The winding stair / by W. B. Yeats.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939.

Contributor:

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

English Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Genre:

Poetry.

Penn Provenance:

Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939 (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

10 unnumbered pages, 25 pages, 3 unnumbered pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : The Fountain Press, MCMXXIX [1929]

Contents:

In memory of Elva Gore Booth and Con Mankiewicz

Death

A dialogue of self and soul

Blood and the moon

Oil and blood

A woman young and old.

Notes:

Half-title signed by W. B. Yeats.

"Of this edition of The winding stair, six hundred and forty-two copies were printed on Kalmar paper in the printing house of William Edwin Rudge. Six hundred numbered copies, signed by the author, will be for sale. Distributed in America by Random House, and in Great Britian by Grant Richards and Humphrey Toulmin at the Cayme Press limited. Designed by Frederic Warde."

Dark blue cloth boards with pattern in gold stamped on front cover. Two small red leather labels lettered in gold "Yeats" and "Fountain Press" respectively pasted on spine at head and foot. Purple endpapers. Top edge gilt; others untrimmed.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy is no. 367.

Culture Class Collection copy has carbon copy of catalog card laid in.

Cited in:

Wade, A. Bibl. of the writings of W. B. Yeats, 164

OCLC:

1242241