Yeats, W B

Tribute to Thomas Davis

W. B. Yeats · 1947 · Rooke Books

£85.00 (€101.88 | $112.29 | ¥17,931)

Oxford, Cork University Press, 1947. First edition. Paperback. A bright example of the first edition of W. B. Yeats's essay on the centenary meeting for Irish nationalist Thomas Osborne Davis, celebrating his life. The first edition, Wade 208.The essay reflects on Davis"s...

The Tower

W. B. Yeats · 1928 · Rooke Books

£1,600.00 (€1,917.83 | $2,113.70 | ¥337,531)

London, Macmillan & Co, 1928 . First edition. Cloth. The second impression of W. B. Yeats's celebrated poetry collection, in the beautiful pictorial cloth binding, and unclipped dust wrapper. The second impression of the first edition of this work, published only one mont...

The Collected Plays of W.B. Yeats

W. B. Yeats · 1952 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.13 | ¥26,370)

London, Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1952. Cloth. The second collected edition of W. B. Yeats' plays, expanded with his later works, and complete with the original unclipped dust wrapper. The second edition of this collection, though the first to contain additional plays. T...

Plays in Prose and Verse

W. B. Yeats · 1922 · Rooke Books

£795.00 (€952.92 | $1,050.24 | ¥167,711)

London, Macmillan & Co, 1922 . First edition. Cloth. An exceptional example of the first edition of this collection of the plays of William Butler Yeats, in the publisher's original dust wrapper. The first edition, first impression of this work. One of only 1,500 copies p...

The Holy Mountain, Being the Story of a Pilgrimage to Lake Manas

Bhagwan Shri Hamsa; Shri Purohit Swami [trans.]; W. B. Yeats [intro.] · 1934 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.13 | ¥26,370)

London, Faber and Faber, 1934 . First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this English language translation of a Hindu saint"s pilgrimage, with an introduction to the work from W. B. Yeats. Translated from the Marathi into English by Shri Purohit Swami. The first edition, fir...

The Poetical Works of William Blake

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

£165.00 (€197.78 | $217.98 | ¥34,808)

London, George Routledge & Sons, 1910 . Hardback. 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 o...

The Hour-Glass, Cathleen Ni Houlihan, the Pot of Broth: Being Volume Two of Plays for an Irish Theatre

W. B. Yeats · 1904 · Rooke Books

£120.00 (€143.84 | $158.53 | ¥25,315)

London, A. H. Bullen, 1904. First edition. Cloth. A smart example of the first edition of this collection of three short dramatic works from W. B. Yeats, including 'Cathleen Ni Houlihan&apos. The first edition of this work. This, the second volume of 'Plays for an Ir...

1913 Plays for an Irish Theatre

W. B. Yeats · 1913 · Rooke Books

£80.00 (€95.89 | $105.68 | ¥16,877)

London & Stratford-Upon-Avon, A. H. Bullen, 1913 . Leather. Handsomely bound in quarter morocco, this is the second impression of W. B. Yeats's anthology of seven of his most celebrated plays. The second impression of this work, which was first published two years prior. ...

Dramatis Personae 1896-1902, Estrangement, the Death of Synge, the Bounty of Sweden

W. B. Yeats · 1936 · Rooke Books

£98.00 (€117.47 | $129.46 | ¥20,674)

London, Macmillan and Co. Ltd. 1936. First edition. Cloth. The scarcer true first edition of this interesting autobiographical collection from Irish poet and dramatist, W. B. Yeats, with the unclipped dust wrapper. The first edition, first impression. With the publisher'...

To-Morrow

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

£1,295.00 (€1,552.24 | $1,710.77 | ¥273,189)

Dublin, Whiteley & Wright, 1924 . Paperback. 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&apos. Present here are the only issues of this sh...

Eight Poems

W. B. Yeats; Edward Pay [transcribed by] · 1916 · Rooke Books

£1,500.00 (€1,797.96 | $1,981.59 | ¥316,435)

London, Form" at the Morland Press, 1916 . First edition. Cloth. An exceptionally scarce advanced copy of W. B. Yeats's mid-1910s poetry collection, marking a dividing point between his early Celtic revival influences, and his later more modern work. A vanishingly scarce ...

The Tower

W. B. Yeats · 1928 · Rooke Books

£1,490.00 (€1,785.98 | $1,968.38 | ¥314,326)

London, Macmillan & Co, 1928. First edition. Cloth. A wonderful example of the second impression of W. B. Yeats's celebrated poetry collection, in the beautiful pictorial cloth binding, and unclipped dust wrapper. The second impression of the first edition of this work, p...

Plays for an Irish Theatre

W. B. Yeats · 1911 · Rooke Books

£90.00 (€107.88 | $118.90 | ¥18,986)

London, A. H. Bullen, 1911 . First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this significant collection of Irish plays for the theatre, from Nobel Prize-winning poet and dramatist W. B. Yeats. A first edition. Illustrated by Gordon Craig with a frontispiece and three plates. C...

Later Poems; Plays and Controversies; Early Poems and Stories; Essays; Plays in Prose and Verse

W. B. Yeats · 1922 · Rooke Books

£595.00 (€713.19 | $786.03 | ¥125,519)

London, Macmillan , 1922-1925 . First edition. Cloth. A wonderful collection of five first edition collections of poetry, prose and non-fiction essays from W. B. Yeats, including a publisher's presentation copy of 'Plays and Controversies&apos. Uniformly bound in the...

The King&Apos;S Threshold; on Baile&Apos;S Strand

W. B. Yeats · 1905 · Rooke Books

£115.00 (€137.84 | $151.92 | ¥24,260)

Dublin, Maunsel & Co. Ltd , 1905. First edition. Paperback. The very scarce first Irish editions of these significant plays from Irish poet and dramatist, W. B. Yeats, volumes issued for the publisher's 'Abbey Theatre Series&apos. The first Irish editions of these pl...

Poems of Spenser

Edmund Spenser; W. B. Yeats [ed.] · 1906 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.13 | ¥26,370)

Edinburgh, T. C. & E. C. Jack, 1906 . First edition. Cloth. Illustrated throughout by Jessie M King, this is an excellent first edition of William Butler Yeats's collection of the work of sixteenth century poet Edmund Spenser. The first edition of this work, being the fir...

Plays for an Irish Theatre

W. B. Yeats · 1911 · Rooke Books

£85.00 (€101.88 | $112.29 | ¥17,931)

London, A. H. Bullen, 1911. First edition. Cloth. A smart first edition of this significant collection of Irish plays for the theatre, from Nobel Prize-winning poet and dramatist W. B. Yeats. First edition.In the original quarter cloth binding, with paper covered boards.Illust...

The Shadowy Waters

W. B. Yeats · 1901 · Rooke Books

£190.00 (€227.74 | $251.00 | ¥40,082)

New York , Dodd, Mead and Company , 1901. First edition. Hardback. The first U.S. edition of this haunting poetic drama from celebrated Irish poet W. B. Yeats. First U.S. edition. In the publisher's paper covered boards, with paper title label to the front board. Several ...

Twenty One Poems by Katharine Tynan: Selected by W.B. Yeats

Katharine Tynan; W. B. Yeats · 1971 · Rooke Books

£125.00 (€149.83 | $165.13 | ¥26,370)

Shannon, Irish University Press, T. M. MacGlinchey, 1971 . Cloth. A scarce 1971 facsimile of a limited edition volume of poetry by Katharine Tynan. The poems in the volume were selected by W. B. Yeats. A facsimile of a very scarce 1907 volume of poetry.In the original glassine...

Poems

W. B. Yeats · 1922 · Rooke Books

£250.00 (€299.66 | $330.27 | ¥52,739)

London, T. Fisher Unwin, 1922 . Leather. A wonderful anthology of the poetry of celebrated Irish literary icon W. B. Yeats, in a signed full morocco binding by Hatchards. First published in 1895, this is a later edition of this classic collection of W. B. Yeats's poetry. ...