Sale 2478 - 19th & 20th Century Literature, May 15, 2018

308 310 308 c   YEATS, WILLIAM BUTLER. The Variorum Edition of the Poems of W. B. Yeats. Edited by Peter Allt and Russell K. Alspach. Thick 8vo, gilt-lettered red and white buckram, top edges stained black, faint sunning to spine; internally pristine; publisher’s card slipcase, tanning primarily to two panels, minor soiling. number 769 of 825 copies signed by yeats . New York: Macmillan, 1957 [700/1,000] 309 c   YEATS, WILLIAM BUTLER. The Winding Stair. 8vo, publisher’s gilt- stamped blue cloth, spine title labels, faint mottling to boards; toning to endpaper margins, bookseller’s label. limited edition , number 75 of 600 copies signed by yeats on the half-title. Wade 164. New York: The Fountain Press, 1929 [700/1,000] 310 c   YEZIERSKA, ANZIA Bread Givers. 8vo, publisher’s 1 / 4 cloth over black boards, printed labels to spine and front board, spine and label darkened, corners rubbed with exposure, edges of cover label rubbed; dust jacket, few closed tears, nicks to spine panel head, smudging; front hinge cracked, Sophie Treadwell ownership signature in pencil to half-title. Garden City: Doubleday, Page and Company, 1952 [700/1,000] first edition , limited to 500 copies signed by the author , this number 262, specially bound by the publisher “for their friends among the bookmen” none of which were for sale. Ex-collection Sophie Treadwell, author of some 40 plays, and one of only a few women dramatists who directed and produced many of her own works. E N D O F S A L E 309