8571. Yeats, W.B.

Collected Plays.

Second Edition, Second Reprint. London, Macmillan & Co. LTD, 1960 14 cm x 20 cm. 705 Pages. Hardcover / Original cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Excellent condition with only very minor signs of external wear.

8572. Yeats, W.B.

Drømmerier over barneår og ungdom. [First Danish Edition of “Reveries over Childhood and Youth”]. Oversat af Valdemar Rørdam.

København/Kristiania, Haase/Cammermeyer, 1924. Octavo. 180 pages. Original softcover / Publisher’s printed wrappers. The very fragile wrappers in unusually, very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. Name of former owner William Borberg on titlepage. Rare !

8573. Yeats, W.B.

The Collected Plays of W.B Yeats.

Third printing of the second edition. London, Macmillan, 1960. 14 cm x 20,5 cm. Frontispiece,705 pages. Original Hardcover with dustjacket in protective Mylar. Very good condition with some minor signs of external wear. From the library of swiss – american – irish poet Chuck Kruger. Previous owner’s name to front free endpaper. Occasional markings in the text.

8574. Yeats, W.B.

The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats. Definitive Edition, With the Author’s Final Revisions.

Eighth printing. New York, Macmillan, 1962. 14 cm x 21 cm. Frontispiece, XV, 480 pages. Original Hardcover. Cloth. Very good condition with some minor signs of external wear. From the library of swiss – american – irish poet Chuck Kruger. With his name to front free endpaper. Occasional markings and annotations in the text. Slightly damaged spine.

8575. Yeats, W.B. / Shree Purohit Swami (Translators).

The Ten Principal Upanishads.

London, Faber and Faber, 1975. 20 cm x 14 cm. 159 pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with only minor signs of external wear. [Faber Paperbacks].

8576. [Yeats, W.B.] Coote, Stephen.

W.B. Yeats – A Life. [with an interesting collection of four (4) newspaper-clippings on W.B.Yeats].

London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1997. 24cm. xii,612 pages. Many illustrations throughout the book. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear.

8577. [Yeats, W.B.] Donoghue, Denis.

Yeats.

First edition. London, Fontana, 1971. 11 cm x 18 cm. 139, (5) pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with some minor signs of external wear. From the library of swiss – american – irish poet Chuck Kruger. With a dedication to front free endpaper. [Modern Masters].

8578. [Yeats, W.B.] Ellmann, Richard.

Yeats – The Man and the Mask.

New York, E.P. Dutton 1948. 11 cm x 18,5 cm. Frontispiece, XII, 331, (9) pages. Original Softcover. Very good condition with some minor signs of external wear. From the library of swiss – american – irish poet Chuck Kruger. With his name to half title. Occasional markings and annotations in the text.

8579. Yeats, William Butler / [George [Georgie] Yeats / Mrs. Eva Hempel / Eduard Hempel].

Pages from a Diary Written in Nineteen Hundred and Thirty. [Signed / Inscribed by George Yeats to Mrs. [Eva] Hempel, wife of german ambassador to Ireland during World War II].

No.8 / 200 copies, of the original limited edition. Dublin, The Cuala Press, 1944 [September 1944]. Octavo. 58 pages. Original Hardcover. Inscribed by George Yeats on the front free endpaper: “Mrs. Hempel from George Yeats, April 1944”. This has to be of course “April 1945”. The impossibility of signing/inscribing a book in April 1944 if it was only published in September 1944 is easily explained with the classic everyday-mistake of still writing the previous year in the first few months of the following year. A stunning association. The signature and inscription is a solid match to George Yeats’ autographs in her later hand and William Butler Yeats and George Yeats were frequent visitors to the Hempel’s in Dublin. In addition, the low number of the edition (8/200) suggests this being one of the reference copies given to George Yeats, who contributed heavily to the volume and even added an explanatory note (in print) verso the titlepage. This copy is near fine, bound in the publisher’s quarter buckram over yellow, paper-covered boards. The books pages remained unopened. Eva Hempel’s husband Eduard Hempel is one of the most controversial figures in modern Irish history, excoriated by some as ‘Hitler’s man’, defended by others such as the country’s first President, Eamon De Valera. Certainly, Hempel presented William Butler Yeats in 1938 with a copy of ‘Germany Speaks’ whose inscription described an ‘unforgettable afternoon’ spent together by Yeats and Hempel. Eduard Hempel and his wife were accepted socialites in the Dublin world of World War II, famously receiving a condolence call by de Valera upon the death of Hitler. Eduard Hempel and his wife Eva were granted asylum in Ireland after world war II and stayed way beyond the end of World War II.

8580. Yen, Master Sheng.

The Darma Drum Lineage of Chan Buddhism. Inheriting the Past and Inspiring the Future.

Taipei, The Shen Yen Education Foundation, 2010. 20,5 cm x 13,5 cm. 95 pages. Softcover. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. From the library of philosopher Graham Parkes.