Photograph Signed

by William Butler Yeats, Alice Boughton

$20,000 · Offered by Manhattan Rare Books

Signed

EXCEEDINGLY RARE SIGNED PHOTOGRAPH OF YEATS BY ALICE BOUGHTON. ONE OF THE EARLIEST KNOWN SIGNED YEATS PHOTOS. A rare bust portrait of Yeats as a young man, signed and inscribed by Yeats to U.S. politician and later U.S. secretary of state Bainbridge Colby: “To Mr. Bainbridge Colby with kind regards from WB Yeats March 1904.” Inscribed in ink on the flush board mount beneath the photograph. On the verso of the photograph mount is written in

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