Representative Irish Tales. Compiled, with an Introduction and Notes by W.B. Yeats, and a Foreword by Helen Mary Thuente. Gerrards Bross: Colin Smythe, 1979. First Thus. A fine bright copy.

Publisher’s copy, one of only two copies bound by Antiquarian Bookcrafts (Dublin) in half green morocco, marbled boards, spine ruled in gilt, raised bands & leather title label lettered in gilt. Signed by the publisher.

A fine selection of Irish fiction, as representative of Yeats himself as it is of Irish novelists. Yeats’ introductory commentary and notes provide an interesting perspective on a relatively unknown but influential phase of his early work. First published in 1891.