The Arrow. W. B. Yeats Commemoration Number.

4to, 24 pp. With four pages of illustrations (by J. B. Yeats, Charles Shannon, Sean O'Sullivan, Max Beerbohm and Edmund Dulac). Stapled. In original grey printed wraps. Aged and dog-eared, in worn wraps. The introduction, by 'L. R.', explains that 'THE ARROW is an occasional, a very occasional, publication by the Abbey Theatre. Only four numbers of it have appeared, two in 1906, one in 1907, 1908 and 1909.' Essays by John Masefield ('William Butler Yeats'), F. R. Higgins ('An Irish Poet'), Austin Clarke ('As Poet and Artist'), Richard Hayes ('His Nationalism'), Gordon Bottomley ('His Legacy to the Theatre'), Edmund Dulac ('Without the Twilight'), Lennox Robinson ('As Man of the Theatre'), and 'Three Impressions' (by Sir William Rothenstein, W. J. Turner and Oliver St. J. Gogarty). With cuttings of two articles: 'Speaking with his own tongue' by John Broadbent (TIme and Tide, 2 March 1961) and 'The Dreaming of the Abbey' by Elizabeth Coxhead (The Guardian, 1 August 1961).