The Tower.
"Whatever is begotten born and dies. Caught in that sensual music all neglect monuments of unaging intellect": First edition of William Butler Yeats' The Tower; in the rare original dust jacket
The Tower.
YEATS, William Butler [W.B.].
$2,000.00
Item Number: 146520
London: Macmillan and Co. Limited, 1928.
First edition of what is generally considered Yeats’ single most important volume, one of 2000 copies. Octavo, original publisher’s elaborately gilt-decorated pictorial olive green cloth with Thomas Sturge Moore’s iconic engraving of Thoor Ballylee. Near fine in the rare original dust jacket which is in very good condition, bookplate to the front pastedown. A very nice example of this important work.
Yeats' first major volume of poetry published following his award of the 1923 Nobel Prize in Literature, The Tower contains many of Yeat's most influential and recognizable poems, including Leda and the Swan, Sailing to Byzantium, Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen, and Among School Children. It is considered one of the poet's most important volumes, and firmly established his place in the Modernist canon.
