of W.B.Yeats" and a Section on the Irish Literary and Dramatic Revival. Edited by K.P.S.Jochum. Dawson, London / [University of Illinois] 1978. First edition. 801pp. A little bowing to boards, else very good. Probably no jacket called for. (With nearly 8000 entries, including 350 additions to Wade). £15

MAUD GONNE. Samuel Levenson. Maud Gonne. A Biography. With photographs. Cassell, London 1977. First edition. 8vo. 436pp. Head and foot of spine slightly rubbed. A very nice copy in price-clipped dust wrapper, faded at spine panel. A biography of the English-born Irish revolutionary, feminist and actress, perhaps best remembered as the muse of W.B.Yeats. £15