Complete Set of Macmillan's Limited Editions of Yeats' Works, each volume signed by Yeats
by Yeats, W.B.
1924. New York: Macmillan, 1924-1927. 6 vols, 8vo. Each vol. bound in the original quarter robin's egg cloth over paper covered boards with printed labels, pastedowns with Charles Ricketts' illustration of hawk, unicorn, fountain and moon. Very good copies with almost no foxing and just occasional browning of endpapers, backstrips and backstrip labels expertly restored. Gift inscription in Early Poems presenting the set to a Vassar graduate of 1946. § A complete set of Macmillan's limited... Read More
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The Trembling of the Veil
by Yeats, William Butler
1922. London: T. Werner Laurie, Ltd, 1922. 8vo, frontispiece, (2), vii, (1 blank), 247, (1) pp. Original white and blue boards with paper-label on backstrip (slightly toned), matching blue endpapers and roughtrimmed edges. A very good copy as issued. § First edition, number 213 of 1000 copies signed by the author and printed on handmade paper. The Trembling of the Veil was the second of Yeats's seven autobiographical works, and was described by Arthur Symons as... Read More
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The Winding Stair
by Yeats, William Butler
1929. New York: The Fountain Press, 1929. 8vo, 26, [1] pp. Original blue cloth, red morocco labels to spine, spine lettered in gilt, floral roll to boards gilt, purple endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Very good copy seldom found better. § Copy #178 of 642 copies signed by Yeats at the front. This is the true first appearance of The Winding Stair collection, Yeats's follow up to The Tower (1928), which was later published in... Read More
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The Aldine Edition of the British Poets. The Poetical Works of Edward Young
by Young, Edward. Mitford, J. [ed.]
1844. London: William Pickering, 1844. Two vols., 8vo., lvii, 298; vi, 334 pp., engraved frontisportrait, and Aldine device on title-page. Contemporary half green calf, red marbled boards heightened in gilt, five raised bands with gilt-tooled panel decoration to backstrip, red and black morocco label strips with title information in gilt to backstrip, marbled endpapers. Joints and corners of boards have some slight rubbing, minor foxing to outer margins; otherwise very good. Bookplate of Thomas Lee Marshall to... Read More
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