Lot 691
Yeats, W.B.
Rare Books, Maps & Manuscripts
Auction: Rare Books, Maps & Manuscripts
Description
Poems, 1899-1905. London: A.H. Bullen, 1906. First edition, 8vo., original dark blue cloth with decoration on the spine in gilt after a design by Althea Gyles, uncut, scrapes to lower part of spine, corners knocked, repair to tear in the upper margin of the titlepage (Wade 64); [Idem] Poems: second series. London: A.H. Bullen, 1909. First edition, 8vo., original blue cloth with decoration on the spine in gilt after a design by Althea Gyles, uncut, spine dulled, some staining of the lower cover (Wade 83); and a later copy of this edition in brown paper boards, linen spine with printed paper label, and spare label inserted at the end (Wade 83); [Idem] Poems. London: T. Fisher Unwin Ltd., 1922. Second 1922 impression, 8vo., publisher's blue cloth, blind stamped with designs by Althea Gyles on the covers, and in gilt on the spine, dustwrappers, some splits in the wrappers, boards unevenly faded, bookplate of Joan Leighton; [Idem] The collected poems. London: Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1933. First edition, 8vo., portrait frontispiece, publisher's cloth, offsetting to endpapers, spine faded (Wade 171); [Idem] Last poems and plays. London: Macmillan & Co. Ltd, 1940. First edition, 8vo., original green cloth, stamped in blind on the upper cover after design by Sturge Moore, dustwrappers. (Wade 203); [Idem] Poems selected by Seamus Heaney. London: Faber & Faber, 1988. 12mo., publisher's printed paper wrappers (7)