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Bierce, Shapes of Clay with letter
Bierce, Shapes of Clay with letter
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Author: Bierce, Ambrose
Title: Shapes of Clay
Place Published: San Francisco
Publisher:W.E. Wood, publisher
Date Published: 1903
Description:


xiv, [2], 396 pp. Frontispiece portrait from photograph with facsimile Bierce autograph, tissue-guard. 17.3x12.5 cm (7½x5"), original gilt-decorated pictorial green & purple cloth, lettered in gilt, top edge gilt. First Edition, second issue.



With autograph letter from Ambrose Bierce affixed to front pastedown, signed A.G.B., to "Dear Haxton" (H.R. Haxton, apparently), dated Angwin, Jan. 4, 1892, presenting an earlier book ("This book is not published, it awaits the London edition... so don't 'give it away'..."). The paper on which the letter is written is a bit darkened, creased. Second issue with lines 5-6 on p. 71 corrected, now reading: "Walk in. But I must tell you this:/ "We've nothing better here than bliss." BAL 1122. With bookplate of Aurelia Henry Reinhardt (1877-1948), American educator, activist, and longtime president of Mills College.

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Slight rubbing at spine ends and corners, a near fine, bright copy.
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Bierce, Shapes of Clay with letter

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