Author: W.B.YEATS.
Title: Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry. Edited and selected by W.B.Yeats.
Description: Walter Scott, 'The Camelot Series', London, 1888. 1st Edition. Hardcover. First edition, first state of Yeats' second book, preceded only by The Dublin University Review offprint pamphlet 'Mosada' (1886). 8vo. 326pp + [vi] advertisements. Dark blue cloth with a lettered paper spine label, which is somewhat darkened. A little chipping to the backstrip ends, and the binding cracked and just a fraction tender at the half-title. A touch of spotting to the endpapers and to several preliminary leaves. Former owner name plate to the front pastedown. A good copy. No dust wrapper called for. Yeats contributes a ten-page introduction, nine introductory essays of varying length, a selection of notes, and his poems 'The Stolen Child' and 'The Priest of Coloony'. Wade 212 (binding 1). Good.

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