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Lot 2266
Three Volumes of Yeats, One Inscribed, and (20) Issues of Poetry Magazine
Lot Details & Additional Photographs
As follows: The Poetical Works of William B. Yeats (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1913), two volumes, small 8vo (7-3/4 in.), blue linen with gilt pictorial spines; the front free endpaper of Volume I is inscribed, "The years like great (black) oxen tread the world / W B Yeats / Feb 1914." This line is from Scene 5 in his dramatic poem The Countess Cathleen; plus, a second dramatic poem in book form, The Land of Hearts Desire by William Butler Yeats (Portland: Thomas B. Moser, 1914), 12mo (7 in.), red calf with gilt, the interior having eight (7) blank endpapers (light wear; fine condition); plus, twenty (20) random issues of Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, Harriet Monroe, ed., (Chicago, 1919 - 1926). Editor Monroe was instrumental in bringing talented, yet obscure, poets into public view.
(The magazines in very good condition for the medium.)

Private Virginia Collection