John Sherman and Dhoya (1891)

Author: W.B. Yeats

Book ID: 68770

Price: 650.00

John Sherman and Dhoya. London: Fisher 1891. First Edition, First Issue. Pp 195. Publisher’s yellow wrappers lettered in black, with publisher’s monogram on back cover. Wrappers lightly dust soiled & worn along spine, upper wrapper partially detached, contents pages in nice bright condition.

No. 10 of Pseudonym Library. Yeats published it under the name ‘Ganconagh’ (the name of an Irish spirit).

Comprising a novella and a short story, this volume earned Yeats forty pounds at a time when he really needed it.  Thirteen years later Yeats wrote that this book was ‘written when I was very young & knew no better.’

Also issued in a cloth bound edition.

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