Jack B. Yeats. An Appreciation and an Interpretation

Dublin: Victor Waddington Publications Limited, 1945. First edition, "Special Edition" issue, limited to 250 copies (also published in a trade issue) Planned, printed and bound in Ireland by Colm O Lochlainn at the Sign of Three Candles. 20 plates, printed on rectos only, reproducing paintings by Jack B. Yeats. 39, [40]pp. 8vo. Red cloth spine, tan paper-covered boards. Binding is moderately faded on spine, small abrasion on rear cover, else a very good copy, with the text, and illustrations, fresh and clean. First edition, "Special Edition" issue, limited to 250 copies (also published in a trade issue) Planned, printed and bound in Ireland by Colm O Lochlainn at the Sign of Three Candles. 20 plates, printed on rectos only, reproducing paintings by Jack B. Yeats. 39, [40]pp. 8vo. From the library of noted Irish-born scholar, Alexander Norman Jeffares (known as "Derry") with his rubberstamp on front flyleaf. Alexander Norman Jeffares (1920-2005) was born in Dublin, and spent his life teaching, and writing, in Ireland, England and Scotland. He helped found the International Association for the Study of Anglo-Irish Literature, and became its co-chairman in 1968, and Honorary Life President in 1973. De Burca 149