Thoor Ballylee. Home of William Butler Yeats. With a Foreword by T.R. Henn. Dublin: Dolmen Press, 1965. First Edition. Pictorial French wrappers. A nice bright copy.

Inscribed by Liam Miller to the poet and anthropologist Nathaniel Tarn, on the half-title.

A significant literary and historical tribute to the iconic tower that served as both a residence and a powerful symbol in the poetry of W.B. Yeats. This first edition, published by the renowned Dolmen Press in Dublin, was developed from a lecture delivered by Mary Hanley – a distinguished Yeats critic and Cambridge scholar, – in 1961.

Hanley had long been involved in preserving the legacy of Thoor Ballylee (a Norman tower in County Galway). Her original lecture was expanded and rearranged for this publication by Liam Miller, the founder of Dolmen Press and a key figure in Irish fine printing and literary culture.