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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.

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.