W. B. Yeats — The Countess Cathleen

London, T. Fisher Unwin, 1922 . Cloth. An exceptionally bright example of the thirteenth edition of W. B. Yeats's celebrated blank verse drama, based on Irish legend. The 1922 thirteenth edition of this work, which was first published in 1892. This blank verse drama is set in Ireland during a famine. An idealistic Countess sells her soul to the devil so that she can save her tenants from starvation and from damnation for having sold their own souls.  Yeats based the play on a purported Irish legend, "The Countess Cathleen O'Shea", which had been printed in an Anglo-Irish newspaper in 1867. In the publisher's original paper wraps. Back strip significantly age toned, with wrap perimeters lightly age toned. Otherwise, externally excellent. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: None. Very Good Indeed .