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THE TOWER BY W. B. YEATS 1928 RARE FIRST EDITION
THE TOWER BY W. B. YEATS 1928 RARE FIRST EDITION
THE TOWER BY W. B. YEATS 1928 RARE FIRST EDITION
THE TOWER BY W. B. YEATS 1928 RARE FIRST EDITION
THE TOWER BY W. B. YEATS 1928 RARE FIRST EDITION
THE TOWER BY W. B. YEATS 1928 RARE FIRST EDITION
THE TOWER BY W. B. YEATS 1928 RARE FIRST EDITION
THE TOWER BY W. B. YEATS 1928 RARE FIRST EDITION
THE TOWER BY W. B. YEATS 1928 RARE FIRST EDITION
THE TOWER BY W. B. YEATS 1928 RARE FIRST EDITION
THE TOWER BY W. B. YEATS 1928 RARE FIRST EDITION
THE TOWER BY W. B. YEATS 1928 RARE FIRST EDITION
THE TOWER BY W. B. YEATS 1928 RARE FIRST EDITION
THE TOWER BY W. B. YEATS 1928 RARE FIRST EDITION
THE TOWER BY W. B. YEATS 1928 RARE FIRST EDITION

THE TOWER BY W. B. YEATS 1928 RARE FIRST EDITION

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[YEATS, W. B.]. The Tower. London: Macmillan and Co. Ltd., 1928.

First UK edition, first impression. Cloth-bound; hardcover; octavo (20cm x 13cm x 1.5cm); pp. vi, 110, [2] advertisements. English text. Bound in publisher's original green cloth, titles and pictorial decoration to spine and front cover in gilt; initial and terminal blanks plus half-title present. Condition: GOOD. Binding tight and secure. Light marking to rear cover. Interior very well-preserved. Bookplate to front pastedown. Lacking dust jacket.

Notes: The first edition of what is generally accepted to be Yeats's single most important collection. The Tower includes many of Yeats's greatest and most enduring poems, including "Sailing to Byzantium", "Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen", "Leda and the Swan", and "Among School Children". Allan Wade notes that a first edition of 2,000 copies was published 14 February 1928. A second impression was required the following month and a third impression the following year. Wade 158.
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