1935 Wheels and Butterflies

Description

First Edition, Publishers' Original Binding

The first U.S. edition.

In the publisher's cloth binding, with gilt stamp to the front board.

A collection of five short dramatic pieces, including The Words Upon the Window-Pane, Fighting the Waves, The Resurrection, The Cat and the Moon and Music to 'Fighting the Waves'. 

With woodcut to the title. 

From celebrated Irish poet and dramatist W. B. Yeats, one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. A driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival and founder of the Abbey Theatre, he was awarded the 1923 Nobel Prize in Literature. With major works including The Land of Heart's Desire, Cathleen ni Houlihan and Deirdre. 

From the library of Milton McCormick Gatch (1932-2023) who was Dean, Provost and Librarian at Union Theological Seminary and a longtime co-priest-in-charge at the Chapel of St. James the Fisherman in Wellfleet, Massachusetts.

Also from the library of Marion Witt, a Yeats scholar who has contributed articles concerning his life and work to journals such as the Modern Language Association of America.