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Yeats, William Butler. (1865 - 1939). "The Land of Heart's Desire". Portland, Maine: Thomas B. Mosher. 1905.

Hardcover. 8vo. 32 pp. Printed on hand-made paper (van Gelder). Cased binding out of an edition of 950. Boards heavily worn, spine covering perished but boards holding solidly; interior pages clean with some toning; early ownership signature dated 1907 and a later inscription on the ffe. 

From the library of the important American poet Frank Bidart, who received the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, the Griffin Poetry Prize Lifetime Recognition Award, and the 2017 National Book Award for Poetry for his book Half-light: Collected Poems 1965–2016. With a moving inscription to him from the poet and critic Lloyd Schwartz on the ffe, dated 1973: "For Frank - Yeats was forty when this little volume was reprinted, world-famous, and had not written any of his great poems yet. Life is very amazing! Love, Lloyd."

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Yeats, William Butler. (1865 - 1939). "The Land of Heart's Desire". Portland, Maine: Thomas B. Mosher. 1905.

Hardcover. 8vo. 32 pp. Printed on hand-made paper (van Gelder). Cased binding out of an edition of 950. Boards heavily worn, spine covering perished but boards holding solidly; interior pages clean with some toning; early ownership signature dated 1907 and a later inscription on the ffe. 

From the library of the important American poet Frank Bidart, who received the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, the Griffin Poetry Prize Lifetime Recognition Award, and the 2017 National Book Award for Poetry for his book Half-light: Collected Poems 1965–2016. With a moving inscription to him from the poet and critic Lloyd Schwartz on the ffe, dated 1973: "For Frank - Yeats was forty when this little volume was reprinted, world-famous, and had not written any of his great poems yet. Life is very amazing! Love, Lloyd."