W. B. Yeats — The Green Helmet, a Heroic Farce

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 edition' of this work, with the text revised for ease of theatrical performance. Wade 89.This is the only separate edition of this play, without further works included.A mythological 'heroic farce' in which Irish heroes fight over a magical green helmet.With the library bookplate of the Aberdare Hall library to the verso of the front wrap, with their stamp to the title page.With the bookplate of Milton McC. Gatch to the verso of the front wrap. He was an American theologian, librarian and scholar of Anglo-Saxon and medieval Christian literature who served as a professor, Dean and Provost at Union Theological Seminary in New York. In the publisher's original paper wraps. Externally, excellent, with light edgewear to wrap perimeters. Front wrap detached to head and tail, but firmly held. Bookplates to verso of front wrap. Internally, firmly bound. Stamp to title page. Pages clean and bright. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .