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YEATS, W.B. The Hour-Glass, Cathleen hi Houlihan, The Pot of Broth. London: A.H. Bullen, 1904.
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YEATS, W.B. The Hour-Glass, Cathleen hi Houlihan, The Pot of Broth. London: A.H. Bullen, 1904.
8o. Original cloth-backed boards, paper spine label, uncut (some minor rubbing to extremities, endpapers slightly darkened); green quarter morocco slipcase. Provenance: Lady Gregory (presentation inscription, bookplate); James Gilvarry (his sale Christie's New York, 7 February 1986, lot 487).
INCLUDING A MANUSCRIPT POEM BY YEATS
LADY GREGORY'S COPY OF THE FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY YEATS TO LADY GREGORY on the front free endpaper: "Lady Gregory from her friend the writer of something of this book--March 1904." WITH A 14-LINE POEM BY YEATS, "Song for pupils at end of Hour Glass" written on the front flyleaf. On nine pages are marginal notes and pencilled revisions by Yeats and Lady Gregory.
A SUPERB ASSOCIATION COPY. Yeats and Lady Gregory first met at Lord Morris's in the summer of 1894. Three years later she began her long collaboration with him. Yeats testified to her hand in Red Hanrahan, also published in 1904, when he inscribed a copy to the great collector John Quinn: "I think the stories have the emotion of folklore. They are but half mine now, and often [Gregory's] beautful idiom is the better half." Gregory had herself translated old Celtic texts and noted: "I was very glad and proud to help in the re-writing of these stories, and for any trouble I had I repaid myself by bringing Hanrahan back to Galway from Sligo where W. Yeats had first set him wandering" (quoted in Mary Lou Kohfeldt, Lady Gregory: The Woman Behind the Irish Renaissance, NY 1985).
Starting in 1897, Yeats spent nearly every summer with Lady Gregory in Coole Park, collaborating and benefiting from each other's company. Whether or not they were ever lovers has never been determined, but the strength of their bond is unquestioned. In his last published letter to her, Yeats wrote that he would dedicate his newest play to her and wrote, "I wish I were back with you at Coole--nothing is good for me now but utter quiet" (29 October 1932).
The "Song for pupils at the end of Hour Glass" which Yeats has written on the flyleaf not first published in full until 1957, in The Varorium Edition of the Poems of W.B. Yeats. That version reveals alterations in punctuation. Grolier Yeats, p. 10 (exhibited); Wade 53.
8o. Original cloth-backed boards, paper spine label, uncut (some minor rubbing to extremities, endpapers slightly darkened); green quarter morocco slipcase. Provenance: Lady Gregory (presentation inscription, bookplate); James Gilvarry (his sale Christie's New York, 7 February 1986, lot 487).
INCLUDING A MANUSCRIPT POEM BY YEATS
LADY GREGORY'S COPY OF THE FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY YEATS TO LADY GREGORY on the front free endpaper: "Lady Gregory from her friend the writer of something of this book--March 1904." WITH A 14-LINE POEM BY YEATS, "Song for pupils at end of Hour Glass" written on the front flyleaf. On nine pages are marginal notes and pencilled revisions by Yeats and Lady Gregory.
A SUPERB ASSOCIATION COPY. Yeats and Lady Gregory first met at Lord Morris's in the summer of 1894. Three years later she began her long collaboration with him. Yeats testified to her hand in Red Hanrahan, also published in 1904, when he inscribed a copy to the great collector John Quinn: "I think the stories have the emotion of folklore. They are but half mine now, and often [Gregory's] beautful idiom is the better half." Gregory had herself translated old Celtic texts and noted: "I was very glad and proud to help in the re-writing of these stories, and for any trouble I had I repaid myself by bringing Hanrahan back to Galway from Sligo where W. Yeats had first set him wandering" (quoted in Mary Lou Kohfeldt, Lady Gregory: The Woman Behind the Irish Renaissance, NY 1985).
Starting in 1897, Yeats spent nearly every summer with Lady Gregory in Coole Park, collaborating and benefiting from each other's company. Whether or not they were ever lovers has never been determined, but the strength of their bond is unquestioned. In his last published letter to her, Yeats wrote that he would dedicate his newest play to her and wrote, "I wish I were back with you at Coole--nothing is good for me now but utter quiet" (29 October 1932).
The "Song for pupils at the end of Hour Glass" which Yeats has written on the flyleaf not first published in full until 1957, in The Varorium Edition of the Poems of W.B. Yeats. That version reveals alterations in punctuation. Grolier Yeats, p. 10 (exhibited); Wade 53.