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Touch

Name: Touch
Author: GUNN, Thom

Book Description

FIRST EDITION. Slim 8vo. Black cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Faint spotting to ffep, else, clean and tight. Poetry Book Society Bulletin (No. 54, September 1967) laid in: Touch was the Society’s Autumn Choice for 1967. In the original typographic dust jacket: spine gently sunned, head of spine a little chipped, creasing and short closed tear to top edge, foxed. A very good copy.

Dealer Notes

In ‘Thom Gunn Writes...’ Gunn thanks the Poetry Society for selecting Touch for its Autumn Choice, but expresses his ambivalence about the collection: “I find the book difficult to speak about. I sent it off confidently, but by the time I got the proofs a certain revulsion had set in...” (PBSB).

Author GUNN, Thom

Date 1967

Publisher London: Faber and Faber

Condition Very good/ very good

Price: £35.00

Offered by Quair Books

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