YEATS, William Butler. The Cutting of an Agate.
New York: Macmillan, 1912. First edition. (precedes the English edition).
8vo.,
orig. green paper boards, printed labels on the spine and upper cover.
Lacking the front free e/paper o/w a better than very good but not quite near fine copy.
YEATS-BROWN, Francis. Lancer At Large.
New York: Viking Press, 1937. Uncorrected proof of the first U.S. edition.l
Tall narrow 4to.,
orig. wrappers with a printed label afixed to the upper wrapper,
90pp. rectos only. There are actually 180 pp as what would be the versos, are numbered with 1/2, so the pagination runs pp. 1, 1 1/2, 2, 2 1/2 etc. There is a dampstain in the right-hand margin which penetrates into the text of the first dozen leaves, last leaf is a bit crumpled along the edge o/w this is a very good copy.
The author, a former officer in the British army in India, is a best remembered for his memoir, Lives of a Bengal Lancer, published in 1930.
YEVTUSHENKO, Vevgeny. Stolen Apples. Poetry by.....With English adaptions by James Dickey, Geoffrey Dutton, Lawrence Ferlinghetti....John Updike, Richard Wilbur.
Garden City: Doubleday, 1971. First edition. With a signed presentation inscription from the author.
Fine in a price clipped d/w with some wear to the spine ends and a short tear on the rear panel.