Autobiographies: Reveries Over Childhood and Youth and The Trembling of the Veil

First edition. Crown 8vo. Pp. [viii (last blank)], 477, [1], [2 (publisher's adverts)]. Olive green cloth, lettered in gilt to spine and decorated in blind after a design by Charles Ricketts to upper cover; edges untrimmed. Tissue-guarded b/w frontispiece portrait of Yeats by his father, John B. Yeats; tipped-in tissue-guarded colour plate "Memory Harbour" by his brother, Jack B. Yeats, with three additional b/w tissue-guarded plates. Illustrations to front and rear pastedowns, notes. Collects Reveries over Childhood and Youth (1916), and The Trembling of the Veil (1922). 1/2820 copies printed.

Spine sunned with gilt bright as ever, small ownership signature on f.f.e.p., bookseller ticket to rear pastedown, free endpapers and fore-edge a little spotted, upper fore-tips of front cover a bit bruised, else Fine.

[Wade 151]