Robert E. Howard — A Gent from Bear Creek

Rhode Island , Donald M. Grant , 1975. Cloth. The excellent first illustrated edition of this Western short-story collection by Robert E. Howard. The first illustrated edition, with drawings by Tim Kirk. With the publisher's original unclipped dust wrapper.A collection of Western short stories by American pulp fiction author Robert E. Howard. Humorously told as if by Howard's fictional hillbilly Breckinridge Elkins, who tells of his numerous fights in the Humboldts in Nevada. Howard is also best known for creating the character Conan the Barbarian, and is regarded as the father of the sword and sorcery subgenre.  In the original cloth binding. With the original unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, excellent, with minor bumping to the spine head and tail. Dust wrapper is also excellent, with minor edge wear. Internally, firmly bound. With minor tape marks to the endpapers, otherwise pages are bright and clean. Fine . Ill.: Tim Kirk. Fine/Fine.