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YEATS, William Butler. The Words upon the Window Pane: a Play in One Act... Dublin: Cuala Press, 1934.
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YEATS, William Butler. The Words upon the Window Pane: a Play in One Act... Dublin: Cuala Press, 1934.
8o. Original cloth-backed boards, uncut and unopened (spine slightly sunned); green quarter morocco slipcase. Provenance: Olivia Shakespear (1863-1938), British novelist, playwright and patron of the arts (presentation inscription from the author); Ben Sackheim (sold Swann Galleries, 14 June 2001, lot 363).
FIRST EDITION, one of 350 copies. A SUPERB PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY YEATS TO OLIVIA SHAKESPEAR on the front flyleaf: "this friend, Olivia, from W.B. Yeats." Yeats and Shakespear met in 1894, soon developing an intimate relationship. Though their affair ended in 1897, they remained life-long friends. Yeats went on to marry Georgie Hyde-Lees, Olivia's step-niece and Dorothy's best friend. Olivia began hosting a weekly salon frequented by Ezra Pound and other modernist writers and artists in 1909, and became influential in London literary society. Dorothy Shakespear married Pound in 1914, despite the less than enthusiastic blessing of her parents. After their marriage, Pound would use funds received from Olivia to support T. S. Eliot and James Joyce. Miller 52; Wade 174. AN OUTSTANDING ASSOCIATION COPY.
8o. Original cloth-backed boards, uncut and unopened (spine slightly sunned); green quarter morocco slipcase. Provenance: Olivia Shakespear (1863-1938), British novelist, playwright and patron of the arts (presentation inscription from the author); Ben Sackheim (sold Swann Galleries, 14 June 2001, lot 363).
FIRST EDITION, one of 350 copies. A SUPERB PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY YEATS TO OLIVIA SHAKESPEAR on the front flyleaf: "this friend, Olivia, from W.B. Yeats." Yeats and Shakespear met in 1894, soon developing an intimate relationship. Though their affair ended in 1897, they remained life-long friends. Yeats went on to marry Georgie Hyde-Lees, Olivia's step-niece and Dorothy's best friend. Olivia began hosting a weekly salon frequented by Ezra Pound and other modernist writers and artists in 1909, and became influential in London literary society. Dorothy Shakespear married Pound in 1914, despite the less than enthusiastic blessing of her parents. After their marriage, Pound would use funds received from Olivia to support T. S. Eliot and James Joyce. Miller 52; Wade 174. AN OUTSTANDING ASSOCIATION COPY.