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The Shadowy Waters. W B Yeats. 1900
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Yeats, William Butler. The Shadowy Waters. Hodder and Stoughton, 1900. 1st Edition. Small 4to. Blue cloth, gilt decoration to front, title to spine. Top edge gilt. PP57. Binding edges have very light shelf wear. All pages in fine condition. Presentation copy, inscription on front endpaper reads "To Townsend Walsh, with the sincere regards of John Quinn, my birthday April 24, 1901". John Quinn (1870-1924) was a second generation Irish-American lawyer in New York and patron of modernist literature. He was a friend of Yeats, Joseph Conrad, and Ezra Pound and legal defender of James Joyce and T.S. Eliot, and organized the 1913 Armory Show of modern art in New York. Townsend Walsh (1872-1935) was a theatrical agent, playwright and author, and a close friend of Walsh.
Cat. No. 92176                                            £900

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