Lot 695
Yeats, W.B.
Rare Books, Maps & Manuscripts
Auction: Rare Books, Maps & Manuscripts
Description
Poems. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1912. Sixth English edition, revised, 8vo., portrait frontispiece, original blue cloth, spine and upper board decorated in gilt after designs by Althea Gyles, uncut, a little wear at head and tail, offsetting and spotting of endpapers (Wade 99); [Idem] Responsibilities and other poems. London: Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1916. First edition, 8vo., original blue cloth with gilt design on the upper cover by Sturge Moore, spine darkened, some offsetting to endpapers, inscription on front free endpaper (Wade 115); [Idem] The cutting of an agate. London: Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1919. First English edition, 8vo., original dark blue cloth with gilt designs on the spine and upper cover by Sturge Moore, spine slightly darkened, endpapers a little spotted, stamped in blind "presentation copy" on the titlepage (Wade 126); [Idem] Stories of Red Hanrahan and the secret rose, illustrated & decorated by Norah McGuinness. Lodnon: Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1927. First edition thus, 8vo., original dark blue cloth, gilt decoration to the upper board and spine after designs by Norah McGuinness, t.e.g., slight wear to extremities, offsetting to endpapers (Wade 157) (4)