TREECE, HENRY — Men of the Hills

New York, NY: Criterion Books, 1958. 1st American Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. Illustrated by Christine Price. B&W Illustrations; This book is in Very Good+ condition and has a Very Good- dust jacket. The book and its contents are in mostly clean, bright condition. There is some beginning bumping to the spine ends of the book covers. The text pages are clean and bright. There are several spots of foxing to the front endpaper. The dust jacket has several smallish edge tears, some ground-in dirt and spotting to the rear cover and a middling sized chip to the top spine end of the dust jacket. "Henry Treece had an impressive career as teacher, historian, actor, editor and author. His published work included critical essays, poems and a fictional cycle of prehistoric Britain. An English poet and historical novelist whose ability to bring the ancient world to life in fiction makes his work especially appealing to young readers. As a poet he - together with J. F. Hendry - was a founder of the New Apocalypse movement, a reaction against the politically oriented, machine-age literature and realist poetry of the 1930s. Treece was educated at Birmingham University. He became a schoolteacher, and later he served as intelligence officer in the Bomber Command during World War II." (from FantasticFiction). Very Good+ in Very Good- dust jacket .