MacGREEVY, Thomas. Jack B. Yeats. An Appreciation and an Interpretation (WITH AN ORIGINAL SKETCH BY JACK B. YEATS SIGNED BY HIM, THOMAS MacGREEVY & VICTOR WADDINGTON)

Illustrated. Dublin: Planned, Printed and bound in Ireland by Colm O Lochlainn at the Sign of the Three Candles, Fleet Street, for Victor Waddington, 1945. Crown octavo. pp. 39, 20 (plates). Original grey paper boards, lettered in purple. With an original sketch by Jack B. Yeats of a horse running on a strand with a sailing boat in the bay, dated and signed by him at Dublin May 9, 1950. Also signed by Thomas MacGreevy and Victor Waddington. A fine unique copy with an original sketch by Jack B. Yeats in rare dust jacket.
With 20 re-productions of illustrations by Jack B. Yeats: The Enthusiasts; The Kerry Mascot; A Westerly Wind; Derrynane; The Funeral of Harry Boland; Bachelor’s Walk; The Island Funeral; The Breakout; Portrait of a Lady; The Ass and Foal; Going to Wolfe Tone’s Grave; Stranger in the Circus; About to Write a Letter; Helen; In Memory of Boucicault and Bianconi; Tinkers’ Encampment. The Blood of Abel; Dumas; Evening Light; Drama; Low Tide on the Garavogue.

[Cat 157]