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The Trembling of the Veil.

Stock Code 105756

London, Privately Printed for Subscribers only by T. Werner Laurie, Ltd., 1922

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From the library of L.A.G. Strong. One of 1,000 copies on hand-made paper, signed by the author, issued to subscribers in October 1922.

A marvellous association copy from the library of Yeats' fellow Irish writer, and Joycean, L.A.G. Strong, signed and dated by him on the front free endpaper, (November 1922) and with the following note, 'From October 1921 to March 1922 I heard portions of this book read from the manuscript by the author at his house, Number 4 Broad Street, Oxford.' Strong - a poets of some note in his own right was also an important literary critic who wrote often on Yeats and Joyce in particular.

William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) stands at the turning point between the Victorian period and Modernism, the conflicting currents of which affected his poetry. This volume is the second of Yeat's seven autobiographical works and described by Arthur Symons as 'an absolute masterpiece; far and away the best things he has ever done'. Ross p. 559. The following year, Yeats received an important accolade for his writing as the recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, the first Irish person to do so. According to the official Nobel Prize web-site, Yeats was selected 'for his always inspired poetry, which in a highly artistic form gives expression to the spirit of a whole nation.'

Limited edition, number 841 of 1,000 copies signed by the author and printed on handmade paper; 8vo; portrait frontispiece of the poet, publisher's japon-backed green boards, titles printed in brown on paper label on spine, green endpapers, some edges untrimmed, grey paper dust-jacket with label to spine. A superb copy in the very lightly tanned dust jacket.

Wade 133.
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Provenance: Joycean, L.A.G. Strong (signed and dated by him on the front free endpaper, (November 1922)

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The Trembling of the Veil.

YEATS, William Butler.

Stock code: 105756

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