MOLY

First edition, first printing. Original yellow cloth with gilt titles to the spine, in dustwrapper. A fine copy, the binding square and firm with slight bumping at the spine tips, the contents, with faint offsetting at the endpapers, are otherwise clean throughout and without stamps or inscriptions. Complete with the lightly rubbed and creased original dustwrapper which has three tiny pen marks to the rear panel and a short closed tear at the top edge of the front panel. Not price clipped (£1.00 to the bottom of the front flap).

'Moly' was Gunn's fifth collection and his first since 'Touch' (1967). In his review ('New York Review of Books', 1973), Stephen Spender writes of the book that '[i]t is as though A. E. Housman were dealing with the subject matter of 'Howl', or Tennyson were on the side of the Lotus Eaters.' Published March 23, 1971, in an edition of 4000 copies. (Hagstrom A15).