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354 YEATS (WILLIAM BUTLER)The Poems of W.B. Yeats
Macmillan & Co., London, 1949. Limited edition, no. 323 of 375 copies, SIGNED BY W. B. YEATS opposite the half-title in vol-
ume I. Each volume with frontispiece portrait of Yeats (the first by Sargent, the second by Augustus John), protected by tissue
guards. Both tall octavo with original green cloth bevelled boards, gilt titles at spine and W. B. Yeats’ monogram stamped in
gilt on upper boards. Fore edge rough-cut; top edge gilt. In the original brown slipcase, as issued. Listed in Wade, no.s 209 and
210. An extremely scarce collector’s item, particularly in this collection.
Yeats had revised and corrected the proofs and signed the limitation leaves prior to his death, but publication was delayed
due to the complications of war. This was the first definitive edition chosen by the author himself.
€ 2,000 - 3,000