YEATS, WILLIAM BUTLER | October Blast. Dublin: The Cuala Press, 1927

The Property of a Gentleman

YEATS, WILLIAM BUTLER 

October Blast. Dublin: The Cuala Press, 1927

8vo (5 5/8 x 8 1/4 in.; 146 x 210 mm). Woodcut title device by T. Sturge Moore, colophon printed in red; minor toning, one or two stray spots. Blue paper covered boards, upper board printed in black, linen spine, paper label to spine, blue endpapers; some toning to spine, chips to label. In custom blue and cream colored linen clamshell case.  

First edition, one of 350 copies, printed on paper made in Ireland  

"That is no country for old men. The young

In one another's arms, birds in the trees,

—Those dying generations—at their song..." - Yeats "Sailing to Byzantium"

The first appearance of Yeats’ iconic “Sailing to Byzantium” 

REFERENCES

Wade 156

PROVENANCE

George R.M. Ewing Jr. (bookplate to front pastedown