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YEATS, William Butler (1865-1939). Poems. London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1895.
8vo. Half-title, pictorial title-page by H. Graville Fell. (Some minor toning and soiling.) Original tan cloth gilt, fore-and-bottom edges uncut (some soiling, spine darkened as usual, neat annotations on last leaf).
FIRST EDITION, LIMITED EDITION, unnumbered one of 750 copies. Poems saw the beginning of Yeats' lifelong commitment to "weeding and rewriting his early work into a canon" (R.F. Foster, Cambridge Companion to W.B. Yeats). Wade, 15.
The Library of John Leonard Gillis Sold to Support the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto