Books

London, Macmillan and Co., 1928; 1933. . First editions, first impressions; 2 vols 8vo; Auden's ownership signature to front free endpaper and bookseller's ticket to front pastedown of The Tower, slight age-toning, minor spotting and offsetting to prelims and endpapers, occasional finger-soiling, The Winding Stair lacking 2 leaves (pp.75-78); publisher's green cloth with designs by T. Sturge Moore in gilt and in blind respectively, cloth slightly marked and rubbed, else very good. W.H. Auden's copies, with his ownership signature to the front free endpaper of The Tower, and with a bookseller's note to that effect on the front free endpaper of The Winding Stair.

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.