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YEATS, William Butler. Reveries over Childhood & Youth, London: Macmillan and Co., 1916. 8° (192 x 130mm). Half title, mounted coloured frontispiece by Jack Butler Yeats, 2 plates. Original pictorial cloth designed by Sturge Moore, uncut. Provenance: "Darling Mab with love from ?Ligabee, June 23, 1917" (inscription on front free endpaper); 2-page autograph letter loosely-inserted relating to this copy of the book, indistinctly signed. A FINE COPY OF THE FIRST ENGLISH EDITION. Wade 133: "... the edition consisted of 1000 copies."
With 8 other books by or edited by W. B. Yeats including Fairy and Folk Tales by the Irish Peasantry (London, 1888), Literary Ideals in Ireland. By John Eglinton, W. B. Yeats, A. E.; W. Larminie (London, 1899, inscribed [?possibly by Yeats], "For the Hon. Emily Lawless from the Editor"), The Wind Among the Reeds (London, 1911, sixth edition, with manuscript 19-line poem on front free endpaper), Essays (London, 1924) and Autobiographies (London, 1926). (9)
With 8 other books by or edited by W. B. Yeats including Fairy and Folk Tales by the Irish Peasantry (London, 1888), Literary Ideals in Ireland. By John Eglinton, W. B. Yeats, A. E.; W. Larminie (London, 1899, inscribed [?possibly by Yeats], "For the Hon. Emily Lawless from the Editor"), The Wind Among the Reeds (London, 1911, sixth edition, with manuscript 19-line poem on front free endpaper), Essays (London, 1924) and Autobiographies (London, 1926). (9)
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