W.B. Yeats — The Tower (1928) First UK Edition, with Scarce Dust Jacket
London: Macmillan and Co., 1928.
First edition, one of only 2000 copies printed. 8vo (8.75 x 5.75 in). 110pp + 2pp publisher’s ads for The Books and Works of W.B. Yeats. Bound in original green cloth, elaborately decorated in gilt to spine and front cover with Thomas Sturge Moore’s iconic tower motif. All edges untrimmed.
 
Condition:
•  Cloth: Bright gilt, minimal wear; small bump to lower rear corner.
•  Interior: Bookseller’s note in pencil to front flyleaf; offsetting to endpapers from jacket; intermittent foxing to pages
•  Dust Jacket: Scarce first-state jacket, correctly priced “6/- net” on front flap. Fair only, separated at spine with loss to head and tail, chipping to folds and upper edge; repairs with acid-free tape visible on verso.
 
Notes:
Yeats’s single most important collection, The Tower gathers many of his most enduring poems, including Sailing to Byzantium, Leda and the Swan, and Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen. A cornerstone of modernist poetry and a landmark in Irish literary history.
 
Overall: A very good copy in the rare first-state dust jacket (fair), increasingly scarce in commerce.