Tower A Facsimile Edition

Name: Tower A Facsimile Edition
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ISBN: 9780743247283

ISBN-10: 0743247280

ISBN-13: 9780743247283

Edition: 2004 (Facsimile)

Authors: William Butler Yeats

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The first edition of W. B. Yeats'sThe Towerappeared in bookstores in London on Valentine's Day, 1928. His English publisher printed just 2,000 copies of this slender volume of twenty-one poems, priced at six shillings. The book was immediately embraced by book buyers and critics alike, and it quickly became a bestseller. Subsequent versions of the volume made various changes throughout, but this Scribner facsimile edition reproduces exactly that seminal first edition as it reached its earliest audience in 1928, adding an introduction and notes by esteemed Yeats scholar Richard J. Finneran. Written between 1912 and 1927, these poems ("Sailing to Byzantium," "Leda and the Swan," and "Among…

Book details

List price: $16.99
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Scribner
Publication date: 1/20/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 160
Size: 5.13" wide x 7.50" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.352
Language: English



Preface


Introduction


The Tower (1928)


Notes to Yeats's Notes


Notes to the Poems