May 07, 2014 - Sale 2349

Sale 2349 - Lot 39

Price Realized: $ 688
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
ALS BY ELIZABETH YEATS TO SPINGARN ON BROTHER JACK'S ART (CUALA PRESS.) Yeats, William Butler. Stories of Michael Robartes and His Friends: An Extract From a Record Made By His Pupils: And A Play in Prose. Printed in red and black. Unicorn device by Edmund Dulac on title, 2 plates by Dulac printed on grey paper. 8vo, original cloth-backed boards with printed paper spine label; original plain cream paper dust jacket, toned, heaviest at spine panel which is chipped at ends. first limited edition. one of 450 unnumbered copies. Miller 47; Wade 167. Dublin, 1931

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with--an autograph letter signed by elizabeth yeats to the great american civil rights activist, lawyer, and literary critic, arthur b.spingarn, about her brother, the artist, jack b. yeats's art exhibition opening at Ferargil Galleries in New York in March of that year and urging him to tell friends about it. "I do believe his work will live. I know W. B. [William Butler Yeats] and also all the great art critics think he is among really great artists Ireland has produced." 19 February, 1932. 1 page, 8vo, folded, on her Cuala Industries letterhead with woodcut vignette. With envelope.