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Yeats, W. B : Plays and Controversies

The Macmillan Company, New York, 1924

Original publisher's green cloth binding with gilt lettering on the spine and lightly impressed decorations on the front cover done in the style of Art Deco or Art Nouveau. 5 1/2" x 7 3/4." 474 pages, complete. Eight black and white plates, complete. Black and white stamps of a unicorn in a fantastical landscape on front and back pastedowns. Pages and covers are very clean and intact overall. Upper-right corner of the front cover is bumped. Spine lightly sunned. Slight corner and edge wear to the covers. William Butler Yeats (1865-1935) was an Irish poet and is considered one of the foremost authors of the twentieth-century who wrote in the English language. Yeats helped found the Abbey Theatre and also served as a senator of the Irish Free State for two terms. Among his literary accomplishments was receiving the 1923 Nobel Prize in Literature. Excerpt from the Preface: "I have gathered into this book two plays, written before the foundation of the Irish Theatre though much corrected since, and four plays written but the other day and intended for performance in drawing-room and studio, and a long series of dramatic notes." The first two plays are The Countess Cathleen and The Land of Heart's Desire. The remaining four are intended for dancers and are titled, At the Hawk's Well, The Only Jealousy of Emer, The Dreaming of the Bones, and Calvary. Yeats begins this book with a discussion of the "Irish Dramatic Movement.". Book. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hardcover

1st American Edition