From Healy Rare Books, Galway, Ireland
AbeBooks Seller Since November 15, 2010
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Rare copy in fine dust jacket. second impression. p.p. 110 + 2. Extremely rare dust jacket mirroring the cover s iconic design. D.J. is not price clipped, showing the original 6/- net price. Regrettably price has increased slightly since 1928. In 1928 - the year he turned 63 - the then-world-famous poet William Butler Yeats published a slim, beautifully-produced volume called The Tower. Yeats has received the Nobel Prize in 1923, and the book was awaited with considerable anticipation. The book s title referred explicitly to Thoor Ballylee , a derelict Norman stone tower located near Coole Park, the estate owned by Yeats s friend Lady Gregory. Yeats had purchased Thoor Ballylee in 1917. After the tower was restored, it became a summer home for himself and his wife, Georgie Hyde-Lees. T. Sturge-Moore s beautiful image on the cover of The Tower shows Thoor Ballylee reflected in the still water below it. Seller Inventory # 484_2020
Bibliographic Details
Title: The Tower
Publisher: Macmillan & Co, London
Publication Date: 1928
Condition: Fine
Edition: First.
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Norman Healy. Meadowlands, Lioscarraig, Threadneddle Road,Galway. Ireland. Telephone: 00353-91-529980 - normanhealy@eircom.net
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