• Yeats-Trembling-Signed-First-Edition1
  • Yeats-Trembling-Signed-First-Edition
Yeats-Trembling-Signed-First-Edition1
Signed by W.B. Yeats, 1/1000 copies

YEATS, WILLIAM BUTLER

The Trembling of the Veil

London: Privately printed for subscribers by T. Werner Laurie Ltd., 1922
  • $1,500.00

SIGNED LIMITED FIRST EDITION of Yeats’s autobiographical work; one of only 1000 copies signed by Yeats.

“Looking back from 1922, [Yeats] titled his autobiographical account of the decade of the 1890s The Trembling of the Veil. He recalled that Mallarme has said that ‘his epoch was troubled by the trembling of the veil of the Temple,’ and that ‘as those words were still true, during the years of my life described in this book,’ he had named it accordingly” (The Cambridge Companion to W.B. Yeats).

Octavo, original half parchment over light green boards; original dust jacket. Dust jacket spine with light wear at the spine (slightly affecting label) and minor toning. A FINE COPY in the scarce original dust jacket.