Howes silas orrin ed (1 Ergebnisse)

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.…