8vo, original dark blue cloth, lettered in gilt, publisher's monogram stamped in blind on back cover, black endpapers. Slightly cocked, extreme upper fore-tips of covers a bit bumped, ffront cover slightly rubbed, ront inner hinge cracked but intact, otherwise a very good copy. Slightly cocked, extreme upper fore-tips of covers a bit bumped, ffront cover slightly rubbed, ront inner hinge cracked but intact, otherwise a very good copy First edition of Yeats's first collection of poems. One of 500 copies printed. Wade 2. Hayward 295.
8vo, original navy blue cloth. A fine copy. First American edition. Wade 50. In addition to the title poem, this collection includes "The Folly of Being Comforted", "Adam's Curse", "The Song of Red Hanrahan", among other poems. In The Seven Woods "marks, rather uneasily, a transition. The title-poem . celebrated the peace of Coole and the restoration of a sense of proportion in escape from public agitation, with the threat of apocalypse introduced ironically at the end. The newer poems . were introspective in their own way, but the autobiographical note, diffused and distant in his early lyrics, sounded here with a new confidence, expressed in a harder diction . his poetry was beginning - if unevenly - to reflect his achieved personality." - Foster, W. B. Yeats: A Life, pp. 301-302.
8vo, original cloth, dust jacket. An important association copy, in very fine condition. An important association copy, in very fine condition First edition. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author to Robert Bly and his wife on the front free endpaper: "For Robert and Ruth with love from Tomas." Below this inscription is a portrait of a man with the caption "I have not read this book . . ." Robert Bly, who translated Tranströmer's poems into English and was one of the Swedish Nobel Prize Laureate's closest literary friends, has annotated the title-page with a record of the poems he has translated; Bly has also annotated pages 10-11 and the table of contents at the rear of the book. Bly translated three of Tranströmer's books, including his first book under Bly's Seventies Press imprint. In 2001, Bonniers published the correspondence between Tranströmer and Bly, a twenty-six-year span of correspondence from 1965-1991. Tranströmer won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2011.
