W. B. YEATS. R. F. Foster. — Words Alone. Yeats and his Inheritances.

Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1st Edition, First Edition (first printing). 8vo. xix, 236pp. Black boards lettered in gold at the spine. A virtually fine copy in virtually fine non-price-clipped dust wrapper. A scholarly study of Irish literature that influenced the young Yeats, based on the author's Clark Lectures and included analysis of Sheridan LeFanu's occult and supernatural novels, and William Carleton's fairy-lore and folktale collections., Near Fine, Near Fine