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Variorum Edition of the Poems of W.B. Yeats by YEATS, William Butler - 1957
by YEATS, William Butler
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Variorum Edition of the Poems of W.B. Yeats
by YEATS, William Butler
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This item is currently on reserve; please contact dealer for more details. The Signed Variorum Edition YEATS, W[illiam] B[utler]. The Variorum Edition of the Poems of W.B. Yeats. Edited by Peter Allt...and Russell K. Alspach...New York: The Macmillan Company, 1957. First edition. Limited to 825 numbered copies, signed by Yeats, this being number 656. Octavo (9 1/4 x 6 1/8 inches; 234 x 155 mm). xxxv, [1, blank], 884 pp. With signed limitation page inserted after half-title. Original quarter orange buckram over beige buckram boards. Spine ruled and lettered in gilt. Top edge stained gray. A fine copy. In the original cardboard slipcase. Slipcase a bit sunned but very good. The limitation sheets, signed by the author before his death in 1939, were retained by the publisher until the publication of this edition. Perhaps the best edition of Yeats. HBS 66593. $1,600
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- Place of Publication New York
- Date Published 1957
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Yeats
by Yeats, W. B
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The Variorum Edition of the Poems of W.B. Yeats
by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
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Limited to 825 copies signed by Yeats. This is copy is #772.Edited by Peter Allt and Russell K. Alspach. Thick 8vo. Original two-toned cloth, in publisher's slipcase. New York 1957. The planning of this volume originated in the late 1930s. With World War II looming and Yeats' fragile health, it was decided to have the limitation pages signed by the poet then, before publication. The final edition was delayed until 1957, further compounded by the death of Allt in 1954. Included are: Preface, Introduction, Bibliography, Collations, Appendices, Index to Titles, and Index to First Lines. This is the definitive variorum edition of Yeats' poems. It was the editors' intention to note all of the changes that Yeats made to his poems in the course of their successive printings. The record begins in 1885 with the edition of The Dublin University Review, which contained his first two published poems. It ends with the two-volume definitive edition of his poetry in 1949, the proofs of which he had corrected shortly…
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