"TO PROLONG THE MOMENT OF CONTEMPLATION, THE MOMENT WHEN WE ARE BOTH ASLEEP AND AWAKE, WHICH IS THE ONE MOMENT OF CREATION"
YEATS, William Butler. Essays. New York: Macmillan, 1924. Octavo, original half blue cloth, paper spine and cover labels, uncut and unopened.
Signed limited first American edition, number 211 of only 250 copies signed by Yeats.
Contains Yeats' essays from 1896 to 1917 on such subjects as "The Philosophy of Shelley's Poetry," "William Blake and the Imagination," "The Celtic Element in Literature," and "The Symbolism of Poetry." Preceded by the London first edition of the same year. Roth 190. Wade 142. Small bookseller's label on rear pastedown.
Closed tear to top margin of page 7, faint oval impression on rear board. A nearly fine copy.