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Yeats, William Butler.
Per Amica Silentia Lunae.
Publisher: MacMillan and Co., London;
Date of Publication: 1918
Stock Code: 15131
First edition, early issue (as indicated by the lack of errata slip). Duodecimo, pp., [2] publisher’s advertisement, vi, 94, [2]. Publisher’s original navy-blue cloth, gilt-stamped design by Thomas Sturge Moore to spine and upper board. Former ownership inscription partially erased to front free end-paper, annotated throughout in neat pencil. Upper hinge cracked and joints rubbed but holding well, corners bumped and rubbed, spine toned. Contents clean save the inscriptions discussed above. A good copy. Yeats’ mystical essay on consciousness. The poet writes: ‘I have always sought to bring my mind close to the mind of Indian and Japanese poets, old women in Connacht,mediums in Soho, lay brothers whom I imagine dreaming in some mediaeval monastery the dreams of their village, learned authors who refer all to antiquity: to immerse it in the general mind where that mind is scarce separable from what we have began to call 'the subconscious’’ (p. 45). £65.00