FIRST AMERICAN EDITION OF PLAYS AND CONTROVERSIES, ONE OF ONLY 250 COPIES SIGNED BY WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
YEATS, William Butler. Plays and Controversies. New York: Macmillan, 1924. Octavo, original half blue cloth, paper spine and cover labels, uncut and unopened. $2500.
Signed limited first American edition, number 153 of only 250 copies signed by William Butler Yeats, with frontispiece portrait by John Singer Sargent and seven plates by Edmund Dulac.
Includes the "The Countess Cathleen," "The Land of Heart's Desire," "At the Hawk's Well," "The Only Jealousy of Emer," "The Dreaming of the Bones," and "Cavalry." The first edition was published in London in 1923. Roth 188. Wade 142. Hughey 42h.
Short closed tear to title page, spine mildly rubbed and toned. A near-fine copy, uncut and completely unopened.