March 2021 Catalogue

60 I m a g i n e d W o r l d s E a r l y M a r c h 2 0 2 1 “A Peak Of English Poetry” 59. YEATS, William Butler. The Winding Stair and Other Poems. London, 1933. Octavo, original blind-stamped green cloth, dust jacket. $3000. Click for more info First English edition, substantially revised and expanded from the preceding limited edition of only 642 copies. Described, along with The Tower , as “the greatest poetry of Yeats in his difficult later manner… a peak in English poetry,” The Winding Stair includes one of Yeats’ most resonant poems, “A Dialogue of Self and Soul” (Connolly, 56B). One of only 2000 copies printed. Book fine, dust jacket near-fine with light wear and toning to extremities. A lovely copy. “Why should the imagination of a man / Long past his prime remember things that are / Emblematic of love and war? ”