8VO, 333 pgs., Hardcover Hardcover: Light orange cloth binding with title on spine in gold. Corners lightly bumped. Foredge foxing. Frontispiece and text pages are crisp and clean. Nice tight binding. Jacket: Lightly soiled, some rubbing. Very attractive copy in protective mylar


William Monk Gibbon (1896 - 29 November 1987) was an Irish poet and prolific author. He wrote also novels, travel writing and criticism. He has been characterised as "self-regarding and prickly".[1]

Gibbon, [William] Monk (1896-1987), man of letters; born in Dublin and educated at St Columba's College and Oxford, he served in the First World War. Inglorious Soldier (1968) tells of his war experiences.

[William] Monk Gibbon was born in Dublin on December 15, 1896, and was educated at St. Columba's College, Rathfarnham, and Keble College, Oxford. He served in World War I from 1914 until he was invalided out in 1918. While home on leave during the 1916 Rising, he was greatly affected by the execution he witnessed of Francis Sheehy-Skeffington