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YEATS, William Butler (1865-1939). The Tower. London: Macmillan and Co., 1928. 8° (192 x 129mm). Half title, 2-page publisher's advertisements at end. (Fore-edges spotted, creeping onto a few leaves.) Original green pictorial cloth gilt designed by T. Sturge Moore, dust-jacket (very slight wear at head of spine, very light wear at extremities of dust-jacket). Provenance: Walter Hirst (bookplate).
YEATS, William Butler (1865-1939). The Tower. London: Macmillan and Co., 1928. 8° (192 x 129mm). Half title, 2-page publisher's advertisements at end. (Fore-edges spotted, creeping onto a few leaves.) Original green pictorial cloth gilt designed by T. Sturge Moore, dust-jacket (very slight wear at head of spine, very light wear at extremities of dust-jacket). Provenance: Walter Hirst (bookplate).

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YEATS, William Butler (1865-1939). The Tower. London: Macmillan and Co., 1928. 8° (192 x 129mm). Half title, 2-page publisher's advertisements at end. (Fore-edges spotted, creeping onto a few leaves.) Original green pictorial cloth gilt designed by T. Sturge Moore, dust-jacket (very slight wear at head of spine, very light wear at extremities of dust-jacket). Provenance: Walter Hirst (bookplate).

FIRST EDITION. The Tower contains some of Yeats's best known poems, such as 'Leda and the Swan' and 'Sailing to Byzantium', works tinged by mysticism, theosophy and existentialism. Wade 158.

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