Early Poems and Stories. London: Macmillan & Co., 1925. First Edition. Pp x, 528, [2]. Publisher’s light green cloth boards with designs in blind by Charles Ricketts, title lettered in gold on spine. Light fading to boards, neat ownership name to front free endpaper, contents in fine condition.

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.