Robert Hillyer Intro (5 results)

Hard Cover. Condition: vg+. Dust Jacket Condition: good. Kahlil Gibran (illustrator). 56 parables, stories, & poems; 13th ptg.; xxi + 196 pages; few b/w plates; black cover with circular gilt decoraion on front, gilt lettering on spine; blind-stamped lettering on front; monochrome drawing on dust jacket, which is discolored with chips & tears along edges. Hardcover (dj).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Black cloth, lettered in gilt. Text block edges a bit tanned by age, otherwise nearly as issued. Color dust jacket shows light rubbing to spine extremities, mild sunning along spine panel, now in mylar. 1962 ptg. xxii,172 pp. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. Cloth/dust jacket Octavo. navy cloth, gilt lettering, dust jacket, 182 pp, top edge stained, stain extending to top of last pages, affecting back flap of dj and back cloth Standard shipping (no tracking or insurance) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good Indeed. None (illustrator). First edition. A wonderful example of the scarce first edition of this collection of poems from Robert Silliman Hillyer, with an introduction from Arthur Machen. A scarce first edition.An early volume of poems from American poet and professor of English literature Robert Hillyer, who won a Pulitzer Prize for poetry in 1934.Poems include 'Alone', 'Never Fear', and 'Black Magic'.With an introduction from Arthur Machen, the writer best known for his influential supernatural, fantasy and horror fiction. In the publisher's original cloth backed paper covered boards. Externally, excellent, with a touch of shelf wear to back strip tail, and minor rubbing to board perimeters. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Very Good Indeed. book.