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[4], 41, [3] pages. No dust jacket present. Rare autographed copy. Signed on the half-title page by the author, along with the word 'autographed'. Inscribed on the fep by previous owner Harold S. Shulmans (bookplate present). The inscription reads To Ella and Betty These hours we spend at Crater Lake are a symbol of our Glorious voyage in family companionship through the awesome and friendly beauty of the Northwest and Canada Harold August 20, 1954. Crater Lake is a volcanic crater lake in south-central Oregon in the United States. It is the main feature of Crater Lake National Park and is a tourist attraction for its deep blue color and water clarity. The lake partly fills a 2,148-foot-deep caldera that was formed around 7,700 (± 150) years ago by the collapse of the volcano Mount Mazama. With a depth of 1,949 feet, the lake is the deepest in the United States. In the world, it ranks tenth for maximum depth, as well as third for mean depth. Crater Lake features two small islands. Wizard Island, located near the western shore of the lake, is about 316 acres in size. Phantom Ship, a natural rock pillar, is located near the southern shore. Since 2002, one of Oregon's regular-issue license-plate design has featured Crater Lake and a one-time plate surcharge is used to support the operation of Crater Lake National Park. The commemorative Oregon State Quarter, which was released by the United States Mint in 2005, features an image of Crater Lake on its reverse. The lake and surrounding park areas offer many recreational activities, including hiking, biking, snowshoeing, fishing, and cross-country skiing. Ernest G. "Gerry" Moll (1900 1997) was an Oregon poet of the mid-twentieth century who served on the University of Oregon faculty for thirty-eight years. His collections Blue Interval and Campus Sonnets are about Oregon, and his years at the university are memorialized by a faculty research award named in his honor. He received the university s medal for distinguished academic service upon his retirement in 1966. Moll was born in Murtoa, Victoria, Australia, on August 25, 1900. He graduated from Lawrence College in in 1922. He obtained a master of arts degree at Harvard University in 1923. In 1928, Moll was appointed assistant professor of English at the University of Oregon, where he taught until his retirement in 1966. Moll s 1935 collection of poems, Blue Interval, consists of rhymed quatrains that are related to the history and physical aspects of Crater Lake, where he worked for two summers as a ranger-guide. His sonnet sequence Briseis looks at the battle of Troy from the point of view of a main female character. Australian writer Frank Dalby Davison noted that Moll s work has "a scriptural simplicity of statement, with great richness of connotation." Moll s work as a poet drew the attention of several anthologists of twentieth-century Oregon literary work. The 1942 edition of Northwest Books, for example, noted that Blue Interval described "the blue lake and rugged mountains, the eroded slopes and stalwart hemlocks, the days light and nights mystery as timeless objects untouched by man s mortality." From Here We Speak: An Anthology of Oregon Poetry (1993), edited by Primus St. John and Ingrid Wendt, included Moll as a significant Oregon poet and reprinted his poem "Sheep-killer." In addition to writing poetry, he published a guide to the form, The Appreciation of Poetry, in 1933. In 2024, Oregon Review Books published TransPacific: Collected Poems of Ernest G. Moll. The publication includes reprints of all of Moll's poetry collections including a few previously uncollected poems. Karl Jacob Belser (1902-1972) was a Professor of Architectural Engineering at VPI from 1929 through 1941.
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