Poems and Translations. [Preface by W.B. Yeats]

New York: Printed for John Quinn, 1909. One of 50 copies on paper. xvi, 44 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Linen backed boards, printed label on upper cover, t.e.g., others uncut. Minor toning and soiling to boards, else fine. One of 50 copies on paper. xvi, 44 pp. 1 vols. 4to. Inscribed on the flyleaf by the collector John Quinn, patron of this edition, “To F.J. White with the regards of John Quinn New York July 16, 1909.”

The preface by Yeats is dated ten days after Synge’s death. Yeats wrote, “The whole book is of a kind almost unknown in a time when lyricism has become abstract and impersonal”. Colbeck II:828; Quinn 9981; Wade 244