Responsibilities and Other Poems. First American Edition (1916)

Author: W.B. Yeats

Book ID: 70831

Price: 395.00

Responsibilities and Other Poems. New York: Macmillan, 1916. First American Edition. Pp vii, 188, [6], uncut. Quarter linen, pictorial paper boards, with design by Sturge Moore to upper cover, title label to head of spine. Light shelf-wear to spine edges, otherwise a nice bright copy.

Perforated ‘Advance Copy For Review‘ stamp to title page.

A collection comprising poems from ‘Responsibilities’ (1912-1914), ‘The Green Helmet & other Poems’ (1909-1912) & ‘The Hour Glass. A New Version’ (1912); with six pages of Notes at the end by Yeats. The first American edition, published in the same year as the English edition.

“This new volume in which are brought together some of his latest poems, it is the first collection since the Irish Literary Movement has assumed big proportions and as such, and as the representative work of one of the most distinguished of modern writers it is possessed of a wide appeal.”

[Wade 116]

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