Hardcover. 8vo. Unpaginated. Numbered 277 of the limited edition of 600 copies intended for sale (of a total printing of 642 copies). Signed by Yeats in ink on the half title. Original blue cloth, twin column gilt helix scroll on boards, fine with intact mounted red morocco spine labels. Some sunning to gilt-flecked endpapers, else fine. Ex-libris label to inside front board of Joseph Halle Schaffner.
The Winding Stair has been hailed by Cyril Connelly as "the greatest poetry of Yeats in his difficult later manner...[representing] a peak in English poetry." This volume contains the true first appearance of The Winding Stair, companion to The Tower (1928), and later published in Britain in 1933, with additional poems. These two titles both reference Thoor Ballylee, the Norman tower acquired by Yeats and dedicated to his wife Georgie Hyde-Lees. It was at Thoor Ballylee where Yeats wrote many of his later works.
Joseph Halle Schaffner (1897-1972) spent most of his life in his native Chicago as director of the clothing-manufacturing firm Hart, Schaffner, and Marx. He formed several collections reflecting both literary and historical interests. His greatest collecting passion was the history of science, and he bequeathed to the University of Chicago an extraordinary collection of several hundred scientific and medical rare books and manuscripts.
Hardcover. 8vo. Unpaginated. Numbered 277 of the limited edition of 600 copies intended for sale (of a total printing of 642 copies). Signed by Yeats in ink on the half title. Original blue cloth, twin column gilt helix scroll on boards, fine with intact mounted red morocco spine labels. Some sunning to gilt-flecked endpapers, else fine. Ex-libris label to inside front board of Joseph Halle Schaffner.
The Winding Stair has been hailed by Cyril Connelly as "the greatest poetry of Yeats in his difficult later manner...[representing] a peak in English poetry." This volume contains the true first appearance of The Winding Stair, companion to The Tower (1928), and later published in Britain in 1933, with additional poems. These two titles both reference Thoor Ballylee, the Norman tower acquired by Yeats and dedicated to his wife Georgie Hyde-Lees. It was at Thoor Ballylee where Yeats wrote many of his later works.
Joseph Halle Schaffner (1897-1972) spent most of his life in his native Chicago as director of the clothing-manufacturing firm Hart, Schaffner, and Marx. He formed several collections reflecting both literary and historical interests. His greatest collecting passion was the history of science, and he bequeathed to the University of Chicago an extraordinary collection of several hundred scientific and medical rare books and manuscripts.