Bierce ambrose ed (22 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: good, very good. First Printing. 258, pages a little browned. Introduction by William McCann. This powerful collection contains the very best of this world-renowned author's writings. All of the short stories and factual accounts of the Civil War presented here form a searing, unflinching portrait of this terrible war.…

Soft cover. Zustand: Fair-Good. No Jacket. None Stated. The Summer 1951 issue (v 1, # 2) of a digest from the early 1950s that covers a variety of genres - sci-fi, fantasy, mystery, crime, etc . Edited by Theodore Irwin. Cover art is uncredited. Stories includes "Operation Peep" by John Wyndham; "World Withon" by Thomas A. Coffee; "Blood Will Tell" by Nathaniel Weyl; "The Nightmare Face" by Walter Snow; "Elusive Witness" by Georges Simenon; "Survival" by Thomas Gilchrist; "Fatal Mistake" by John Basye Price; "Criminal at Large" by Larry Holden; "Pardon My Terror" by Irving Burstiner; "Evil Is the Night" by Edith Saylor Abbot; "Black Death" by John Krill; "Maiden Beware" by Richard Lewis; "A Horseman in the Sky" by Ambrose Bierce; "Penny Wise, Fate Foolish" by Mary Elizabeth Counselman; "The Perfectly Calm Murder" (novelette) by F. Hugh Herbert. Light edge wear. .25" loss at the top left corner of the front cover and down the spine. Another .5" chip/gouge on the spine about 2.25" up from the tail. Soiling to the fore edge of the rear cover with loss at the edges down the bottom half. Folded corner to the top left of the rear cover. The internals are good with light toning to the pages. An acceptable copy. …

Zustand: Very Good.

Zustand: good. May show signs of wear, highlighting, writing, and previous use. This item may be a former library book with typical markings. No guarantee on products that contain supplements Your satisfaction is 100% guaranteed. Twenty-five year bookseller with shipments to over fifty million happy customers.…

Zustand: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Zustand: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Zustand: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Zustand: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine. First Edition Thus. An uncommonly nice-looking and sturdy, attractive copy of this important volume, another fine addition to the The Heritage Press stable of fine literature. A tightly bound, clean and unmarked copy. Exceedingly sturdy, feels great in the hand, bound in blue paper over boards with cameo of a standing soldier, dark gray cloth-backed, with gilt lettering. Illustrated throughout by Paul Landacre's woodcuts in black-and-white. Housed in publisher's original cardboard slipcase in Near Fine condition. This edition was published by The Heritage Press in 1943, based on the Limited Editions Club text. Sandglass brochure laid in, also fine.Member, I.O.B.A., C.B.A., and adherent to the highest ethical standards. Additional postage may be required for oversize or especially heavy volumes, and for sets.…

Ex-library. 8vo hardcover (VG-) in d/w (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.…

Zustand: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Super octavo softcover (VG); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.…

Zustand: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs.…

Zustand: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Zustand: leido. 1ª ed. Rustica con solapas. 300.

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. 1st Edition. Price-clipped, age-toned dustjacket, unmarked, 237pp, NF/VG. Book.

Soft Cover. Zustand: Good. 16mo, br. ed. 326pp. An incomparable satirist, Ambrose Bierce became the "laughing devil" of the San Francisco news media, for he was about as discreet as a runaway locomotive, according to H.L.Mencken, and nowhere are his uninhibited irony and gift for verse parody more in evidence than in this "dictionary". An incomparable satirist, the author became the "laughing devil" of the San Francisco news media, for he was about as discreet as a runaway locomotive, according to H L Mencken. This dictionary presents his uninhibited irony and gift for verse parody.…

Zustand: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Softcover. Zustand: Very Good. 5 incisions with a few nicks to spine from prior binding with other issues; streak of offset tanning front cover righ margin; offset tanning to pages from double page lithograph on reverse sides. Pagination out of whack because printers were drinking bad whiskey. ; Color litho illustrated paper covers. With articles and advertisements; Bierce's column, Prattle; front, and back cover (Andrew Jackson's Spirit Among the Old Democratic War Horses) lithographs by George Frederick Keller; double page lithograph "A Moving Scene" regarding the Pacific Stock Exchange by Keller. ; Folio 13" - 23" tall; 15 pages; "A weekly journal of social commentary and vitriolic color cartoons. Its greatest period was under the editorship of Ambrose Bierce (1881-86) , who wrote much of the text and lashed out at political corruption, particularly in local government or related to the Big Four; at revolutionary social views, including those of organized labor and of Denis Kearney; and at Chinese immigration" (Hart, Companion to California). …

Softcover. Zustand: Very Good+. 5 incisions to spine from prior binding with other issues, a few nicks to top edges of cover, otherwise clean. ; Color litho paper covers. With articles and advertisements; Bierce's column, Prattle; front and back cover (The Oakland Juggernaut) lithographs by George Frederick Keller; double page lithograph "The Bonanza Veterans" regarding Wall Street by Henry Barkhaus. The August 1885 issue is missing some pages, but has an 'extra' front cover featuring many advertisers front, back and inside covers. Also includes the column Prattle by Bierce, and actual front cover lithograph by by Walter Kuhn, as well as one other full page lithograph. Overall loose & tattered at edges with some soil. ; Folio 13" - 23" tall; 15 pages; "A weekly journal of social commentary and vitriolic color cartoons. Its greatest period was under the editorship of Ambrose Bierce (1881-86) , who wrote much of the text and lashed out at political corruption, particularly in local government or related to the Big Four; at revolutionary social views, including those of organized labor and of Denis Kearney; and at Chinese immigration" (Hart, Companion to California).…

First edition in book form, first printing, of this collection of papers from the author of The Devil's Dictionary (1911). Written around the turn of the twentieth century for a variety of journals, these essays are captivating documents of American social history, covering pressing issues such as the emancipation of women, the death penalty, and the advance of socialism. "Having seen the portentous effigy that we are making of the Liberty our fathers created, [Bierce] has written of it in English that is the despair of those who, thinking less clearly, escape not the pitfalls of diffuseness and obscurity" (p. ix). Octavo. Title page printed in red and black with woodcut vignette and border. Original brown cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt, black dial illustration to front cover, fore and bottom edges untrimmed, leaves unopened. Ticket of Seven Arts, Carmel to rear pastedown. A little rubbing to extremities, browning and foxing to endpapers, light stain to front free endpaper, contents unaffected and bright. A very good copy indeed, in very good dust jacket, unclipped, slight chipping and nicking to extremities, a couple of faint stains and marks, still a very nice example.…