Autobiographies - Reveries over Childhood and Youth and The Trembling of the Veil.
by YEATS, W.B
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
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- Seller
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LONDON, United Kingdom
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About This Item
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.
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- Bookseller
- Peter Ellis bookseller (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- YEATSWB000859
- Title
- Autobiographies - Reveries over Childhood and Youth and The Trembling of the Veil.
- Author
- YEATS, W.B
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Macmillan, London.
- Date Published
- 1926
- Keywords
- irish nobel prize
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