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The trembling of the veil / by W. B. Yeats.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939.
- Yeats, W. B.
- Authors, Irish--20th century--Biography.
- Authors, Irish.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Autobiographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939 (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 2 unnumbered pages, vii pages, 1 unnumbered page, 247 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates : portrait ; 23 cm
- Manufacture:
- Edinburgh : Printed in Great Britain by The Dunedin Press Limited.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Privately printed for subscribers only by T. Werner Laurie, Ltd., 1922.
- Contents:
- Preface (dated May 1922)
- Book I. Four Years 1887-1891
- Book II. Ireland after the Fall of Parnell
- Book III. Hodos Camelionis
- Book IV. The Tragic Generation
- Book V. The Stirring of the Bones.
- Notes:
- Frontispiece portrait by Charles Shannon is protected by a thin paper guard bearing on verso the words "William Butler Yeats from a picture by Charles Shannon" in green.
- "This edition consists of one thousand copies numbered and signed."
- Light blue paper boards with cream parchment half-binding. Paper label lettered in brown on spine. Blue endpapers. All edges untrimmed.
- Local Notes:
- Culture Class Collection copy is no. 212 signed by W. B. Yeats.
- Culture Class Collection copy has grey paper wrapper with spine label printed in brown.
- Culture Class Collection copy has unopened leaves.
- Cited in:
- Wade, A. Bibl. of the writings of W. B. Yeats (3rd ed.), 133
- OCLC:
- 851492
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