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Yeats, William Butler
Estimate
2,000 - 3,000 USD
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Description
- The Wanderings of Oisin and other Poems. London: Keegan Paul, Trench & Co., 1889.
- Paper, ink, leather
8vo (179 x 120 mm). Original blue cloth lettered in gilt on upper cover and spine, publisher's monogram blindstamped on the lower cover; front hinge cracked and lower corners a little bumped but a fresh bright copy.
Literature
Hayward 295; Symons p. 3; Wade 2
Catalogue Note
first edition, one of only 500 copies, of Yeats's first regularly-published book ). Sold by subscription, it did poorly and the unsold sheets were later issued by another publisher. The present copy is in the preferred binding.