A group of poetry volumes

including Emily Dickinson, Poems; WB Yeats, The Variorum Edition of The Poems; The Langston Hughes Reader; The Books of Irish Verse; and other titles. Approximately 160 volumes. 

The volumes of this lot were part of the reading library of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon. All the volumes are modern editions. They are in good general condition.
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