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Gibbon, Monk. The Velvet Bow & Other Poems. London: Hutchinson, 1972. First Edition. Green Paper Covered Boards. Very Good. 94pp. Inscribed in 1975 by Gibbon for Barbara & Jim Read who seem to be his wife’s sister & brother in law. Laid in is a clipping from the June 28 1969 Irish Times with the first printing of the title poem The Velvet Bow with two typos which Gibbon has corrected. He also adds a note outlining the circumstances of the poem’s genesis which finishes ” I send it to my dear brother-in-law who I know has always been capable of similar appreciation.” Offsetting at end papers.
Let Us Compare Mythologies 
She Inserts the Key 
Our Exagmination Round His Factification for Incamination of 'Work in Progress'