Yeats, W B

Plays and Controversies; Essays; the Collected Plays of W.B. Yeats; Wheels and Butterflies; the Herne&Apos;S Egg and Other Plays

W. B. Yeats · 1923 · Rooke Books

£165.00 (€197.78 | $217.98 | ¥34,808)

London; New York , Macmillan and Co. 1923-1938. First edition. Cloth. Five works from renowned Irish poet and dramatist, W. B. Yeats, including one true first and three U.S. firsts. This set offers one true first edition, three first US editions and one new and revised US edit...

The Green Helmet, a Heroic Farce

W. B. Yeats · 1911 · Rooke Books

£235.00 (€281.68 | $310.45 | ¥49,575)

Stratford-Upon-Avon, Shakespeare Head Press, 1911 . First edition. Paperback. An attractive example of the first theatre edition of W. B. Yeats's entertaining short play in which three Irish heroes complete for the titular 'Green Helmet&apos. The 'first theatre ...

Spectator"S Gallery: Essays, Sketches, Short Stories & Poems

Peter Fleming; Derek Verschoyle [Eds.] G. K. Chesterton; T. S. Eliot; W. B. Yeats; E. M. Forster; Max Beerbohm; et al. · 1933 · Rooke Books

£195.00 (€233.74 | $257.61 | ¥41,137)

London, Jonathan Cape, 1933 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this anthology of The Spectator's literary contributions, featuring Chesterton, Eliot, Yeats, Greene and Huxley, complete with the original unclipped dust wrapper. In the publisher's original be...

(1961) the Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats; (1963) the Collected Plays of W.B. Yeats.

W. B. Yeats · 1961 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.90 | $92.47 | ¥14,767)

London, Macmillan & Co Ltd, 1961-63. Cloth. A smart, dust-wrapper-clad set of the poems and plays of significant Irish writer William Butler Yeats. Collection comprised of: (1961) The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats; (1963) The Collected Plays of W. B. Yeats.   Uniformly bound...

Sophocles&Apos; King Oedipus: A Version for the Modern Stage

W. B. Yeats · 1928 · Rooke Books

£35.00 (€41.95 | $46.24 | ¥7,383)

London, Macmillan and Co, 1928 . First edition. Paperback. The first edition of W. B. Yeats"s adaptation of Sophocles" 'Oedipus Rex', prepared specifically for performance at Dublin"s Abbey Theatre. The first edition of this work by W. B. Yeats. According to the pref...

The Player Queen

W. B. Yeats · 1922 · Rooke Books

£70.00 (€83.90 | $92.47 | ¥14,767)

London, Macmillan and Co, 1922 . First edition. Paperback. A bright example of the first edition of William Butler Yeats's single act drama, a work he developed while working at the Abbey Theatre. The first edition of this work, of which 1,000 copies were produced. W. B. ...

The Poetical Works of William Blake

William Blake; W. B. Yeats [ed.] · 1910 · Rooke Books

£190.00 (€227.74 | $251.00 | ¥40,082)

London, George Routledge & Sons, 1910. Vellum. A bright and handsomely bound example of W. B. Yeats's selection of the poetry of early Romantic figure William Blake. First published in the 1890s, this is a wonderful example of W. B. Yeats's edition of the poetry of W...

Poems

W. B. Yeats · 1895 · Rooke Books

£875.00 (€1,048.81 | $1,155.93 | ¥184,587)

London, T. Fisher Unwin, 1895 . First edition. Cloth. Beautifully bound in the publisher's original decorative cloth, this is the first edition of this important collected edition of the poetical works of William Butler Yeats. The first edition of this work, one of only 7...

Where There Is Nothing: Being Volume One of Plays for an Irish Theatre

W. B. Yeats · 1903 · Rooke Books

£450.00 (€539.39 | $594.48 | ¥94,931)

London, A. H. Bullen , 1903. First edition. Cloth. An excellent first edition of W. B. Yeats' forgotten play, housed in a contemporary morocco slipcase. First edition. In the original quarter cloth, with paper covered boards and paper spine label. Preserved in a handsome...

2 Vols John Sherman and Dhoya; Makar&Apos;S Dream and Other Stories

Ganconagh [W. B. Yeats]; None Stated; [Vladimir Galaktionovich Korolenko]; [F. Volkhovskii] · 1891 · Rooke Books

£650.00 (€779.12 | $858.69 | ¥137,122)

London, T. Fisher Unwin, 1891-1892. Paperback. An interesting pair from T. Fisher Unwin"s Pseudonym Library, uniting early prose by Yeats with satirical Russian moral stories in their original paper wraps. In the publisher's original paper wraps.A charming two-volume coll...

Words for Music Perhaps and Other Poems

W. B. Yeats · 1932 · Rooke Books

£450.00 (€539.39 | $594.48 | ¥94,931)

Dublin, The Cuala Press, 1932. First edition. Cloth. A very smart limited edition collection of W. B. Yeats' poems, published under Elizabeth Yeats' private press, Cuala Press. Limited edition of four hundred and fifty copies. Issued by the Cuala Press, Dublin.In the...

Yeats at the Municipal Gallery

W. B. Yeats; Arland Ussher · 1959 · Rooke Books

£49.00 (€58.73 | $64.73 | ¥10,337)

Dublin, Charlemont House, 1959 . First edition. Paperback. An exceptional first edition of this commemorative publication devoted to Yeats's poem 'The Municipal Gallery Revisited', with contextual illustrations and an introduction. The first edition of this work...

L&Apos;Oeuf de Heron

W. B. Yeats; Roger Giroux [trans.] · 1950 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.71 | ¥62,232)

Paris, Editions Premieres, 1950 . First edition. Paperback. A fine example of the limited edition of Giroux's French translation of Yeats's 'The Herne's Egg', one of only 25 copies printed on Marais paper. Translated into French from the original Engli...

On Baile&Apos;S Strand

W. B. Yeats · 1907 · Rooke Books

£72.00 (€86.30 | $95.12 | ¥15,189)

Stratford-Upon-Avon, The Shakespeare Head Press, 1907 . First edition. Paperback. The first separate edition of W. B. Yeats's drama based on the early Irish folk story Aided Óenfhir Aífe. The first theatre edition, first separate edition of this work, based on the revis...

To-Morrow

W. B. Yeats; Lennox Robinson; Joseph Campbell; Liam O'Flaherty · 1924 · Rooke Books

£1,195.00 (€1,432.38 | $1,578.67 | ¥252,093)

Dublin, Whiteley & Wright, 1924 . First edition. Paperback. An exceptionally lovely example of the only two published issues of this Irish literary periodical, including the very scarce second issue. Featuring the first Irish publication of Yeats's 'Leda and the Swan...

On the Boiler

W. B. Yeats · 1938 · Rooke Books

£180.00 (€215.76 | $237.79 | ¥37,972)

Dublin, The Cuala Press, 1938 . First edition. Paperback. A bright example of the first trade edition - the second edition produced - of Yeats's final published prose work, in which he discusses what he sees as the degeneration of Ireland. While by convention referred to ...

The Children&Apos;S Golden Treasure Book for 1938

Robert Bridges; Humbert Wolfe; Mme. D'Aulnoy; W. B Yeats et al · 1938 · Rooke Books

£55.00 (€65.93 | $72.66 | ¥11,603)

London, Odhams Press, 1938 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of the 1938 volume of 'The Children's Golden Treasure Book', with contributions from Yeats, Madame D'Aulnoy, and others. The first edition of the uncommon 'The Golden Treasure Book fo...

Modern Poetry

W. B. Yeats · 1936 · Rooke Books

£65.00 (€77.91 | $85.87 | ¥13,712)

London, The British Broadcasting Corporation, 1936 . First edition. Paperback. A bright first edition of W. B. Yeats's eighteenth Broadcast National Lecture, on the topic of 'Modern Poetry&apos. The first edition of this work. A lecture performed by W. B. Yeats on th...

Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry

W. B. Yeats · 1888 · Rooke Books

£295.00 (€353.60 | $389.71 | ¥62,232)

London, Walter Scott, 1888 . First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of W. B. Yeats's collection of writings on Irish fairy tales and folklore, one of his earliest forays into gathering such material. The first edition of this work. Wade 212. Edited and selected by W....

Poems

W. B. Yeats · 1920 · Rooke Books

£138.00 (€165.41 | $182.31 | ¥29,112)

London, T. Fisher Unwin Ltd. 1920. Cloth. A pleasing anthology of W. B. Yeats' poems, in the publisher's decorative cloth. A later impression of the seventh edition, being a classic collection of W. B. Yeats' poetry.  In the publisher's decorative blind-st...