Fairy Tales of Ireland by Yeats, W.B - 1990

Hardback. Very Good.

Collins, 1990. Hard cover. Like New/Good. Lynch, Patrick James. William Butler Yeats (13 June 1865 28 January 1939) was an Irish poet, dramatist, prose writer and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. A pillar of the Irish literary establishment, he helped to found the Abbey Theatre, and in his later years served two terms as a Senator of the Irish Free State. He was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival along with Lady Gregory, Edward Martyn and others. Yeats is considered one of the key twentieth-century English-language poets. He was a Symbolist poet, using allusive imagery and symbolic structures throughout his career. He chose words and assembled them so that, in addition to a particular meaning, they suggest abstract thoughts that may seem more significant and resonant. His use of symbols is usually something physical that is both itself and a suggestion of other, perhaps immaterial, timeless qualities.

London: Collins, 1990. Book. Illus. by P. J. Lynch;. Very Good+. Hardcover. First Printing - First Thus. 8vo. 160 pp. Green boards lettered in gilt on the spine; beige endpapers; dj art and interior line drawings by P. J. Lynch. Lightly rubbed on the corners of the dustjacket; price clipped; no interior markings. There are far too many stories here to list them all but some of the highlights are: The Stolen Child; The Legend of Knockfrafton; The Lazy Beauty and Her Aunts; Donald and His Neighbours; The Man Who Never Knew Fear; The Horned Woman; The Story of the Little Bird; and many more..

William Collins Sons & Co., 1990. Second Impression. hbk. Used- Very good. Williams Collins Sons & Co., 1990, hardcover, unread, with dust cover faded at spine

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[19 stories from his 1888 and 1892 collections.1865-1895 was the period of his most intense interest in folklore.] FINE/NFINE.Owner's inked name to ffe but no price-clip to dw/dj - absence of publisher's price - usually indicates an export edition,and generally believed to precede UK trade issue/distribution. Bright,crisp,clean,glossy laminated,colour pictorial artwork by P. J. Lynch,illustrated front panel of dw/dj with white+yellow lettering,rear panel with oval black+yellow vignette illustration; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners,minor,light,superficial scoring/indents to both panels of dw/dj but without any penetration or affecting boards beneath.Top+fore- edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners - appears unread - apart from my own collation.Bright, crisp,clean,publisher's original,sharp-cornered,dark green cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to… Read More