YEATS, WILLIAM BUTLER | Three Early First Editions

The Property of a Gentleman

 YEATS, WILLIAM BUTLER

Three Early First Editions

The Celtic Twilight. Men and Women, Dhouls and Faeries. London: Lawrence and Bullen, 1893. 8vo (3 3/4 x 6 1/2 in.; 95 x 162 mm). Publisher's advertisements at front, frontispiece portrait by Jack B. Yeats, title-page printed in red and black. Original full green ribbed cloth, spine gilt lettered; extremities just rubbed. In custom blue and cream linen covered clamshell case. First edition. Wade 8 — The Wind Among the Reeds. London: Elkin Mathews, 1899. 8vo (4 3/4 x 7 1/2 in.; 120 x 192 mm). Half-title; minor foxing. Original full blue cloth, with elaborate design in gilt by Althea Gyles, uncut; minor rubbing to gilt. In custom blue and cream linen covered clamshell case. First edition. Wade 27 — In the Seven Woods: Being Poems Chiefly of the Irish Heroic Age. Dundrum [Dublin]: The Dun Emer Press, 1903. 8vo (5 5/8 x 8 1/4 in.; 145 x 210 mm). Printed in red and black; minor toning. Original cream colored cloth over boards, paper label printed in red to upper boards; minor toning, some foxing to endleaves. In custom blue and buff linen over board clamshell case. First edition, one of 325 copies printed. 

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A fine collection of early Yeats first editions

The present titles move from a volume of Irish country tales often laced with supernatural aspects, through Yeats’ most memorable early love poetry, to the verse that marked the beginning of the Poet's "middle period," in which he shifted away from his previous preferences for Romantic ideals and pre-Raphaelite imagery, and began moving toward a more spare style reminiscent of Walter Savage Landor.