Yeats, William Butler

The Wild Swans at Coole [first trade edition]

London: Macmillan, 1919. First edition thus, and first trade edition. ix, 115 pp. Blue cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt, design by Sturge Moore. Corners and head and tail of spine slightly rubbed, spine gilt dulled, first gathering a bit loose. Browning to preliminary and concluding leaves, and pp. 14-15 from previously laid-in newsprint. The Cuala Press limited edition was published two years earlier; this collection is much revised and expanded, and includes two of Yeats' most important poems, "In Memory of Major Robert Gregory" and "An Irish Airman Foresees His Death," not included in the original publication. Bookplates of Robert Woods Bliss and Mildred Bliss of Dumbarton Oaks on the front pastedown. Item #1767

Price: $450.00