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The Celtic Twilight
by Yeats, W.B
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
-
Chico, California, United States
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About This Item
London: A.H. Bullen, 1902. Originally published in 1893, Yeats made additions for the second printing. "I have desired, like every artist, to create a little world out of the beautiful, pleasant, and significant things of this marred and clumsy world." This is a Very Good copy of the First Edition Thus (Second Printing). Usually seen in blue cloth, this is a variant binding (perhaps transitional) with umber paper-covered boards, a linen spine with a paper label. Uncommon to scarce. Clean text; x, 235 pages, with the poem "Into the Twilight" serving nicely as a coda on the last page. Frontis portrait of Yeats. There is typical foxing to the endpapers; spine has darkened, rubbed at the head and foot of the spine. The paper spine label is darkened and chipped, but a fresh, bright label is tipped onto the rear paste-down. In an archival plastic protector. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. First Thus.. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Quercus Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 002897
- Title
- The Celtic Twilight
- Author
- Yeats, W.B
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Thus.
- Publisher
- A.H. Bullen
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1902
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Literature (Irish Authors);
Terms of Sale
Quercus Rare Books
We accept checks and money orders in US Dollars. Credit card orders are accepted through Biblio. California residents add appropriate sales tax. Items are returnable for any reason within ten days of receipt (please email or call first before returning item).
About the Seller
Quercus Rare Books
Biblio member since 2006
Chico, California
About Quercus Rare Books
Quercus Books seeks out and provides to the discriminating Reader or Collector noteworthy books in the First Edition. Our particular focus is on Modern Literature (roughly from the Second World War to the present) and Irish Authors. We also retain a small stock of non-fiction titles, mostly in the fields of American Western History, American Indians, and the American Civil War. Member of IOBA - the Independent Online Booksellers Association.
Glossary
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- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Spine Label
- The paper or leather descriptive tag attached to the spine of the book, most commonly providing the title and author of the...
- Paste-down
- The paste-down is the portion of the endpaper that is glued to the inner boards of a hardback book. The paste-down forms an...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
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