Lot 697
Yeats, W.B.
Rare Books, Maps & Manuscripts
Auction: Rare Books, Maps & Manuscripts
£525
Description
The wild swans at Coole. London: Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1919. First edition thus, 8vo., publisher's cloth, gold design on the upper cover by Sturge Moore, yellow dustwrappers printed in red, uncut, spine of wrappers faded and chipped at head and tail, edges of wrappers dusty, ownership signature on front free endpaper
Footnote
Note: Wade 124. The 1919 edition adds seventeen poems to the Cuala Press edition of 1917, including the famous elegy to Lady Gregory's son Robert - An Irish airman foresees his death.