The Winding Stair by YEATS, W.B

Cornell University Press, 1995. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,800grams, ISBN:0801431247

UK: Macmillan, 1933. First Edition . Decorative Cloth. Very Good ++/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 1st Edition 1933. Which consisted of 2000 copies, of one of the great collections of poetry from Yeats's later years. Included are "Coole Park," "For Anne Gregory," "Byzantium," "A Dialogue of Self and Soul" and the Crazy Jane poems. (There had been a briefer collection by the same title, published in New York by the Fountain Press in 1929, but that collection did not include, for example, four of the five poems cited above.) The elaborate binding design is by T. Sturge Moore. Book is very good++ and quite bright. Light edge rubbing. Contents good. More images can be taken upon request. Ref18408

Macmillan, London., 1933. First edition. Octavo. pp x, 101. 2000 copies were printed. Cover design by T. Sturge Moore in blind on front cover and gilt on spine. Contains the "Crazy Jane" poems. With the erratum slip tipped in at p.85. Fine in near-fine dustwrapper, repeating the cover design, with a fingernal-size chip at the tail of the spine.

New York: The Fountain Press, 1929. Cloth. Near Fine. SIGNED BY WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS on the half-title. #191 of 600 copies signed by the poet and distributed (300 to America via Random House and 300 to Great Britain via Grant Richards and Humphrey Toulmin at the Cayme Press Limited). The entire limitation has been designed by Frederick Warde. This copy clean, well-preserved and VG+ to Near Fine in its navy-blue cloth, with bright, decorative gilt-bordering along the panels and 2 separate, clean leather labels (one noting the author, the other the publisher) along the spine. One tiny spot at the front panel, decorative former owner bookplate to the front pastedown and light offseting along the edges of both endpapers and pastedowns. Still though, very presentable and significant as such,

New York: The Fountain Press 1929. 8vo. This is copy no. 410 of an edition limited to 600 numbered copies signed by the author. Signed on the half-title. 26, (1) pp. Publisher's dark blue cloth with gilt lines to boards. Gilt title lettering & decoration to spine with maroon leather publisher & author labels (the publisher label is a modern replacement). Faint dampstain to rear board. Slight chipping to edge of front free endpaper. Internally clean. This is the first printing of Yeats' major Winding Stair collection. . Very Good. Cloth. Signed Limited Edition. 1929.

New York: The Fountain Press, 1929. Limited Edition. Cloth. Very good. Signed limited edition of The Winding Stair by William Butler Yeats, published in 1929 by The Fountain Press.. Octavo, [6], 25pp, [2]. Publisher's blue cloth, title stamped in gilt on spine, author's name in gilt over small red morocco label. Light wear to cloth, with some faint spotting and sunning to the spine. Internally clean, free of marks or notations. Bookplate from American author Frank C. Reilly on front endpaper. This work was designed by Frederic Warde and printed on Kalmar Paper at the printing house of William Edwin Rudge. (Wade, 164) From a limited edition of 600 copies, this being number 157. This copy is signed by William Butler Yeats on the half title. "The Winding Stair" is a collection of poems by the renowned Irish poet William Butler Yeats. Yeats reflects on the passage of time, love, and the complexities of human relationships, using a winding stair as a metaphor for life's journey. Through his lyrical and… Read More

New York: Fountain Press, 1929. 1st US Edition. Very good +. 1st US Edition. Wade 170, Connolly 100. Book near-fine, slight fading of purple front and rear paste-downs and endpapers; no dustjacket as issued; signed/limited edition number 45/642; housed in a custom quarter-leather clamshell box with marbled boards by Don Kobetsky.