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Mary Sprague's artist book of Yeats Unnoticed Like a Bird
Mary Sprague's artist book of Yeats Unnoticed Like a Bird
Mary Sprague's artist book of Yeats Unnoticed Like a Bird
Mary Sprague's artist book of Yeats Unnoticed Like a Bird
Mary Sprague's artist book of Yeats Unnoticed Like a Bird
Mary Sprague's artist book of Yeats Unnoticed Like a Bird
Mary Sprague's artist book of Yeats Unnoticed Like a Bird
Mary Sprague's artist book of Yeats Unnoticed Like a Bird
Mary Sprague's artist book of Yeats Unnoticed Like a Bird
Mary Sprague's artist book of Yeats Unnoticed Like a Bird
Mary Sprague's artist book of Yeats Unnoticed Like a Bird
Mary Sprague's artist book of Yeats Unnoticed Like a Bird
Mary Sprague's artist book of Yeats Unnoticed Like a Bird
Mary Sprague's artist book of Yeats Unnoticed Like a Bird
Mary Sprague's artist book of Yeats Unnoticed Like a Bird
Mary Sprague's artist book of Yeats Unnoticed Like a Bird
Kevin F. Kelly, bookseller LLC

Mary Sprague's artist book of Yeats Unnoticed Like a Bird

$750.00 $0.00

Poetry by William Butler Yeats | Unnoticed Like a Bird |Illustrations by Mary Sprague. [n.p], Single Tree Press 1987 [the whole over a cream-printed illustration across both pages]

32.4 × 24.0; pp. 24: comprising blank leaf, pp. [1-2]; blank page, p. [3]; pp.

[4-5] stuck together, it would appear intentionally, title, pp. [6-7]; p. [8] with tipped-on illustration sheet; text, pp. [9-10] with first poem on a sheet tipped over the second on p. [10]; illustration sheets, tipped to recto and verso, pp.

[11-12], text, p. [13]; double page illustration, with text printed on recto under tipped-on sheet printed with the right half of the illustration, pp.

[14-15]; verso with tipped-on illustration sheet, p. [16]; text, verso with tipped-on illustration sheet, pp. [17-18]; text, verso blank, pp. [19-20]; colophon, verso blank, pp. [21-22]; copyright details, verso blank, pp.

[23-24]. Apart from that on the title pages, all illustrations are printed black.

The illustration on the title pages is an enlarged detail of that on pp. [14-15].

All tipped-on sheets apart from that on p. [15], which is tipped along the fore edge, are attached to the heads of the pages.

Issued in thick abstract patterned flax-paper covers, sewn, all edges untrimmed; no end-papers..

The colophon reads: Colophon, Unnoticed Like a Bird is the result of a year-long collaborative effort by Mary Sprague and Betty C. Bowen. The cover stock was made of flax by Jana Pullman. Mary hand-printed the illustrations on Sekishu Natural. The text is Centaur, printed on Nideggen. With thanks to Ray Gloeckler, this copy is number [35] in an edition of [35]. May 20, 1987°. Both numbers are written in pencil.

Contents

The Collar-Bone of a Hare

Two Songs of a Fool

The Dawn

The Three Hermits

The Magi

The Nineteenth Century and After

"This description is taken from a copy belonging to Kevin F. Kelly Bookseller, of New Paltz NY, who very kindly provided me with scans of the entire volume. " -Gentleman I wish I could reconnect with who was writing a bibliography of Yeats. This is a lovely book, and scarce by nature of it's limitation.