Last Poems and Plays. London: Macmillan, 1940. First Edition. Pp, vii, 126. Olive green cloth, with designed by Sturge Moore blind stamped on front cover, in original pictorial dust jacket incorporating same design. Jacket price-clipper; a fine bright copy.

Published by Macmillan in January 1940, five months after Yeats’s death in January 1939 the work comprising over fifty poems written from 1936 to his death in 1939 and two plays:

‘The Death of Cuchulain’ and ‘Purgatory.’

Includes the original publisher’s wrap-around band, a rare and desirable ephemeral addition.

[Wade: 200].