Lot 148
  • 148

Yeats, W.B.

Estimate
800 - 1,200 GBP
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Description

  • Yeats, W.B.
  • Collection of eleven works in twelve volumes, comprising:
  • PAPER
The Shadowy Waters, Hodder and Stoughton, 1900, [Wade 30], bookplate; The Green Helmet…, Macmillan, 1912, [Wade 101]; Reveries over Childhood & Youth, Macmillan, 1916, frontispiece, [Wade 113], later collector's signature; Responsibilities, Macmillan, 1917, second edition, [Wade p. 121], later collector's inscription; Per Amica Silentia Lunae, Macmillan, 1918, [Wade 120]; The Wild Swans at Coole, Macmillan, 1919, [Wade 124]; Four Years, Dublin: Cuala Press, 1921, one of 400 copies, [Wade 131]; Early Poems and Stories, Macmillan, 1925, [Wade 147], DUST-JACKET; Autobiographies, Macmillan, 1926, [Wade 151], DUST-JACKET; The Tower, Macmillan, 1928, [Wade 158], rubbed and bumped at extremities; The Speckled Bird, Dublin: Cuala Press, 1973-74, 2 vol., number 186 of 500 copies, slipcase; all 8vo, original bindings, occasional spotting and browning, some bindings slightly bumped or rubbed (12)

Condition

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