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New.

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… Read More

A H Bullen,, 1906. 8vo., First Edition, on laid paper, with title in red and black, free endpapers lightly browned; original navy cloth, upper board and backstrip blocked and lettered in gilt, uncut, a remarkably bright, crisp copy. With the armorial bookplate of of Frank M. Ogilvy on front paste-down. The gilt design on backstrip was designed by Althea Gyles for 'The Secret Rose' (1897). Wade 64.