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By The Way Books
Rare, Fine and Academic book especially in the fields of spiritual traditions and esoterica, East and West.
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Yeats, W.B. [William Butler] Autobiographies: Reveries Over Childhood and Youth and The Trembling of the Veil
$1,200.00
New York: Macmillan, 1927. Limited edition of 250 numbered and signed copies; 477 pages, with frontis engraved portrait and facing tissue, three other engravings and tipped in reproduction of a painting by Jack Yeats, all with facing tissues.
Cloth bound in very good condition; Light spine end wear, a few small stains to lower portion of spine; Former owner ex-libris label facing limitation.
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