The Winding Stair

A US-before-UK trap and a contents trap at once. The Fountain Press (New York) 1929 signed limited is the true first appearance of The Winding Stair — the collection reached print in America, not in Ireland or England. Macmillan's London trade edition of 1933 is a different and substantially larger book, 'The Winding Stair and Other Poems' (Wade 169), in green cloth decorated in blind on the upper board and lettered in gilt on the spine, issued in a dust jacket. Macmillan's New York 1933 printing is the first American trade edition and follows London. Both the 1929 Fountain Press and the 1933 Macmillan London are collected — the former for priority of the title, the latter as the first appearance of the enlarged collection. The discriminator is the title itself: a volume titled with 'and Other Poems' is never the 1929 first.