William Butler Yeats was an Irish poet and was one of the foremost figures of the Irish and British literary establishments. He was the first Irishman to be awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. His most notable works include The Tower and The Winding Stair and Other Poems.
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London: The Macmillan Company, 1949. Limited edition, number 116 of 375 copies published posthumously, though with pages signed by the poet before his death. Yeats’s complete poetical output, and a variorum of the his textual changes, personally overseen by Yeats’s widow, Georgie. Read More Item Details for The Poems Add to Wish List
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New York: The Macmillan Company, 1957. First edition, no. 288 of 825 copies signed by Yeats. A signed, limited edition of a storied anthology of Yeats' poems with an unorthodox backstory. In the 1930s, Yeats signed 825 unbound colophons for a planned release of his collected poems by Macmillan; the..... Read More Item Details for The Variorum Edition of the Poems of W. B. Yeats Add to Wish List
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London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1892. First Edition. Read More Item Details for Selected Poems of Federico Garcia Lorca Add to Wish List
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London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1900. First edition. Includes the poem "I walked among the seven woods of Coole" and the mystical titular play, one of Yeats' early dramas. Read More Item Details for The Shadowy Waters Add to Wish List
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London: Wishart & Company, 1930. First edition. Read More Item Details for Sligo Add to Wish List
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Dublin; London: Maunsel & Co., Ltd.; Elkin Mathews, 1907. Yeats, Jack B. Large paper edition, number 107 of 150 copies printed on handmade paper, signed by Jack B. Yeats. Following the advice given to him by Yeats in Paris, Synge went on the first of his five consecutive annual visits..... Read More Item Details for The Aran Islands: by J. M. Synge. With Drawings by Jack B. Yeats Add to Wish List
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Churchtown & Dublin: Dun Emer and Cuala Press, 1908-1915. One of 300 copies. The beautiful periodical of verse and images produced by the Cuala Press, each number with three illustrations by Jack B. Yeats, who also contributed many of the poems under pseudonyms R.E. McGowan and W.T. MacGowan. Extensive runs..... Read More Item Details for A Broadside. Published Monthly … [Cuala Press Broadsides. First Series] Add to Wish List
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Churchtown, Dundrum, [Dublin]: Cuala Press, 1914. First Edition. "In these poems Yeats, influenced by his young secretary Pound, breaks away from his early manner and begins to purge his imagery of abstraction and to write more simply and directly." (Connolly). Read More Item Details for Responsibilities: Poems and a Play Add to Wish List
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New York: The Macmillan Company, 1904. First trade edition. Feminist Gertrude Robinson-Smith's copy, with her attractive, early pictorial bookplate on front pastedown. Born in New York City in 1880, to a wealthy family, she worked for numerous causes, was President of the Vaccination Society, raised funds for refugees during World..... Read More Item Details for The Hour-Glass and Other Plays Add to Wish List
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Dublin, Ireland: The Cuala Press, 1929 [with date on title page stating: "MCMXXVIV"]. First edition, limited to 425 copies "on paper made in Ireland and published by Elizabeth Corbet Yeats at the Cuala Press" The printer, Elizabeth Corbet Yeats (1868–1940), was the daughter of Irish artist, John Butler Yeats, and..... Read More Item Details for A Packet for Ezra Pound Add to Wish List
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London: A. H. Bullen, 1907. First separate edition. Read More Item Details for The Hour-Glass: A Morality Add to Wish List
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Poertlnd, Maine: PRIVATELY PRINTED {by Thomas B. Mosher], 1903. First American revised edition, "Privately Printed" issue, limited to 32 numbered copies, "printed on Japan vellum by Thomas B. Mosher for presentation to his friends" [this is copy number "3"]. `. Read More Item Details for The Land of Heart's Desire Add to Wish List
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Portland, Maine: Thomas B. Mosher, [July], 1909. First (American) edition thus, by this publisher, later printing, limited to 500 copies, printed on Japan Vellum [see Wade 13A; first issued in 1903 by Mosher]. Read More Item Details for The Land of Heart's Desire Add to Wish List
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Chicago: Stone & Kimball, MDCCCXIV [but actually 1894]. First American edition, limited to 450 copies. Read More Item Details for The Land of the Heart's Desire Add to Wish List
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Portland: Mosher, MDCCCXIV [but actually 1894]. First American ("published") revised edition. Number 85 of 100 ON JAPAN VELLUM, SIGNED BY THOMAS BIRD MOSHER. Read More Item Details for The Land of the Heart's Desire Add to Wish List
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London: Macmillan and Co, 1921. First edition. Signed on the title-page by Yeats. Read More Item Details for Four Plays for Dancers Add to Wish List
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London: Macmillan, 1933. First trade edition, one of 2,000. An attractive copy of this important collection of late-career Yeats, gathering together some of his finest work from the period, including "Byzantium," "Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop" and other Crazy Jane poems, "Coole Park, 1929," "Colle and Ballylee, 1931," "For..... Read More Item Details for The Winding Stair Add to Wish List
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Dublin: The Cuala Press, 1928. First edition, published by the poet's sister Elizabeth Corbet Yeats in an edition of only 400 copies. Read More Item Details for The Death of Synge and Other Passages from an Old Diary Add to Wish List
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New York: The Fountain Press, 1929. Warde, Frederic. First edition, one of 642 numbered copies, signed by the author on the half-title. Read More Item Details for The Winding Stair Add to Wish List
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Portland, Maine: Thomas B. Mosher, [December], 1903. Second edition, one of 950 copies on Van Gelder hand-made paper. Yeats did not approve of Mosher's piracies — this is the first Mosher title that we have seen signed by Yeats. Read More Item Details for The Land of Heart’s Desire Add to Wish List
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London: Macmillan, 1922. First edition. 1500 copies printed. Read More Item Details for Plays in Prose and Verse Add to Wish List
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Dublin: The Cuala Press, 1928. First edition, published by the poet's sister Elizabeth Corbet Yeats in an edition of only 400 copies. Read More Item Details for The Death of Synge and Other Passages from an Old Diary Add to Wish List
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Dublin: Maunsel & Co, November 1908. Seventh Number. Read More Item Details for Samhain. An Occasional Review. Edited by W.B. Yeats, containing Notes by the Editor Add to Wish List
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San Francisco: [Printed for C. F. Benoit by the Brothers at] The Windsor Press, 1926. One of 750 copies on hand made Rye Mill paper. Read More Item Details for The Land of Heart‘s Desire Add to Wish List
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New York: Macmillan, [January 1918]. First American Edition marked "Special Limited Edition." Read More Item Details for Per Amica Silentia Lunae Add to Wish List
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