The Hour-Glass: Manuscript Materials
by W. B. Yeats
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- Hardcover
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- ISBN 10
- 080142982X
- ISBN 13
- 9780801429828
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About This Item
The Hour-Glass: Manuscript Materials, W. B. Yeats. Published by Cornell University Press, 1994. 8vo up to 9½" tall., 408pp.
Blue cloth boards with gilt spine titles, blue endpapers. In fine condition with small remainder mark to lower outside edge; light wear to dustjacket.
Based on a folktale called "The Priest's Soul," which Yeats first encountered in 1888, The Hour-Glass was written as both a play in prose and a drama in verse over the course of more than thirty years. This volume brings together all extant manuscripts of The Hour-Glass, from a handwritten three-page fragment of the 1902 prose version to Yeats's typescripts of the 1922 verse rendition.
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- Back Lane Books (Member of IOBA) (CA)
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- Title
- The Hour-Glass: Manuscript Materials
- Author
- W. B. Yeats
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 080142982X
- ISBN 13
- 9780801429828
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Place of Publication
- -
- This edition first published
- 1994
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