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YEATS, W. B.
The Tower.
First edition, presentation copy, with the author's signed inscription in ink on the front free endpaper, "Lady Ottoline Morrell from WB Yeats June 22 1928", and signed by the author on the title page; and with Lady Ottoline Morrell's pencilled monogram dated "Feb 23 1928" (publication date was 14 February) above Yeats's inscription. Published in an edition of 2,000 copies, The Tower is generally recognised as the summit of Yeats's creative achievement in the post-war years, bringing together poems quarried from Seven Poems and a Fragment, The Cat and the Moon and October Blast. A fine presentation: after their marriage in 1917, the Yeatses first lived in Oxford, spending occasional weekends at nearby Garsington, where Lady Ottoline Morrell presided over the literary and intellectual lions of Bloomsbury. Lady Ottoline was a convert to radical Irish politics in the 1920s and remained friends with Yeats after his return to Ireland in early 1922. She played a significant role in his personal relationships, introducing him to Dorothy Wellesley, with whom he became intimate friends in the last years of his life.
Octavo. Original green cloth, upper board and spine elaborately blocked after a design by Sturge Moore and titles gilt, all edges untrimmed. Custom green morocco-backed slipcase and chemise. A fine copy.
