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Dublin: The Cuala Press, 1938. Hardcover. Sm 8vo (8.5" x 6"), half cream cloth, blue paper boards, with paper-stamp title on spine. iv, 39 pp., with four pp. of sheet music printed at end. Inscribed "Elizabeth Parker" in pencil on ffep and bookplate of Wyman Parker on front pastedown. CONDITION: Very good, nick to spine-edge of paper on rear cover, bit of rubbing to spine label slightly affecting lettering.
First edition. One of 450 copies, "finished on the last day of Spring April the ninth, in the year nineteen hundred and thirty eight," and purchased by previous owner at "the Cuala Press, June 9, 1938, for a gift for Mother."
Wyman Parker was a librarian at Wesleyan University, librarian at the Bread Loaf School of English, and a collector of fine press books.
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- Bookseller
- James Arsenault & Company
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8428
- Title
- New Poems
- Author
- Yeats, W.B
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Dublin: The Cuala Press, 1938
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- Cloth
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- Fine
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- Bookplate
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- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
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