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1932-38 W.B. Yeats signature on Parcel Post label

1932-38 W.B. Yeats signature on Parcel Post label, inscribed in his hand "Book of Poems". manuscript on printed form 13 by 14cm., 5 by 5.7in. A Customs declaration form issued by The Irish Post Office completed in ink entirely in Yeats' hand. Addressed to Oxford, Yeats gives a value of fifteen shillings for the "book of poems" and his address as "Riversdale, Willbrook, Rathfarnham, Co. Dublin", where he lived from 1932 to 1938. A delightful and rare piece of ephemera relating to the Irish Nobel Laureate.

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