The Winding Stair

  • SIGNED
  • 1929
By Yeats, William Butler
1929. New York: The Fountain Press, 1929.

8vo, 26, [1] pp. Original blue cloth, red morocco labels to spine, spine lettered in gilt, floral roll to boards gilt, purple endpapers, top edge gilt, others untrimmed. Very good copy seldom found better.

§ Copy #178 of 642 copies signed by Yeats at the front. This is the true first appearance of The Winding Stair collection, Yeats's follow up to The Tower (1928), which was later published in the UK in 1933 with some poems added. Wade 164. Connolly, The Modern Movement, 56b.

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Title

The Winding Stair

Author

Yeats, William Butler

Condition

Unknown

Date

1929


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