Item #260874 The Land of Heart’s Desire. William Butler Yeats.

Mosher Piracy Signed by Yeats

The Land of Heart’s Desire.

Portland, Maine: Thomas B. Mosher, [December], 1903.

Price: $2,500.00


About the item

Second edition, one of 950 copies on Van Gelder hand-made paper. vi, 33, [1] pp. Type 10-point Caslon old-style. 1 vols. 12mo. Mosher Piracy Signed by Yeats. Bound in grey paper over boards, with printed paper label on spine and upper cover. Bottom of spine chipped. Hatch 281; Bishop 186.1; Wade 13A (first Mosher edition); Roth 72.

Item #260874

Yeats did not approve of Mosher's piracies — this is the first Mosher title that we have seen signed by Yeats.