Robert Creeley. First edition. Dust Jacket: Very Good+ Jacket design by a David Lunn. An unclipped price ($3.95) jacket. Some wear and tear around the edges of the jacket. In mylar protective wrapper.
Hardcover: Near Fine New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1963. Light grey/blue cloth with black lettering, 190 pp. No writing or markings in the book.
Creeley was born in 1926 in Arlington, MA and attended Harvard before getting his MA from New Mexico.
Known more for his poetry, he wrote more than 60 books and The Island was his first and only novel.
Creeley’s marriage to Ann MacKinnon ended in divorce in 1955. The breakup of that relationship is chronicled in fictional form in the novel. It drew upon his experiences on the island of Mallorca, off the coast of Spain, where he lived with MacKinnon and their three children in 1953-54.
