Sale 553 - Rare Books & Manuscripts with Early Medical Works from the George Bray Collection (At Oakland, Sunday, 8:00 am) (#553) 02/08/2015 8:00 AM PST CLOSED!

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Lot 4 of 196:
Arion Press Yeats' Poems  

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Lot closed - Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium):$2,040
Estimate:
$1,500 - $2,500

Title:
Poems of W.B. Yeats

Author:
Yeats, William Butler

Place:
San Francisco

Publisher:
Arion Press

Date:
[1990]

Description:

Selected and introduced by Helen Vendler. Illustrated with 6 etchings by Richard Diebenkorn. (26x20 cm (10¼x7¾")  red morocco-backed green linen, slipcase. No. 328 of 400 numbered copies from a total edition of 426 copies.

Signed by Diebenkorn on limitation page. Accompanied by the prospectus for Yeats's Poems, and also by an Arion Press keepsake from 1991, "Yeats's Paradises," the text by Helen Vendler, in wrappers, limited to 350 copies. There is a signed letter from Arion Press proprietor Andrew Hoyem presenting the keepsake. No copies of the Arion Press Yeats' Poems are currently available online, and copies with both the prospectus and the keepsake quite uncommon.


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Condition:
Fine condition.


 
Item number:
256326
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