Item #111047 The Arrow. W.B. Yeats Commemoration Number. Summer, 1939 [cover title]. William Butler YEATS.
The Arrow. W.B. Yeats Commemoration Number. Summer, 1939 [cover title]
The Arrow. W.B. Yeats Commemoration Number. Summer, 1939 [cover title]

The Arrow. W.B. Yeats Commemoration Number. Summer, 1939 [cover title]

Dublin, The Abbey Theatre, 1939.

Quarto, 24 pages with numerous advertisements plus four pages of plates featuring illustrations by J. B. Yeats, Charles Shannon, Sean O'Sullivan, Edmund Dulac and Sir Max Beerbohm.

Pictorial wrappers lightly rubbed, tanned and creased, with a light vertical crease to the entire journal; staples slightly rusty; a very good copy.

The sixth and final issue. 'The Arrow is an occasional, a very occasional, publication by the Abbey Theatre. Only four [in fact five] numbers of it have appeared, two in 1906, one in 1907, 1908 and 1909. Its purpose was to comment on the work of the Theatre, to announce new plans and to answer criticisms ... Last autumn the Directors planned to publish an Arrow dealing with the Theatre's policy and replying to some of its critics and preparations for this number were far advanced. Then came Mr. Yeats's death, and we thought it more fitting to postpone that controversial number and to have in its stead an "Arrow" in which some who knew him well could write of him and his work from different aspects' (from the foreword). Contributors include John Masefield, Austin Clarke, Edmund Dulac, Sir William Rothenstein and Lennox Robinson.

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