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Letters to the New Island
by Yeats, William Butler; Reynolds, Horace (Editor)
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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Carson City, Nevada, United States
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About This Item
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press (1970).. Hardcover. Very Good. Reprint. Blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. xiii, 222 pages. No dust jacket. Minor scratch to front board. Small stain to fore edges. Contents clean and tight. "Letters to the New Island contains 21 prose pieces Yeats published between 1888 and 1892 in two American newspapers -- the Boston Pilot and the Providence Sunday Journal . The pieces are reviews and brief essays on Irish literature and folklore, showing Yeats's intense concern at the time with the relation of culture to nationality." - LJ
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- Bookseller
- MagicCarpetBooks.com
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 010355
- Title
- Letters to the New Island
- Author
- Yeats, William Butler; Reynolds, Horace (Editor)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press (1970).
- Place of Publication
- Cambridge, MA
- Keywords
- Essays, Language, Literature, Folklore, Ireland, Irish Poets
- Bookseller catalogs
- Miscellaneous nonfiction;
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