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Lot 356

YEATS, WILLIAM BUTLER. 1865-1939.
The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems. London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co, 1889.

5 December 2019, 10:00 EST
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YEATS, WILLIAM BUTLER. 1865-1939.

The Wanderings of Oisin and Other Poems. London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co, 1889. 8vo. Publisher's blue cloth lettered in gilt, custom cloth chemise, blue morocco backed slipcase, some chipping to cloth at spine ends and along joints.
Provenance: A.L. Lilley (ownership signature).

FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE, OF YEATS'S FIRST TRADE BOOK, preceded only by the privately printed Mosada. 500 copies were printed, financed by Kegan Paul but with guarantees from subscribers arranged with the help of John O'Leary. When subscriptions weren't as strong as hoped, Kegan Paul sold the remainder of 98 copies to Fisher Unwin, in a deal again financed by Yeats. An important book. See Warwick Gould, "Yeats and His Books," in Essays in Honour of Eamonn Cantwell, pp 32-35. Wade 2.

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