Buy this book on-line HONE, JOSEPH - Edited with a memoir by and with a preface by ELTON, OLIVER: : J. B. YEATS - LETTERS TO HIS SON W. B. YEATS AND OTHERS 1869-1922LONDON.FABER AND FABER LIMITED,1944. ISBN No ISBN.
UK,slim 8vo HB minus dw/dj,1st edn,2nd imp. [Originally and first published 1944, and the 1st edn,2nd imp - this edn - May 1944.Even as a 2nd imp,it precedes the (US),E. P. Dutton & Co.,New York,1946 issue/edn.] NFINE. No owner inscrptn. Bright,crisp.clean,sharp-cornered, publisher's original brick red cloth boards/covers with immaculate plain white/ cream endpapers,both hinges solid and sound without any nicks,splits,tears or cracking,bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip - the title within a double-line border above and below; with negligible shelf-wear,bumping or creasing, no nicks,tears,splits or fraying present. Top edges darkened,fore-edges similarly so,and deckled (untrimmed); contents bright,tight,clean - text body foxing-free,solid and sound - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread apart from my own collation.UK,slim 8vo HB minus dw/dj,1st edn,2nd imp,5-296pp [paginated] includes a preface by Oliver Elton,a contents list/table,illus list/ table,a memoir of John Butler Yeats by Joseph Hone (a few pages in these prelims unopened as indeed are some few others, further on in the book),some 251 letters, 16pp contemporary facsimile monochrome illustration reproductions (J. B. Yeats self-portrait frntis included) interspersed throughout the text and the book,an index,plus [unpaginated] half-title,contemporary,b/w full-length portrait illustrated frntis,and title page.
John Butler Yeats was the father of the poet W.B. Yeats and the painter Jack Yeats.This selection of his letters covers the period 1869 to his death in 1922.They are rich in ideas,opinions and gossip,and discuss art, and Irish affairs.
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