grile dod pseudonym (6 Ergebnisse)

Half-Leather. Zustand: Good. Undated, The British Library date this book to 1876, two books bound in one leather bound volume. The First book is a book of American Jokes; this runs to 164 pages illustrated with line drawings. It is known that Dod Grile (the pseudonym of Ambrose Bierce) had several jokes and pieces of humor published in Awful Crammers: A New American Joke Book, The second book also by the same author also has American interest, this runs to 230 pages. The American Joke Book is particularly scare. The book is bound in an old half leather binding with marbled paper covered boards, and measures around 6.5 inches tall approx. CONDITION The book has general edge wear rubbing, some surface wear to the marbled paper else the binding is in good solid condition. internally there are several crossed out old ownership names to the front endpapers, and one to the title page. There is heavy foxing and browning to a few pages, but most of the pages are free of foxing, there is corner creasing to a few pages, one page stands slightly proud of the text block but it is firmly attached.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. Paperback - clean, clean cover, no marks - from private collection - no date but obviously from 1870's / 1880's - book intact & clean, in clean slipcase, one leaf of slipcase is detached.

Soft Cover. First Edition. First thus, in original wraps. Starrett (3) asserts that this book was published in 1873, preceding the George Routledge 1874 publication of Cobwebs from an Empty Skull. Joshi and Schultz (A3.b) assert a publication date of 1884, making it a reissue, although the material is slightly different than the 1874 edition. "Stringing a Bear" is original to this edition. This copy is good only, and in three pieces. The front cover through page 16 are detached from the main page block, and the page block is split the length of the spine at page 128/129. The spine printing is still mostly there and the entire book appears to be in one piece until it is handled. A scarce item in the Bierce canon.

First Edition, preceding the US edition. Illustrated title page. 12mo. Purple cloth with gilt demon on front board and spine. 197. Upper hinge just very slightly shaken, and some light wear to the binding, including a small light coloured spot on the front cover, but a tight and bright copy of Bierce's first book. The 32 page publisher's catalogue at rear, with one inch torn off the upper corner of the last leaf.  London, John Camden Hotten. The first collection of Bierce's writings to appear in book form, published during the author's stay in England (1872-75). The stories, aphorisms (or 'laughorisms'), invented reports and poems are of a particularly morbid and grotesque nature, and are often only saved from complete misanthropy by wit and ironic insight. These last two qualities point towards the talent and reluctant compassion that would manifest themselves in Bierce's later, best-known stories, such as An Occurance at Owl Creek Bridge.  Rare.

Hard Cover. First Edition. First edition (preceding the US edition) of the author's first book, very good lacking a dust jacket. Dark maroon cloth, with gilt demon on front board and near bottom of spine. There is some loss of the cloth at the top of the spine (about 1/4"), and slight fraying at the bottom of the spine. The front endpaper is detached but laid in. The rear hinge is a little loose. With the bookplate (on front pastedown) and signature (on half title page) of Vincent Starrett, Bierce's biographer and bibliographer. A nice association copy, in all probability the copy Starrett was looking at when he compiled the first bibliography of Bierce's works, which was published in 1920.

Hard Cover. First Edition. First US edition of the author's first book (preceded by the UK edition), very good lacking a dust jacket. Dark maroon cloth, with gilt demon on front board and near bottom of spine. The gilt is rubbed on the spine, but the outline of the demon is still visible. The illustration on the front board is brighter, but still has some rubbing. Some wear and slight fraying at spine ends and edges. Hinges are tight and solid, no names or writing of any kind. A nice copy of a scarce book.