W. B. Yeats, Stephen Parrish (Editor)
"The Wild Swans at Coole": Manuscript Materials.
Cornell University Press, 1994. The Cornell Yeats. First edition. 0801430666 xxxix/431 pages.
Volume, measuring approximately 7" x 9.75", is bound in dark blue cloth, with stamped gilt lettering to spine and facsimile signature stamped in gold on front cover. Book is in fine condition, with firm binding, clean and bright interior. Dust jacket exhibits light shelfwear. Jacket is preserved in mylar cover. 
""The most ambitious of the many important projects in current studies of Yeats and perhaps of modern poetry generally.... The list of both general and series editors, as well as prospective preparers of individual volumes, reads like a Who's Who of Yeats textual studies in North America. Further, the project carries the blessing of Yeats's heirs and bespeaks an ongoing commitment from a major university press.... The series will inevitably engender critical studies based on a more solid footing than those of any other modern poet.... Its volumes will be consulted long after gyres of currently fashionable theory have run on."―Yeats Annual (1983)
First published in 1917 in a volume including twenty-three poems and a play, "The Wild Swans at Coole" was reissued in 1919 without the play and with seventeen additional poems. The Cornell Yeats edition includes transcriptions of manuscript materials for the poems in both collections, accompanied by a generous number of facsimiles."