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New Poems.
Hardcover. Sm 8vo (8.5” x 6”), half cream cloth, blue paper boards, with paper-stamp title on spine. iv, 39 pp., with four pp. of sheet music printed at end. Inscribed “Elizabeth Parker” in pencil on ffep and bookplate of Wyman Parker on front pastedown. CONDITION: Very good, nick to spine-edge of paper on rear cover, bit of rubbing to spine label slightly affecting lettering. First edition. One of 450 copies, “finished on the last day of Spring April the ninth, in the year nineteen hundred and thirty eight,” and purchased by previous owner at “the Cuala Press, June 9, 1938, for a gift for Mother.” The Cuala Press was founded in Dublin by Elizabeth Corbet Yeats and Susan Mary Yeats, with financial support from their brother. The press began as the “Dun Emer” Press, established in 1902 with the help of Evelyn Gleeson, but became known as the Cuala Press in 1908 after the Yeats sisters split from Gleeson. Following the death of Elizabeth Yeats in 1940, it was run by Georgie-Hyde Lees, wife of W. B. Yeats, in collaboration with two of Elizabeth’s longtime assistants. The press ceased operation in 1986. Wyman Parker was a librarian at Wesleyan University, the Bread Loaf School of English, and a collector of fine press books.
Item #8428
Price: $400.00
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