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YEATS (WILLIAM BUTLER) The Collected Works in Verse and Prose, 8 vol., first collected edition, LIMITED TO 250 SETS, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY TO JOHN MASEFIELD, Chapman and Hall, 1908 image 1
YEATS (WILLIAM BUTLER) The Collected Works in Verse and Prose, 8 vol., first collected edition, LIMITED TO 250 SETS, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY TO JOHN MASEFIELD, Chapman and Hall, 1908 image 2
YEATS (WILLIAM BUTLER) The Collected Works in Verse and Prose, 8 vol., first collected edition, LIMITED TO 250 SETS, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY TO JOHN MASEFIELD, Chapman and Hall, 1908 image 3
YEATS (WILLIAM BUTLER) The Collected Works in Verse and Prose, 8 vol., first collected edition, LIMITED TO 250 SETS, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY TO JOHN MASEFIELD, Chapman and Hall, 1908 image 4
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YEATS (WILLIAM BUTLER)
The Collected Works in Verse and Prose, 8 vol., LIMITED TO 250 SETS, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY TO JOHN MASEFIELD, Chapman and Hall, 1908

The Irish Sale - Vision & Voice
17 – 28 November 2023, 14:00 GMT
Dublin

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YEATS (WILLIAM BUTLER)

The Collected Works in Verse and Prose, 8 vol., first collected edition, LIMITED TO 250 SETS, AUTHOR'S PRESENTATION COPY TO JOHN MASEFIELD, inscribed twice in ink "John Masefield/ from his friend/ WB Yeats 1908" (volume 1) and "John Masefield/ from his friend W.B. Yeats oct 1908" (volume 2), and with Masefield's book label in volume 1, engraved portraits, some pencil highlights to contents page, browning to endpapers, original vellum-backed boards, spines lettered in gilt, some light staining, corners knocked, spines slightly soiled with one or two creases [cf. Wade 75-82], 8vo, Chapman and Hall, 1908

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FINE ASSOCIATION COPY CELEBRATING THE FRIENDSHIP OF TWO EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURY POETICAL GIANTS OF IRISH AND ENGLISH LITERATURE.

Collecting Yeats' writings up to the age of 43, this edition was published under the author's supervision in a limited edition of 1,060 copies for the Shakespeare Head Press. Of these, 250 copies were issued under the Chapman and Hall imprint.

Yeats offers it here to the poet and playwright John Masefield, twelve years his junior. After a short career as a sailor and a period spent drifting, Masefield published his first poem at the age of twenty and in 1900 was introduced to Yeats, who greatly influenced his early writing. Masefield became close friends with the poet and formed a deep friendship with his brother, the painter Jack Butler Yeats. The success of his poems, then his novels, and finally his plays continued to increase, and in 1930, Masefield, ahead of Rudyard Kipling, was named 'Poet Laureate', retaining this title until his death. Yeats, for his part, received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923.

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