Lot 680
Yeats, W.B.
Rare Books, Maps & Manuscripts
Auction: Rare Books, Maps & Manuscripts
£1,500
Description
Mosada. Dublin: Cuala Press, 1943. 8vo., frontispiece, original cream parchment wrappers, uncut and unopened, original glassine wrappers, small split in upper glassine wrapper, slight warping of the parchment wrapper
Footnote
Provenance: According to Sotheby's (Sale 13. December 2007, lot 151) Lily Yeats's copy.
Note: Miller p.131; Wade 206. No. 49 of 50 copies. Privately printed and not available for sale. First included in the Dublin University Review, this dramatic poem, here reprinted, was Yeats's first publication. The orginal issue in 1886 is one of the most celebtaited rearities of moden English literature.