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London : A. H. Bullen / Dublin : Maunsel & Co., 1906. First edition. “I walked among the seven woods of Coole ...” – fifteen poems (some previously published in a limited edition), including “In the Seven Woods”, “Never Give all the Heart”, “The Withering of the Boughs” and “Under the Moon”, together with much revised versions of three verse plays (“The Shadowy Waters”, “On Baile’s Strand” and “The King’s Threshold”). Yeats’ preface provides a highly interesting commentary on his work at this period. “We have gradually come to think of Mr. Yeats as the greatest of the younger poets who use the English tongue” (Daily News).
Crown 8vo (20cm). xvi,(280)pp. Original decorative blue cloth gilt in a design by Althea Gyles (1867-1949); just very faintly rubbed and bruised; mild tanning of endpapers, but a very good and bright copy. Neat contemporary gift inscription dated Xmas 1906 and later decorative bookplate of Ronald and Jay Hamilton.

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London : Macmillan & Co., 1921. First edition : [one of 1,500 copies]. “At the Hawk’s Well”, “The Only Jealousy of Emer”, “The Dreaming of the Bones” and “Calvary”, with some fine illustrations by Edmund Dulac (1882-1953), music, notes on the plays, etc.
Foolscap 4to (22cm). (xii),138,[ii]pp. Frontispiece and six illustrations by Dulac. Original cloth-backed decorative boards in a dramatic design by Thomas Sturge Moore (1870-1944); some light wear to extremities and title label; endpapers a little tanned; a few faint marks, but a good copy of an attractive production. Small Henry Sotheran Ltd. book-label to front pastedown.

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London : Hodder & Stoughton, 1900. First edition. “I walked among the seven woods of Coole ... The sleep that is in the pools Among great trees, and in the wings of owls, And under lovers’ eyelids ... The harp-strings have begun to cry out to the eagles” . Yeats at his lyrical best in this “beautiful phantasmagoria” (Pall Mall Gazette, 8th December 1900). “Mr. Yeats in these later days has strange views as to the scope and mission of poetry. It is as guarded and peculiar and personal to himself as with other men are their last wills and testaments” (Morning Leader, 22nd January 1901).
Crown 4to (25cm). (58),[ii]pp. Original dark blue decorative cloth gilt over bevelled boards; top edge gilt; some mild wear to tips; endpapers lightly spotted; a few faint marks, but otherwise a very good copy of a handsome production. Neat “Aunt Nina” inscription to half-title.

£350

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