Lot 701
Yeats, W.B.
Rare Books, Maps & Manuscripts
Auction: Rare Books, Maps & Manuscripts
£750
Description
The tower. London: Macmillan, 1928. First edition, 8vo., original gilt decorated green cloth after a design by Sturge Moore, uncut, damage to upper edge of the upper wrapper, wrapper also with chips at head and tail, slight discolouration of the endpapers
Footnote
Note: Wade 158. "It was rapidly seen as a supreme achievement, and has been recognized as one of the key books of the twentieth century." (R.F. Foster W.B. Yeats. Vol. 2 The Arch-poet, 2003, p.362). Along with The Winding stair regarded by Connolly in The Modern Movement as "a peak in English poetry".