Yeats poems sold for £6,462

A copy of W.B. Yeats's Nine Poems, privately printed in a limited edition of 25, was sold in London yesterday for £6,462 sterling…

A copy of W.B. Yeats's Nine Poems, privately printed in a limited edition of 25, was sold in London yesterday for £6,462 sterling. The volume, published in 1918, had been expected to make no more than £4,000 in a sale at Christie's which featured a almost 50 works by Yeats.

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