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London, Macmillan and Co., 1928. . First edition, first impression; 8vo; minor spotting to prelims, slight offsetting to endpapers, else unmarked internally; publisher's green cloth with elaborate art deco design by T. Sturge Moore, lettered and stamped in gilt, minor oxidisation to gilt design, with the unclipped pictorial dust-jacket replicating the design, spine darkened, a couple of old internal tape repairs to top edge of front panel and spine ends, else very good. Important collection of Yeats' poetry containing poems such as 'Sailing To Byzantium' and 'Leda and the Swan'.

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.