Yeats (William Butler) Poems, first edition, one of 750 copies, pictorial title by H.Granville Fell, bookplate, endpapers browned, spine browned, spine ends and corners bumped, spine ends chipped, 1895 ; Poems, first American edition,pictorial title by H.Granville Fell, spine browned, spine ends and corners bumped, Boston, 1895; Poems, second edition, frontispiece, scattered spotting, spine ends and corners a little bumped, 1899; Poems, third edition, frontispiece, contemporary ink inscription, spine rubbed and faded, spine ends and corners a little bumped, 1901; Poems, fourth edition, frontispiece, spotting, heavy to prelims, light rubbing to spine, minor bumping to spine ends and corners, 1904; Poems, fifth edition, frontispiece, scattered spotting to edges, light rubbing to spine, very slight rubbing to tips of spine and corners, else fine, 1908, all with tissue-guards present, original decorative cloth, gilt, uncut, 8vo.(6)

⁂ A good grouping of the first five editions of Yeats' Poems as well as the first American edition. Yeats disliked the Granville Fell design for the first edition and from the second edition onwards this was replaced by an Althea Gyles one. Internally too Poems underwent numerous revisions and changes, as Yeats stated in his preface to the third edition: "These details may seem unnecessary; but after all one writes poetry for a few careful readers and for a few friends, who will not consider such details very unnecessary."