one of only forty sets of the rare and desirable suite of signed etchings accompanying the limited edition book. While the book is an edition of 426 copies, there were only 50 total suites of etchings made for this Arion Press Poems of W.B. Yeats comprising forty sets for sale, plus five roman-numbered artist's proofs and five publisher's proofs.

"The poetry of William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) burst the boundaries of its native Ireland to become part of world culture. Helen Vendler, one of the foremost authorities on modern poetry and a University Professor at Harvard, selected for the Arion Press 145 poems and provided an introductory essay for the book. Richard Diebenkorn (1922-93), internationally recognized as one of America's leading artists, took the Yeatsian theme of an empty coat on a hanger to produce a series of prints transforming the garment from a representational frock-coat into an abstracted suit-bag. The sixth etching is a double map of Ireland, indicative of that divided country"--From the Publisher.