
                         Roanoke Times
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DATE: FRIDAY, July 20, 1990                   TAG: 9007200568
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A/3   EDITION: EVENING 
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DATELINE: LONDON                                 LENGTH: Short

COLLECTOR BUYS YEATS NOTEBOOK FOR $360,000

A notebook in which William Butler Yeats wrote much of his poetry and prose over three years sold at Sotheby's for $360,000, the auctioneers said.

H.D. Lyon, a London dealer, bought the Yeats notebook. The seller was not identified but was believed to be a collector.

In 1923, Yeats became the first Irishman to win the Nobel Prize for literature.

The Great Vellum Notebook, as the manuscript is known, contains 380 pages and was used by Yeats from November 1930 to the summer of 1933, six years before his death.

The notebook was part of a sale Thursday of English literary and historical manuscripts and books that totaled $2.13 million, Sotheby's said.

Other items included letters written by Indian independence leader Mohandas Gandhi and a script for a James Bond movie.

- Associated Press

by CNB