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YEATS, W.B.

Stories from Carleton:

Stories from Carleton:

With an Introduction by W.B. Yeats. [The Camelot Series].

Stock Code 110124

London, Walter Scott, [1889].

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The first edition, later state of this collection of stories by the Irish novelist William Carleton (d.1869), with an introduction by W.B. Yeats. Issued as no. 48 in The Camelot Series.

'I thought no end of Carleton in those days & would still I dare say if I had not forgotten him. W.B. Yeats, 1904' (Wade).

First edition, later state; small 8vo (17 x 12.5 cm); old bookseller's label to front pastedown, 6pp. publisher's ads. to rear; publisher's red cloth, upper cover with design stamped in black, gilt title-piece to spine, spine faded, head and tail caps slightly rubbed, lower right corner of upper cover slightly cockled; xvii, [3], 302, [6]pp.

Wade 214.

Provenance

Provenance: Henry March Gilbert (label).

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