[Rarebooks] Unusual Children's Book

[Garry R Austin]

We offer this unusual children's piece. Net to all & postpaid. $50.00

Yeats, Jack B.  THE BOSUN AND THE BOB-TAILED COMET. London: Elkin Mathews, (1904). Duodecimo. Original printed pictorial blue wrappers. 20pp. plus 4pp. ads. Illustrated.  Eighteen plates. Very good.Endpapers foxed, interior is fine. Parker & Son Ltd. Oxford, booksellers tag at foot of front paste-down. Villanova Library source; "Jack Butler Yeats is one of Ireland’s great modern painters of the early twentieth century. Outside of Ireland he is perhaps most well-known as the brother of the poet William Butler Yeats...The first of Yeats’ illustrated books for children, this work tells the story of a sailor who after being paid by his ship discovers a comet which he ties up and rides. This imaginative story is one of several plays and illustrations which Yeats did with a nautical theme. All of his children’s works share this theme, evidenced by their titles: A Little Fleet, James Flaunty, or the Terror of the Western Seas, The Treasure of the Garden, The Scourge of the Gulph, etc.".    


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