AMBROSE BIERCE (1842-1914?)

THE FIEND’S DELIGHT. By Dod Grile (pseudonym). London (1872). Vignette

on title page. Red-brown pictorial cloth. American edition, 1873,

had no publisher’s advertisements at back.

NUGGETS AND DUST. By Dod Grile (pseudonym). London (1872) First edition

of author’s first book. Original yellow pictorial wrappers. Should

have half-title, with two pages of advertisements preceding the

half-title, and ten pages of advertisements at the end.

THE DANCE OF DEATH. By William Herman (pseudonym). San Francisco (1877)

First state has on its title page, in addition to title and

author, the words “Author’s copy”. Has no press notices at back of

book. Second state has imprint of Henry Keller & Co., 543 Clay

St., 1877. THE DANCE OF LIFE by Mrs. Dr. J. Milton Bowers, and

purporting to be an answer, is sometimes considered as a companion

piece.

TALES OF SOLDIERS AND CIVILIANS. Issued in green cloth and probably also

other colors. White end-papers. E. L. G. Steele, San Francisco,

1891.

BLACK BEETLES IN AMBER. Has imprint of Western Authors Publishing Co.

Cloth and wrappers. San Francisco and New York, 1892.

(_To be continued_)

General Stock of Americana, sea books, local New London, and Conn.

material, first editions, prints, autographs, etc.

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CITY BOOK AUCTION. Sales of Books, Autographs, etc., held every Saturday

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