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If I Were Four-and-Twenty
by Yeats, William Butler
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
- Seller
-
Chico, California, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Dublin: Cuala Press, 1940. Contains two early essays by Yeats: "If I Were Four-and-Twenty" (1919) and "Swedenborg, Mediums, and the Desolate Places." (1914). This is a Near Fine copy of the First Edition Thus, which was LIMITED to 400 copies. Blue paper-covered boards with a linen spine; paper label on spine. Clean text; 68 pages, some unopened. Hint of darkening to the top edge, and a very faint bubble to front cover; else a Fine copy. The glassine dustwrapper is present but has three small chips on the edges and a larger one to the top front. It has a neatly-inked number at the top left that corresponds to the number of the edition. In an archival plastic protector.. Limited. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Quercus Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 004412
- Title
- If I Were Four-and-Twenty
- Author
- Yeats, William Butler
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- Limited
- Publisher
- Cuala Press
- Place of Publication
- Dublin
- Date Published
- 1940
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Literature (Irish Authors);
Terms of Sale
Quercus Rare Books
We accept checks and money orders in US Dollars. Credit card orders are accepted through Biblio. California residents add appropriate sales tax. Items are returnable for any reason within ten days of receipt (please email or call first before returning item).
About the Seller
Quercus Rare Books
Biblio member since 2006
Chico, California
About Quercus Rare Books
Quercus Books seeks out and provides to the discriminating Reader or Collector noteworthy books in the First Edition. Our particular focus is on Modern Literature (roughly from the Second World War to the present) and Irish Authors. We also retain a small stock of non-fiction titles, mostly in the fields of American Western History, American Indians, and the American Civil War. Member of IOBA - the Independent Online Booksellers Association.
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- Spine
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- First Edition
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- Dustwrapper
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- Fine
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- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Unopened
- A state in which all or some of the pages of a book have not been separated from the adjacent pages, caused by a traditional...
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