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[YEATS, WILLIAM BUTLER]. The Book of the Rhymers' Club [and] The Second Book of the Rhymers' Club, London: Elkin Mathews, etc., 1892 & 1894, together 2 vols., square 12mo, original tan cloth with paper spine label and brown cloth respectively, uncut, the first with wear at head of spine, the second with slight rubbing, FIRST EDITIONS, limited to 450 and 500 copies respectively, the poet RICHARD ALDINGTON SET with his signature in ink on each front endpaper. Perhaps the 1890s anthology, including poems by Yeats (the first appearance of "The Lake Isle of Innisfree"), Lionel Johnson, Ernest Dowson, Arthur Symons, Richard Le Gallienne, among others. Wade 291 & 294--SASSOON, SIEGFRIED. Picture Show, [Cambridge]: Privately Printed, 1919, large 8vo, original light brown boards, paper label, unopened, original plain white paper dust jacket (a little soiled), FIRST EDITION, limited to 200 copies, designed by Bruce Rogers. An important book of World War I poetry in unusually fine condition; together 3 vols. (3)