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Printed Books, Manuscripts and Artwork
5:00 AM PT - Dec 11th, 2008

 

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Bloomsbury Auctions

 

Bloomsbury House
24 Maddox Street
Mayfair, London, W1 S1PP
Uk Auction

 

       

Lot 358D save

Rivers.Stranger in Aran,1/280,h'col.,Cuala, 1946

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Rivers (Elizabeth) Stranger in Aran,
number 31 of 280 copies, title vignette and illustrations by the author, some full-page, 4 hand-coloured, original cloth-backed pictorial boards, uncut, spine very slightly soiled otherwise a very good copy, [Miller 77], 8vo, Dublin, Cuala Press, 1946.

***The final book issued by the press under the supervision of Mrs. W.B.Yeats. "Although the 1946 list announced one further title, Landor and Ireland, by Maurice James Craig, for July 1947, the book did not appear and publication of Cuala Press books was suspended. The Press continued to issue hand coloured prints and greeting cards. Lily Yeats died in 1949 and Mrs. W.B. Yeats continued to manage Cuala until her death in August 1968." Miller .

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