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YEATS, WILLIAM BUTLER. 1865-1939.
The Tower. London: Macmillan & Company, 1928.

5 December 2019, 10:00 EST
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YEATS, WILLIAM BUTLER. 1865-1939.

The Tower. London: Macmillan & Company, 1928. 8vo. Publisher's green cloth, pictorially stamped in gilt after a design by T. Sturge Moore, publisher's matching blue pictorial dust jacket printed in black, minor chipping to jacket at extremities, minor soiling.

FIRST EDITION OF YEATS'S MOST IMPORTANT COLLECTION, in the scarce original dust jacket. The Tower contains a number of his most esteemed poems, including "Sailing to Byzantium" and "Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen." Percy Hutchison, writing in The New York Times observed, "Yeats has not brought his poetry down; he has raised man up." Wade 158.

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