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The Tower
by Yeats, William Butler
- Used
- first
- Condition
- Cloth. Fine in very good dust jacket (nick at head of spine panel)
- Seller
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New York, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York, 1928. First American edition. 110 pp. Printed at the Norwood Press, J.S. Cushing Co., with the Thomas Sturge Moore design featuring Thoore Ballylee. 8vo. Cloth. Fine in very good dust jacket (nick at head of spine panel). First American edition. 110 pp. Printed at the Norwood Press, J.S. Cushing Co., with the Thomas Sturge Moore design featuring Thoore Ballylee. 8vo. The First American. First American edition of one of Yeats' great books, containing "Sailing to Byzantium", "The Tower", "Leda and the Swan," etc. A Connolly 100 title ("A peak in English poetry"). Wade 58; Connolly, Modern Movement, 156; Roth 208
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- Bookseller
- James Cummins Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 324685
- Title
- The Tower
- Author
- Yeats, William Butler
- Format/Binding
- 110 pp. Printed at the Norwood Press, J.S. Cushing Co., with the Thomas Sturge Moore design featuring Thoore Ballylee. 8vo
- Book Condition
- Used - Cloth. Fine in very good dust jacket (nick at head of spine panel)
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First American edition
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1928
- Keywords
- Poetry
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
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About the Seller
James Cummins Bookseller
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New York, New York
About James Cummins Bookseller
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