Author: Bierce, Ambrose
Lot of 4 titles by Ambrose Bierce
Comprises: Black Beetles in Amber. Frontispiece. Original wrappers bound in period olive green cloth with paper spine label. Inked owner's signature dated 1901 on front free endpaper. Related newspaper article, laid in. Western Authors Pub. Co., 1892. * A Son of the Gods and a Horseman in the Sky. ¼ & blue boards, lettered in gilt, jacket (tape repair on verso). Light foxing. 1 of 1000. Paul Elder, [1907]. * The Shadow on the Dial and other Essays. Bookplate of Louis Samuel & Stuart Library (Univ. of the Pacific, Stockton). Robertson, 1909. * Write it Right: A Little Blacklist of Literary Faults. 3rd Ed. (Spine sunned; small ink stains on rear blank leaves). Neale, 1910. Together, 4 volumes. 16mo to 8vo. Mostly cloth.
Date Published:1892-1910
Lot of 4 titles by Ambrose Bierce
Comprises: Black Beetles in Amber. Frontispiece. Original wrappers bound in period olive green cloth with paper spine label. Inked owner's signature dated 1901 on front free endpaper. Related newspaper article, laid in. Western Authors Pub. Co., 1892. * A Son of the Gods and a Horseman in the Sky. ¼ & blue boards, lettered in gilt, jacket (tape repair on verso). Light foxing. 1 of 1000. Paul Elder, [1907]. * The Shadow on the Dial and other Essays. Bookplate of Louis Samuel & Stuart Library (Univ. of the Pacific, Stockton). Robertson, 1909. * Write it Right: A Little Blacklist of Literary Faults. 3rd Ed. (Spine sunned; small ink stains on rear blank leaves). Neale, 1910. Together, 4 volumes. 16mo to 8vo. Mostly cloth.
Date Published:1892-1910
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General wear overall, rubbing, shelf wear, 2 with bookseller's small label, etc.; mostly very good.
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Fine Modern Literature
1:00 PM PT - May 24th, 2007
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