Author: YEATS, WILLIAM BUTLER Title: Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry
Description: London, Walter Scott. 1888, First Edition. Cloth. Book, Small 8vo. (xx) 326pp (6) adverts. Original blue cloth with paper label to spine. Fore and bottom edges untrimmed. Includes the rare errata slip! Published as part of the Camelot Series. A nice copy of the rare blue variant, with a few loose quires and minor holes to front pastedown and ffep. W.B. Yeats's second published work, being an anthology of Irish folklore collected in the 19th century, with an introduction and notes by himself, elucidating their background, meaning and role in Irish life and culture. Exceedingly scarce and complete. Very Good.
Keywords: Literature, Anthologies, Irish Writers
Price: EUR 450.00 = appr. US$ 489.08 Seller: Neale Williams Antiquarian Books
- Book number: 8961
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