Four Plays for Dancers.

YEATS, W. B.

Edité par London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1921

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First edition, first impression. Each play, "At The Hawks' Well", "The Only Jealousy Of Emer", "The Dreaming Of The Bones", and "Calvary", utilizes dance to create a spiritual experience. The illustrator Edmund Dulac, a lifelong friend of Yeats, designed the scenery and costumes for "At The Hawk's Well", composed the incidental music, and took part in its premier in 1916. Provenance: Walter A. Donnelly (1900-1981), the husband to the poet and essayist Dorothy Marie Donnelly (1903-1994),with his large decorative bookplate. Walter was editor at the University of Michigan Press and the couple's home was a literary salon, often visited by those lecturing at the university, including Dylan Thomas, Robert Hayden, and John Heath-Stubbs. The majority of the Donnelly's wide-ranging rare book collection was donated to the University of Central Florida Library. Wade 129. Quarto. Frontispiece and 6 illustrations, all by Edmund Dulac. Original black quarter cloth, grey paper label printed in black, grey paper-covered boards, front board illustrated in black with design by Sturge Moore. With dust jacket. Bookseller's ticket to front pastedown. Wear to spine ends and board edges, small section of jacket spine panel pasted to foot of spine, offsetting to endpapers, contents clean; jacket unclipped, spine browned, damp stain and small loss to foot, just affecting publisher's device, edges nicked and brittle, a couple of consequent punctures to folds, tape repair to verso: a very good copy in like jacket.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Four Plays for Dancers.
• Éditeur: London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1921
• Édition: Edition originale