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Ambrose Bierce Fantastic Fables

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Ltd Ed AMBROSE BIERCE The Devils Dictionary: Limited edition copy of The Devils Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce. Hardbound in leather with gilt decoration. Drawings by Elaine Raphael and Don Bolognese. Published by The Franklin Library, 1980. In go

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1980 Ambrose Bierce "Devils Dictionary" Franklin Library: 1980 Ambrose Bierce "Devils Dictionary" Franklin Library: Embossed on title page

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The Folio Society 2003 The Devilâ€™s Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce: Illustrated by Peter Forster

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BIERCE, Ambrose (1842- c. 1914). Shapes of Clay. San Franci...: BIERCE, Ambrose (1842- c. 1914). Shapes of Clay. San Francisco: W.E. Wood, 1903. 8vo. Frontispiece portrait of Bierce. Original dark green pictorial cloth stamped in gilt and purple, top edge gilt, ot

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Description

Heading:
Author: Bierce, Ambrose
Title: Fantastic Fables
Place Published: New York
Publisher:G.P. Putnam's Sons
Date Published: 1899
Description:

[2],xi, [1], 194 + [4] adpp. (8vo) original tan cloth pictorially stamped and lettered in black red, blue, and gilt. First Edition, First Printing.

First editionof these fables and brief sketches by the American master of dry wit. This is BAL's first printing, with advertisements at rear beginning "By Anna Fuller." The elaborately decorated cover, with a king and a cat regarding one another on the front cover and a crimson candle (from the second anecdote) on the backstrip, is striking. BAL 1120. Starrett 16. Wright, III: 522. Formerly in the SkidomphaFree Library, Damariscotta, Maine, with bookplate on front pastedown, small rubberstampsto endpapers and title page, trace from removal of pocket from rear endpapers.

Condition

Some shelf wear, spine dull and possibly retouched; very good.

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Ambrose Bierce Fantastic Fables

Name: Ambrose Bierce Fantastic Fables
SKU: 50334297
Price: 100 USD
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