FIRST BOOK
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[BIERCE, AMBROSE.]
The Fiend’s Delight.
By Dod Grile. 12mo, brown cloth
decoratively stamped in blind and gold, with gilt lettering and satyr figure on front cover
and spine, top of spine with chip into gilt rule, front hinge cracked; original brown coated
endpapers (front free endpaper loose); ownership inscription on half-title and pictorial
bookplate ofVincent Starrett on front pastedown.
London: John Camden Hotten, [1873]
[1,200/1,800]
FIRST EDITION OF BIERCE
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COLLECTION VINCENT STARRETT
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Bierce’s
first bibliographer, noted collector, and prolific writer best-known for his 1933 novel The Private
Life of Sherlock Holmes, with his signature.With 32 pages of advertisements inserted at end.
This issue preceded the American edition. Starrett 1; BAL 1096.
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Nuggets and Dust Panned Out in California.
By
Dod Grile. Small 8vo, original pictorial wrappers, lower front cover crease, small dampstain
and discolorations, few nicks at backstrip extremities; bookplate tipped to verso of front
wrapper, ownership signature on upper margin of half-title; cloth chemise within slipcase
with morocco lettering label.
London: Chatto &Windus, [1873]
[800/1,200]
FIRST EDITION
,
intermediate printing. Advertisements correspond to Blanck’s state b, but with
10 page Special List for 1873. Blanck calls for the mispagination of 2 pages - 8 for 58; 166
for 169.This copy mispaged 166 for 169, but page 58 is not numbered at all. BAL 1099.
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