[Rarebooks] FS: IRISH LITERARY RARITY: A.E. Verses for Friends, 1/25 copies inscribed with original watercolor

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A.E.  (RUSSELL,  George  William). VERSES  FOR  FRIENDS.
         Dublin: Printed for the Writer 1932. First Edition. Small 12-
         page stitched  pamphlet  with the front cover decorated  with
         an ORIGINAL  CRAYON & INK SKETCH by the artist depicting  two
         people  on  the  shore of a lake. Denson 51. One of  only  25
         copies  printed for private circulation of which at least  17
         are now  in  institutions. INSCRIBED beneath the drawing  "To
         my dear  Mary  Rumsy/with much affection  AE/December  1932."
         With a  7-7/8"  x 5" ORIGINAL WATERCOLOR on paper  attributed
         to A.E.   and  in  his  style   of  a  landscape  with  hills
         dominating  in  the distance. At the age of 20, Russell  felt
         the presence  of supernatural beings in hills south of Dublin
         and not  long after began to paint to express his  attraction
         toward  mysticism. An active member of the Irish  nationalist
         movement,  Russell  was also one of the major writers in  the
         Irish literary  renaissance.  At  the age of 17  he  met  the
         19-year-old  William Yeats at the School of Art. Though their
         relationship  suffered  at  times,   they  remained  lifelong
         friends.  Later Yeats would call him "the most spiritual  and
         subtle  poet of his generation, and a visionary who may  find
         some room  beside  Swedenborg  and   Blake"  (Richard  Lines,
         Swedenborg  Movement  Newsletter, No. 28 1998). In 1902  John
         Quinn commissioned  A.E.  to  paint   a  portrait  of  Yeats.
         Russell's  wife  Violet died the year of publication of  this
         slim volume;   the  distinguished   poet,  Theosophist,   and
         Economist  himself  died  in  1935. Few brief  tears  to  the
         watercolor; book Fine. Fine and very scarce.         $3500.00

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