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New York: The Macmillan Company, 1927. Hardcover. Very Good. First American (revised) edition. 477pp. Illustrated. Tiny owner label of Berkeley book collector and letterpress printer John Ruyle on front pastedown. Contemporary owner name (Peadar na Scannlain), and a second owner's later stamp on front fly, endpapers and a few pages with modest offsetting, covers with a few small spots, rear cover slightly rubbed, still very good, lacking the dust jacket. (*Wade* 152). New and reset edition with additional material.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1927. Hardcover. Very Good. First American edition thus, new and reset with additional material. viii, 477pp. Illustrated with plates. Green cloth stamped in blind and titled in gilt. Tiny bookseller ticket ("Brentano's") on rear pastedown with three penciled sketches of birds on rear fly, vertical crease on rear board, lightly sunned spine, very good, lacking the dust jacket.

New York: Macmillan, 1927. Hardcover. Near Fine. First American edition thus, new and reset with additional material. Green cloth stamped in blind and titled in gilt. Longish gift inscription on front fly, light sunning on the spine, else near fine lacking the dust jacket.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1927. First published March, 1916; this is a Very Good copy of a "New and reset edition with additional material, Published February, 1927." This is the trade edition; a limited edition was published about a month earlier. Wade, 152. Green cloth binding with art deco blindstamping on the front cover; titling in gilt on the spine. Clean text; 477 pages. Frontis illustration and four others within [one is in colour; others black and white]. The paste downs are illustrated, featuring a unicorn. Mildly rubbed at the margins; spine has faded to a sort of golden tan, rendering the gilt titling readable but less prominent than desired. Lacking a dustjacket; in an archival plastic protector.. First Thus. Decorative Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

New York: Macmillan, 1927. Cloth/no dust jacket Octavo. Hardcover. Good. green cloth, gilt lettering, blindstamped design, no dust jacket, 477 pp first US edition owner's bookplate on the front and rear pastedown Standard shipping (no tracking) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders.

London: Macmillan, , 1926.. First edition.. vii + 477 pp w/notes. Foxing to endpapers, else very good plus in full green cloth that has sunned to tan on the spine. Inked ownership name, “Emma Bodkin” on the first leaf.

London, England: Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1926. Hardcover. Very Good. Octavo. Forest green cloth-covered boards, elaborate design stamped to front board, border triple-ruled in blind.

London: Macmillan and Co., Ltd, 1926. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Very Good in a Very Good jacket, unclipped (10/6 net), chips at the corners and head and foot of the spine. Green blindstamped boards, faded at the spine, pushed at the corners. Square and firmly bound with toned pages, some uncut, foxed at the endpapers, clean otherwise. The memoir of one of the greatest poets of all time, complete with the frontispiece and four tipped-in plates.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1927. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. Near fine book in a very good dust jacket somewhat browned at spine panel with some shallow chipping at top of rear flap and with a price-clipped from flap.. Two-inch tear to top of rear panel. Nice copy.

Macmillan, London., 1926. First edition. Octavo. pp viii, 477. Tissue-guarded frontispiece portrait of Yeats by his father, J.B. Yeats; tissue-guarded colour plate "Memory Harbour" by Jack B. Yeats, tissue-guarded drawings of Mrs Yeats and himself by J.B. Yeats; tissue-guarded portrait of Yeats by Charles Shannon. Original green cloth lettered in gilt and decorated in blind with a design by Charles Ricketts. Pages unopened.Small ownership signature on front free endpaper. Free endpapers and fore-edge a little spotted. A lovely copy in near fine dustwrapper, repeating the cover design, just a little rubbed at edges.

London: Macmillan and Co., 1926. [Modern Literature] FIRST EDITION. Octavo (20 x 13cm), pp.[x] 477; [1], blank; [2], advertisements. Five illustrations including a colour plate by Jack B Yeats. Publisher's mid-green cloth lettered in gilt to spine and front board decorated in blind, illustrated endpapers, edges untrimmed, pictorial dust-wrapper. Tiny nicks to cloth joints, inside paper joints started, dust-wrapper a shade toned to spine else fine. An attractive copy. Yeats was a poet whose autobiography depicts his childhood, of being an Irishman growing up in England and the racially motivated bullying and hostility he faced, in a poetic style. Yeats was the first Irishman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1923, and served as an Irish Senator for two years.