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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Seventh printing. Small quarto. xxxiv, 884pp. Spine ends and corners lightly rubbed, near fine in a very good dust jacket with two one-inch chips on spine head, small nicks on the spine ends and corners. Although not marked in any way, from the library of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Donald Justice.

Condition: Very Good. Sixth impression, 8vo., pp.xxxv,884, blue cloth, gilt; foxing to top edges, slight roll to spine, a very good copy, in very good gently price-clipped dust-jacket, which is lightly rubbed and chipped to extremities.

The Variorum signed limited edition of this classic collection of poetry by the Nobel Prize-winning author, one of 825 numbered copies signed by the poet. Large octavo, original half cloth, original slipcase. One of 825 copies signed by William Butler Years on the limitation page, this is number 421. Fine in the original slipcase, which is in very good condition. Original prospectus loosely inserted. Bookplate to the front pastedown. W.B. Yeats was an Irish poet and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. A pillar of both the Irish and British literary establishments, in his later years he served as an Irish Senator for two terms. Yeats was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival and, along with Lady Gregory, Edward Martyn, and others, founded the Abbey Theatre, where he served as its chief during its early years. In 1923, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature as the first Irishman so honored for what the Nobel Committee described as "inspired poetry, which in a highly artistic form gives expression to the spirit of a whole nation." Yeats is generally considered one of the few writers who completed their greatest works after being awarded the Nobel Prize; such works include The Tower (1928) and The Winding Stair and Other Poems (1929).