Lot 686
Yeats, W.B.
Rare Books, Maps & Manuscripts
Auction: Rare Books, Maps & Manuscripts
Description
The wind among the reeds. London: Elkin Mathews, 1899. First edition, 8vo., original dark blue cloth with a design by Althea Gyles on both covers, uncut, covers rubbed and partly faded (Wade 27) with the errors listed by Wade and without the errata slip; [Idem] A book of Irish verse selected from modern writers, with an introduction and notes. London: Methuen and Co., 1895. First edition, 8vo., publisher's green cloth, uncut, very slight rubbing to joints (Wade 225); [Idem] Fairy and folk tales of the Irish peasantry, edited and selected by W.B. Years. London: Walter Scott, [n.d., c. 1888]. First edition, later issue without the date on the titlepage, with 6pp. of adverts at the end, publisher's blue cloth, printed paper spine label, uncut, label rubbed, slight discolouration of endpapers. (Wade 212); [Idem] The Shananchie: an Irish miscellany illustrated. [Nol. 1 Spring, 1906]. Dublin: Maunsel & Co. Ltd., 1906. 4to., printed blue wrappers. Wade p. 77, contains the first appearance by Yeats of The Song of the woman under the title Against witchcraft; [Idem] The dome: a quarterly containing examples of all the arts. London: The Unicorn Press, 1897. 8vo., publisher's printed paper boards, wear to spine (Wade p. 46), contains the first publication of Mongan laments the change that has come upon him and his beloved under the title The Desire of man and of woman; [Idem] On the boiler. Dublin: The Cuala Press, 1939. First edition, second issue, 4to., original blue paper wrappers (Wade 202); [Idem] Poems. London: T. Fisher Unwin Ltd.,1920. 8vo., original cloth, spine with gilt decoration, covers with blind, after designs by Althea Gyles, slight wear to extremities (7)