Early Poems and Stories. New York: Macmillan & Co., 1925. First American Edition. Pp x, 528. Publisher’s light green cloth boards with designs in blind by Charles Ricketts, title lettered in gold on spine, in matching dust jacket. Jacket lightly toned & chipped along flaps, crease to corner of half-title, otherwise a fine bright copy.

A collection of poems and stories from the late 1880s and early 1890s. During this period Yeats was a young struggling poet impressed by the tales and myths of the Celtic past.

The volume is divided into a number of sections including The Wanderings Of Usheen, Crossways, The Rose, The Celtic Twilight, The Secret Rose, Stories Of Red Hanrahan and Rose Alcemica.