Wild Apples: By Oliver Gogarty, With Preface By William Butler Yeats.
1930. Dublin, Ireland: The Cuala Press, 1930.
8vo, 30 pp., title page printed in black and red with Cuala Press device. Signed on the first flyleaf in ink by the author and dated Dublin, 28 March 1930. Quarter white linen and blue paper boards, letterpress title to upper board, printed paper label inlaid to backstrip. An attractive copy, though with ex-library markings: adhesive residue on backstrip, corners slightly bumped, library stamp in blind to title-page, library bookplate and pocket on front and back pastedown; otherwise very good.
§ First edition thus, signed and dated by the author, one of 250 copies printed on paper made in Ireland, and published by Elizabeth Corbet Yeats, at the Cuala Press. The poems were selected by W.B.Yeats who also wrote the preface. It was preceded by the 1926 private edition of 50 copies which did not include the preface. Gogarty was an Irish poet, politician, and pilot, and, among many other things, the inspiration for Buck Mulligan in James Joyce's Ulysses. Wade 131. Item #106592
Price: $350.00