The Cutting of an Agate

by W. B. Yeats, William Butler

$4,500 · Offered by Burnside Rare Books

First edition · Signed

London: Macmillan & Co., Limited, 1919. First edition, first printing. Signed by W.B. Yeats on the title page and dated Nov. 23 1922. Bound in publisher's navy coarse cloth decorated in gilt; lacking the dust jacket. Very Good+ with darkening to spine, minor wear at extremities with bumped bottom corners. Rear cloth slightly rippled. Small ink spot on bottom fore edge; former owner's bookplate designed by Laurence Housman

• Printing: first

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