The Poetry Library of Marie Bullock - Locus Solus Rare Books

383. HECKEL, PEARL BASH. Candles in the Sun. Portland, Maine: Falmouth Publishing
House, 1947. First edition. 8vo, cloth. Fine in a lightly sunned dust jacket, edges a bit
rubbed, one tape-mended tear. Inscribed by Heckel to Mrs. Bullock. $30
ONE OF TEN ON JAPAN VELLUM
384. HENLEY, WILLIAM ERNEST. Hawthorn and Lavender. With Other Verses. London:
David Nutt, 1901. First edition. 8vo, original stiff parchment wrappers, stamped in gilt.
Spine and upper portions of wrappers sunned, a bit of wear to yap edges, else fine. One of
ten numbered copies on Japan Vellum in the severely limited issue. With a nice autograph
letter signed by Henley tipped to the front flyleaf concerning Edgar Allan Poe. $1,500
385. HENNIKER-HEATON, PETER. Jubilee and Other Poems. (Boston: E.D. Abbott Company),
n.d. First edition. 8vo, cloth. Fine in original glassine wrapper, worn. $20
386. HERFORD, OLIVER. Artful Anticks. New York: The Century Co., 1901. Later printing.
8vo, illustrated cloth. Fine in a delicate pictorial dust jacket, sunned on spine and edges and
with a small tape mend to the top of the spine. This copy has been inscribed and initialed by
Herford on the half title page, with a small drawing of a dog. $175
POET’S MANUSCRIPT
387. HILLYER, ROBERT. Manuscript notebook. (Paris, 1919). 8vo composition book, 68pp,
clothbound. Shaken, spine worn, last leaf (blank) torn. The poet’s notebook, filled with
poetry during a European sojourn. A title page has been fashioned boldly by hand in pencil
reading: “Robert Hillyer Paris 15 Mars MCMXIX.” The poems within, written in ink and
some with autograph corrections, are dated 1918 and 1919. In a somewhat later hand, Hillyer
has noted on the title page: “”Poems for The Five Books of Youth and unpublished poems.”
One page contains small sketches of houses. A significant notebook of early work by Hillyer.
Acknowledged as a major poet at mid-century – his Collected Verse was the 1934 Pulitzer
Prize-winner – Hillyer occupied a prominent position in American letters for many years and
served as an Academy chancellor from 1949 to 1961. Owing in part to changing cultural
tastes and in part, perhaps not unrelately, to his leading role in the opposition to Ezra
Pound’s receipt of the Bollingen Prize in 1949, Hillyer’s reputation endured a long and steep
decline. $2,250
388. HILLYER, ROBERT. The Five Books of Youth. New York: Brentano’s, (1920). First
edition. 8vo, pale blue boards. A hint of toning toward edges, fine in a lightly spinedarkened,
lightly rubbed dust jacket. The poet’s second book. $75
389. HILLYER, ROBERT. Manuscript Notebook. (London, 1920). 8vo composition book, 292
pp, clothbound A bit shaken, covers rubbed. Working notebook, virtually filled with poems
and drafts of poems in pencil and ink, most texts being quite heavily re-worked. A
handwritten title page reads: “Robert Hillyer, London, 7 September/20, Queen Elizabeth’s
Birthday. A year ago today was conceived “Alchemy”, though the writing of it was not then
begun.” The reference is to Hillyer’s book Alchemy, published in 1920. On a loosely inserted
index card, Hillyer has identified the contents of this notebook: “Hills Give Promise, about
half, Several Unpublished poems, prelim skethces for Carmus, Sketches for the Egypt. Hymn
to the Sun, Translations from the Danish, Sept 1920-Summer 1921.” A major working
manuscript for one the poet’s more significant early books. $3,500
390. HILLYER, ROBERT. Alchemy. With Decorations by Beatrice Stevens. New York:
Brentano’s, (1920). First edition. Large 8vo, boards. Slight soil, a bit rubbed, fine. $30
391. HILLYER, ROBERT. The Hills Give Promise: A Volume of Lyrics, Together With
Carmus: A Symphonic Poem. With Five Drawings by Beatrice Stevens. Boston: J. Brimmer
Company, 1923. 8vo, ca. 160pp, loose Paper browned and brittle, several pages chipped and
torn. The poet’s corrected galley proofs, extensively corrected by Hillyer in pencil. The
corrections tend toward the typographic, begging for clarity and crispness, although there are
also a number of small textual corrections. This set of galleys does not contain any of the
illustrations. The title page for the published book was entirely redesigned and the sequence
of poems re-ordered. Quite fragile. $750