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New Haven: Yale University Press/Printed by Carl Purington Rollins, M.A., at the Sign of the Chorobates, 1925. First edition. Sewn salmon wrappers with printed title label on front cover. Of a numbered edition of only 31 copies printed by Carl Purington Rollins at his own fine press, this is number 13. The first of three volumes all with similarly tiny limitations, published over the course of the next eight years; this titled "The Big Bull Dean," a humorous poem about Everett Victor Meeks, who served as Dean of the School of Fine Arts from 1920 to 1947. Some fading and wear to the covers, wrapper splitting at spine. WorldCat shows only three copies in institutions other than Yale.

London: Macmillan, 1919. First edition thus, and first trade edition. ix, 115 pp. Blue cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt, design by Sturge Moore. Corners and head and tail of spine slightly rubbed, spine gilt dulled, first gathering a bit loose. Browning to preliminary and concluding leaves, and pp. 14-15 from previously laid-in newsprint. The Cuala Press limited edition was published two years earlier; this collection is much revised and expanded, and includes two of Yeats' most important poems, "In Memory of Major Robert Gregory" and "An Irish Airman Foresees His Death," not included in the original publication. Bookplates of Robert Woods Bliss and Mildred Bliss of Dumbarton Oaks on the front pastedown.

Portland, ME: The Mosher Press, 1936. First edition. Blue paper boards, title label on front board. An about fine copy in the original publisher's glassine, which is chipped in spots. Inscribed by the translator, Edna Worthley Underwood, on the free front endpaper.

New York: Macmillan, 1937. First edition. 63 pp. Yellow cloth, lettered and blocked in brown, with the dust jacket. Pastedowns browned from binder's glue, endemic to this title, with minor darkening to exterior hinges. Jacket spine a bit browned with slight chipping at head, top corner clipped with new price printed at lower corner of front flap. The first book, a collection of poems, by the author perhaps best known for her massive novel Miss MacIntosh, My Darling.