£50
Modern Firsts. Ireland, Yeats (William Butler), Poems, London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1913, portrait frontispiece, annotated title-page, original publisher's blue cloth, gilt spine only, uncut, inscription dated 1917, 8vo, Gill (Eric) & Tegetmeier (Denis, illustrator), Trousers & the Most Precious Ornament, London: Faber & Faber Ltd, 1937, original wrappers, 12mo, War Poetry, "Woodbine Willie", M.C., C.F./[pseud. Kennedy (Geoffrey Studdert, M.C.)], Rough Rhymes of a Padre, London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1918, original wrappers, chipped and worn in places, sqaure 8vo, Slocombe (George), Gaucheries, copy no. 100/300, Paris: Privately Printed, 1922, woodcut frontispiece after Julian E. Levi, original papered boards, chipped, 12mo, others, including Nancy Mitford, D.H. Lawrence, George Moore, John Freeman, including private press imprints, etc., (13)
Though published in 1913 Yeats' 'Poems' are presumably a First World One era re-issue: Wade notes that only the spines of these later issues were gilt, as with this copy, the presentation inscription dated 1917 supports this.
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