Exhibition Checklist

This checklist is only a partial record of the exhibition. Unless otherwise indicated, all materials are from the holdings of the Rare Book Collection (RBC) in Wilson Library. Yeats materials are generally from the George Harper Collection of William Butler Yeats. Printed materials by or about Shaw are from the Archibald Henderson Collection of George Bernard Shaw. Most Heaney materials are from the Henry C. Pearson Collection of Seamus Heaney. Beckett materials have been selected from either the Grove Press Collection or the general holdings of the RBC.


    William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)

  1. William Butler Yeats. Mosada: A Dramatic Poem. Dublin: Printed by Sealy, Bryers, and Walker, 1886. First edition.
  2. William Butler Yeats (editor). Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry. London: Walter Scott, 1888. First edition.
  3. William Butler Yeats. The Wanderings of Oisin, and Other Poems. London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1889. First edition.
  4. William Butler Yeats. The Countess Cathleen. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1892. First edition.
  5. William Butler Yeats. The Land of Heart's Desire. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1894. First edition.
  6. William Butler Yeats. Poems. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1895. First edition.
  7. William Butler Yeats. Cathleen ni Hoolihan. London: Caradoc Press, 1902. First edition.
  8. William Butler Yeats. On Baile's Strand. Dublin: Maunsel, 1905.
  9. William Butler Yeats. Michael Robartes and the Dancer. Churchtown, Dundrum: The Cuala Press, 1920. First edition.
  10. William Butler Yeats. The Irish Dramatic Movement: A Lecture Delivered to the Royal Academy of Sweden. Stockholm: P. A. Norstedt & Fils, 1924. First edition.
  11. William Butler Yeats. The Tower. London: Macmillan and Co., 1928. First edition.
  12. William Butler Yeats. The Winding Stair and Other Poems. London: Macmillan and Co., 1933. First edition.
  13. William Butler Yeats. On the Boiler. Dublin: The Cuala Press, 1938. First edition.

    14. George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
  14. [George Bernard Shaw.] A Manifesto. London: Geo. Standring, 1884. Fabian Tracts, No. 2.
  15. George Bernard Shaw. The Fabian Society: What It Has Done; & How It Has Done It. London: Fabian Society, 1892. Fabian Tract, No. 41.
  16. George Bernard Shaw. Cashel Byron's Profession. London: Modern Press, 1886. First separate issue.
  17. George Bernard Shaw. The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism. London: Constable, 1928. First edition.
  18. George Bernard Shaw. The Quintessence of Ibsenism. London: Walter Scott, 1891. First edition.
  19. George Bernard Shaw. Plays: Pleasant and Unpleasant. London: Grant Richards, 1898. Two volumes. First edition.
  20. George Bernard Shaw. Man and Superman. London: Constable, [1911]. Popular edition.
  21. George Bernard Shaw. "Pygmalion: A Romance in Five Acts." Everybody's Magazine, November 1914. Illustrations by May Wilson Preston.
  22. George Bernard Shaw. Major Barbara. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1941.
  23. George Bernard Shaw. John Bull's Other Island and Major Barbara. New York: Brentano's, 1907. First edition.
  24. George Bernard Shaw. The Shewing-up of Blanco Posnet. [London, ca. 1909]. Shaw's own typed prompt copy.
  25. George Bernard Shaw. O'Flaherty, V. C.: An Interlude in the Great War of 1914. Edinburgh: Printed by R. & R. Clark, 1915. Rough proof.
  26. George Bernard Shaw. Saint Joan. London: Constable, 1924. Edition de Luxe, limited to 750 copies.
  27. George Bernard Shaw. The Apple Cart: A Political Extravaganza. London: Constable, 1930. First English edition.
  28. George Bernard Shaw. Shakes versus Shav. [N.p.], 1949. Rough proof (unbound). Bears ink stamp of R. and R. Clark, Ltd., Edinburgh, dated "26 Feb 1949."

    29. Samuel Beckett (1906-1989)
  29. Samuel Beckett. Whoroscope. Paris: Hours Press, 1930. First edition. One of 100 numbered copies, signed by the author. With the original publisher's printed publicity band around the wrappers.
  30. Samuel Beckett. More Pricks Than Kicks. London: Chatto and Windus, 1934. First edition.
  31. Samuel Beckett. Echo's Bones. Paris: Europa Press, 1935. First edition.
  32. Samuel Beckett. Watt. Paris: Olympia Press, 1953. First edition.
  33. Samuel Beckett. Molloy. Paris: Editions de Minuit, 1951. Number 194 of 500 copies of the limited first edition.
  34. Samuel Beckett. Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable. London: John Calder, 1959. First English edition. This copy inscribed by the author to Jack and Gloria MacGowran. Extensively annotated by actor Jack MacGowran, Beckett's close friend.
  35. Samuel Beckett. En attendant Godot. Paris: Editions de Minuit, 1952. First trade edition.
  36. Samuel Beckett. Waiting for Godot: Tragicomedy in 2 Acts. Translated from the French by the author. New York: Grove Press, 1954. First American edition, hardcover issue.
  37. Samuel Beckett. Fin de partie, Suivi de Acte sans paroles. Paris: Editions de Minuit, 1957. First trade edition. With publisher's questionnaire laid in.
  38. Samuel Beckett. Endgame: A Play in One Act, Followed by Act Without Words, a Mime for One Player. Translated from the French by the author. New York: Grove Press, 1958. First American edition.
  39. Samuel Beckett. Happy Days. New York: Grove Press, 1961. First edition.
  40. Samuel Beckett. Poems in English. London: John Calder, 1961. First English edition. This copy is signed by the author. The copy has also been signed by Jack MacGowran, and extensively annotated by him throughout the volume.
  41. Samuel Beckett. L'Issue. Paris: Editions Georges Visat, 1968. First edition. Number 60 in an edition of 139 copies. With six original engravings by Avigdor Arikha.
  42. Samuel Beckett. Breath and Other Shorts. London: Faber and Faber, 1971. First English edition.
  43. Samuel Beckett. Stirrings Still. New York: Blue Moon Books; London: John Calder, 1988. First edition. Number 133 in an edition of 200 copies. Illustrated with nine lithographic drawings by Louis le Brocquy.

    44. Seamus Heaney (1939- )
  44. Seamus Heaney. "Mid-Term Break." The Kilkenny Magazine, no. 9 (Spring 1963). This copy inscribed by the author to Henry Pearson.
  45. Seamus Heaney. Eleven Poems. Belfast: Festival Publications, Queen's University, 1965. First edition, first printing.
  46. Seamus Heaney. Death of a Naturalist. London: Faber and Faber, 1966. First edition. This copy inscribed by the author to Henry Pearson.
  47. Seamus Heaney. Night Drive. Bow, Crediton, Devon: Richard Gilbertson, 1970. First edition. Copy number 1 of 50 printed, with all poems written out in the author's hand on blank pages facing the appropriate printed texts.
  48. Seamus Heaney. Bog Poems. Illustrated by Barrie Cooke. London: Rainbow Press, 1975. Issued in a limited edition of 150 copies signed by the author.
  49. Seamus Heaney. Wintering Out. London: Faber and Faber, 1972. First edition.
  50. Seamus Heaney. North. London: Faber and Faber, 1975. First edition.
  51. Seamus Heaney. Field Work. London: Faber and Faber, 1979. First edition.
  52. Seamus Heaney. Poems and a Memoir. New York: Limited Editions Club, 1982. Selected and illustrated by Henry Pearson, with an introduction by Thomas Flanagan and a preface by Seamus Heaney. Copy "H. P.," signed by Heaney, Pearson, and Flanagan. First edition.
  53. Seamus Heaney. An Open Letter. Derry: Field Day Theatre Co., 1983. First edition.
  54. Seamus Heaney. The Cure at Troy: A Version of Sophocles' Philoctetes. Derry: Field Day, 1990. First edition.
  55. Seamus Heaney. Crediting Poetry: The Nobel Lecture. London: Privately printed for Faber and Faber, 1995. One of 500 copies printed for private circulation.
  56. Seamus Heaney (translator). Beowulf. London: Faber and Faber, 1999. First edition.
  57. Sophocles. The Burial at Thebes: Sophocles' Antigone. Translated by Seamus Heaney. London: Faber and Faber, 2004. First edition.
  58. Seamus Heaney. District and Circle. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006. First American edition.


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