COLUM, Padraic (1881-1972). A group of 4 works and a small archive of correspondence, comprising:

Broad-Sheet Ballads. Being a Collection of Irish Popular Songs with an Introduction by Padraic Colum. Baltimore, 1914. 8vo. (Endpapers a little foxed.) Original cloth. Provenance: Louis V. Ledoux (bookplate). -- COLUM. Three Plays. Boston, 1916. 8vo. Original cloth. INSCRIBED BY COLUM on front free endpaper: “Good luck to the possessor! / Padraic Colum / Cornwall-on-Hudson / 28th. October 1916”. Provenance: Louis V. Ledoux (bookplate). With an ALs laid in from Colum to Ledoux, [n.d.]. 1 p, 4to, with original envelope. -- COLUM. Wild Earth and Other Poems. New York, 1916. 8vo. Original cloth. Provenance: Louis V. Ledoux (bookplate). INSCRIBED BY COLUM to Ledoux on front free endpaper, dated Dec. 1916. -- COLUM. Dramatic Legends and Other Poems. New York, 1922. 8vo. Original cloth-backed boards.

[With:] Approximately 19 autograph or typed letters signed, written by Colum to Louis V. Ledoux, 1915-1917. Written in a warm friendly tone, primarily relating to books, poetry, travels and arranging visits: "Would you care to have those intolerable people, the Colums, visit with you for a few days next week?"

[Also with:] YEATS, William Butler. Samhain. London: Sealy Bryers & Walker and T. Fisher Unwin, 1903. One volume only (of 7), 8vo. Original wrappers. SIGNED BY YEATS on the cover.

Property from Historic Sengen House, Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York