Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry.
by YEATS, W.B. (edits and selects)
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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LONDON, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Walter Scott, London., 1888. First edition. Issued in the Camelot Series. Ten-page introduction by Yeats. Small octavo. pp xx, 326. Six pages of adverts at rear. Red cloth decorated in black, gilt titles to spine.Dark spot (burn?) to fore-edge of front free endpaper and that of first four leaves. Some light spotting to endpapers. Very good.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Peter Ellis bookseller (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- YEATSWBE014652
- Title
- Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry.
- Author
- YEATS, W.B. (edits and selects)
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Walter Scott, London.
- Date Published
- 1888
- Keywords
- irish
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Peter Ellis bookseller
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LONDON
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