The Winding Stair and Other Poems. London: Macmillan, 1933. First Edition. Pp, 101. Olive green cloth boards, decorated in blind on front cover, in publisher’s green dust jacket. Jacket lightly faded, otherwise a fine bright copy.

One of 2000 copies printed. 

 Cover and dust jacket designed by Thomas Sturge Moore (1870 – 1944), English author, poet and wood engraver especially noted for his bookplate designs.

Published five years after ‘The Tower’ the title refers to the staircase in the Thoor Ballylee castle which Yeats had purchased and lived in with his family for some time.

The Winding Stair contains “A Dialogue of Self and Soul”, “Coole Park”, “1929”, “Coole Park and Ballylee”, “1931”, “For Anne Gregory”, “Byzantium”, “Vacillation” and the Crazy Jane poems. A different collection under the same title was published in a limited edition by the Fountain Press in New York in 1929, but that collection did not include most of the poems cited above.

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