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San Francisco: The Arion Press, 1990. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Diebenkorn, Richard. No. 271 of 400 numbered copies, quarto size, 204 pp., signed by Richard Diebenkorn. William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) was both an Irish poet and ardent nationalist; he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923 (the first Irish winner), shortly after Ireland gained independence. His poetry continues to inspire and be read today, and he "is widely considered to be one of the greatest poets of the 20th century" (n.b., quote from the web site of The Poetry Foundation). Helen Vendler says of Yeats in her insightful introduction that he was "one of the most gifted, driven, and complex figures of twentieth-century art and politics". With six etchings by Richard Diebenkorn (1922-1993), abstract artist and winner of the National Medal of Arts in 1991; for this volume he "took the Yeatsian theme of an empty coat on a hanger to produce a series of prints transforming the garment from a representational…
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Poems of W.B. Yeats
by Yeats, W.B.; Vendler, Helen (Editor); Diebenkorn, Richard (Artist)
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Plays in Prose and Verse; Written for An Irish Theatre, and Generally With the Help of a Friend
by Yeats, W.B.
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New York: The Macmillan Company, 1924. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. No. 44 of 250 copies, octavo size, 464 pp., signed by Yeats, with original slipcase. William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) is acknowledged by many as "supreme among modern Irish poets". He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1923 (the first Irish to be so recognized), at which time he was "one of Dublin's great established figures, both in his own right and as the representative of the cultural renaissance which...had set in motion the Irish revolution and war of independence." Throughout his life, and throughout his poetry - which is still read and loved today - Yeats is recognized as supremely Irish, with his life and poetry reflective of his Irish identity. This work, "Plays in Prose and Verse", according to Yeats' Preface, includes "all Plays of mine played at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, except 'The Land of Heart's Desire' and 'The Countess Cathleen' ". The "Friend" referred to in the title is Lady Gregory…
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Early Poems and Stories
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New York: The Macmillan Company, 1925. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. No. 131 of 250 copies, octavo size, 538 pp., signed by Yeats. William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) is acknowledged by many as "supreme among modern Irish poets". He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1923 (the first Irish to be so recognized), at which time he was "one of Dublin's great established figures, both in his own right and as the representative of the cultural renaissance which...had set in motion the Irish revolution and war of independence." Throughout his life, and throughout his poetry - which is still read and loved today - Yeats is recognized as supremely Irish, with his life and poetry reflective of his Irish identity. "Early Poems and Stories", published in 1925, was issued in a binding uniform with "Later Poems". It "contains a collection of poems and stories from the late 1880s and early 1890s. During this period Yeats was a young struggling poet impressed by the tales and myths of the Celtic…
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Essays
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New York: The Macmillan Company, 1924. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Near fine. No. 9 of 250 copies, octavo size, 548 pp., with the slipcase, signed by Yeats. William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) is acknowledged by many as "supreme among modern Irish poets". He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1923 (the first Irish to be so recognized), at which time he was "one of Dublin's great established figures, both in his own right and as the representative of the cultural renaissance which...had set in motion the Irish revolution and war of independence." Throughout his life, and throughout his poetry - which is still read and loved today - Yeats is recognized as supremely Irish, with his life and poetry reflective of his Irish identity. "Essays" is the fourth volume of the Macmillan "Collected Edition" of Yeats' work. The essays included are: "Ideas of Good and Evil", "The Cutting of an Agate", and "Per Amica Silentia Lunae", all of which are divided into sections, and most of them with some…
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Later Poems
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New York: The Macmillan Company, 1924. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Very good +. No. 9 of 250 copies, octavo size, 379 pp., signed by Yeats. William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) is acknowledged by many as "supreme among modern Irish poets". He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1923 (the first Irish to be so recognized), at which time he was "one of Dublin's great established figures, both in his own right and as the representative of the cultural renaissance which...had set in motion the Irish revolution and war of independence." Throughout his life, and throughout his poetry - which is still read and loved today - Yeats is recognized as supremely Irish, with his life and poetry reflective of his Irish identity. "Later Poems" is a collection of Yeat's work previously published between 1899 and 1921, set forth in chronological order. The work includes: "The Wind Among the Reeds", "The Old Age of Queen Maeve", "Baile and Aillinn", "In the Seven Woods", "The Shadowy Waters", "From the Green…
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The Life of Japanese Children [Wood Block Prints]; A Set of 6 Pictures 8" x 10
by Yurimoto, Keiko
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Kyoto - Tokyo: Kyoto Hanga-In Co, 1957. Folio in a case. Near fine. Yurimoto, Keiko. Quarto size, 6 loose woodblock prints in a colorful three-fold portfolio. A vibrant set of Ukiyo-e woodblock prints depicting Japanese children in traditional settings by Japanese artist "Keiko" or Keiko Yurimoto (1906-2000), a skilled woodblock artist known for her bijin-ga. The prints have been heightened with "bakashi" shading; light "gauffrage", a heavier black ink has been applied to children's hair, clothing and eyes, the overall effect looks much like pochoir. The scenes include a child collecting firewood, a girl dancing in a formal kimono, a mother and baby clothed for a holiday, two children traversing a snowy landscape, children capturing lightning bugs, and children holding paper lanterns. ___DESCRIPTION: Patterned paper covered three-fold portfolio with a purple cloth tie (opens in the Japanese style), title and three illustrations of children's faces in black on a green paper label mounted to upper…
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