The Winding Stair. New York: The Fountain Press, 1929. First Edition, Limited Issue. Pp, 26, edges untrimmed, top edge gilt. Publisher’s dark blue cloth, gilt ruled pattern on front and back covers; title in gilt on spine, with two red leather labels, purple endpapers. Scuff mark title label on spine with peeling to free endpaper, faded ink stamp to front & back endpapers; otherwise a nice bright copy.

Limited Edition of 640 Numbered Copies, Signed by W.B. Yeats.

Containing six poems, the phrase ‘winding stair’ is used in the book’s third poem, ‘A Dialogue of Self and Soul.’

The Winding Stair refers to the staircase in the Thoor Ballylee castle which Yeats had purchased and lived in with his family for some time. Yeats saw the castle as a vital connection to the aristocratic Irish past which he admired.

[Wade 164].