W. B. Yeats — Plays for an Irish Theatre

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.Illustrated by Gordon Craig with a frontispiece and three plates. Collated, complete. Featuring mystical, myth-infused dramas like Cathleen ni Houlihan, On Baile's Strand, The Hour-Glass, and Deirdre, of which were central to the Irish Literary Revival and the formation of the Abbey Theatre, which was founded by Yeats, Lady Gregory and Edward Martyn.W. B. Yeats maintains as one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. A driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival and founder of the Abbey Theatre, he was awarded the 1923 Nobel Prize in Literature. With major works including The Land of Heart's Desire, Cathleen ni Houlihan and Deirdre. This copy previously owned by Milton McCormick Gatch (1932-2023) who was Dean, Provost and Librarian at Union Theological Seminary and a longtime co-priest-in-charge at the Chapel of St. James the Fisherman in Wellfleet, Massachusetts. In the original quarter cloth binding, with paper covered boards and paper spine label. Externally, smart, with sunning to the spine label and a minor instance of damp to the boards. Spots to the white cloth and minor bumping to the extremities. Two bookplates to the front paste down (Sean O'Ceallaig and Milton McC. Gatch&apos. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally clean, with the odd spot. Very Good . Ill.: Gordon Craig. Very Good .