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London: Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1928. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 7x5x0. Moore, Thomas Sturge (cover and jacket design). First edition, one of 2500 copies (Wade 158). Includes scarce jacket. 1/2 inch chips from jacket spine head and foot, and corner of rear panel, with minimal loss along other edges. Binding tight, pages clean and bright, boards in excellent condition with all gilt decorations still present. 1928 Hard Cover. vi, 110, 2 pp. Green cloth with elaborate gilt decorations by Thomas Sturge Moore, mirrored in the jacket design. "...the greatest poetry of Yeats in his difficult later manner... Yeats, however complicated his thought, remained a consummate musician in his expression of it..." (Connolly, The Modern Movement 56a) Includes: Sailing to Byzantium; The Tower; Meditations in Time of Civil War; Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen; The Wheel; Youth and Age; The New Faces; A Prayer for My Son; Twon Songs from a Play; Wisdom; Leda and the Swan; On a…

The Tower is a book of poems by W. B. Yeats, published in 1928. The collection is viewed as one of the poet's most important, containing some of his most famous poems, such as 'Sailing to Byzantium,' 'Leda and the Swan,' and 'Among School Children.' The Tower furthered Yeats's meditations on aging, the creative process, and the nature of the physical and the spiritual world.

The first edition of 'The Tower' published by Macmillan Publishers in 1928 can often be detected by its distinctive hardcover, the publisher's mark, and potentially by the print run number if available.