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New York The Macmillan Company, January 1957. Hardcover. VG/Very Good. used hardcover in a dust jacket. jacket is a bit worn about the edges and somewhat scuffed, but without any serious tears. pages and binding are clean, straight and tight. there are no marks to the text or other serious flaws.

New York : Macmillan, 1966. Third Edition. Hardcover. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Slight suggestion only of dust-dulling and rubbing to the spine bands and panel edges. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: xxxiv, 884p. ; 24cm. Subjects: Yeats, W.B. (William Butler) (1865-1939) -- Poetic works.

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1957. Signed Limited Edition. Near Fine. First edition. Copy number 703 of a limited 825 copies, signed by W. B. Yeats on a tipped in page. Near Fine with mild sunning to spine. In a Near Fine publisher's original slipcase, with toning, light soiling and light wear. The limitation sheets were signed by Yeats in 1939, and retained by the publisher until this posthumous publication in 1957.

Limited to 825 copies signed by Yeats. This is copy is #772.Edited by Peter Allt and Russell K. Alspach. Thick 8vo. Original two-toned cloth, in publisher's slipcase. New York 1957. The planning of this volume originated in the late 1930s. With World War II looming and Yeats' fragile health, it was decided to have the limitation pages signed by the poet then, before publication. The final edition was delayed until 1957, further compounded by the death of Allt in 1954. Included are: Preface, Introduction, Bibliography, Collations, Appendices, Index to Titles, and Index to First Lines. This is the definitive variorum edition of Yeats' poems. It was the editors' intention to note all of the changes that Yeats made to his poems in the course of their successive printings. The record begins in 1885 with the edition of The Dublin University Review, which contained his first two published poems. It ends with the two-volume definitive edition of his poetry in 1949, the proofs of which he had corrected shortly… Read More