William Butler Yeats

4to (328 x 270mm.), unbound as issued, illustrated with two colour etchings by Miró, ONE OF 100 COPIES ON JOHANNOT-VELIN (out of a total edition of 150 copies) CONTAINING AN EXTRA SUITE OF THE COLOUR ETCHINGS SIGNED AND NUMBERED BY THE ARTIST, simultaneous English and French text, signed by the artist and translator on the colophon page, PRESENTATION COPY INSCRIBED BY MIRO TO MICHAEL YEATS ON FRONT ENDPAPER BENEATH AN ORIGINAL ABSTRACT DRAWING IN ORANGE, BROWN, GREEN, BLACK, BLUE, BLACK AND PURPLE CRAYON ("Miró |à M. Yeats, amicalement"), original green cloth case and slipcase

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A superb presentation copy of this fine illustrated book by Miró, a new English/French edition of Yeats's celebrated poem "The Wind Among the Reeds", inscribed to the author's son, the barrister and Fianna Fáil politician Michael Yeats (1921--2007).