Irish Fairy and Folk Tales, W. B. Yeats, Illustrated, Folio Society, 2007

London: Folio Society, 2007. First Thus. The book is Fine/Like New. Selected and edited, with an introduction by Yeats. Foreword by Paul Muldoon. Tight with solid hinges, good tips with black, red & silver pictorial boards, The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings, and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. Silver endpapers. Black and white illustrations by Linda Farquharson. No dust jacket, as issued. The slipcase is near fine with crinkle to bottom corner and light wear. 336 pages. 6 x 9¼ " tall. First published by Walter Scott Ltd in 1888 as "Fairy and folk tales of the Irish peasantry", but was reprinted in 1893 with the present title.

In this charming collection, readers will find themselves transported to the shadowy, twilit world of Celtic myth and legend - where the fairy people work their mischief, where priests and the devil wage an endless struggle for the souls of humankind, where clever wives outwit murderous giants and druids cast spells.