Ambrose Bierce: The Wickedest Man in San Francisco by Walker, Franklin - 1941

Colorado Springs: Privately Printed, 1945. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 8vo. Pp. 136. Illustrated with several b&w reproductions of paintings of Alaskan scenery; b&w photos. Green cloth with gilt lettering on front cover. Printed at the Caxton Printers in Caldwell, Idaho. Gilt from spine is worn away. Lacking the ffep. Despite detracting qualities, book is solid and presentable. First person account of hardship and historic notes from a woman who began life in Chicago and, after years in Alaska, retired to Seattle. According to the Alaska Bib., contents were reprinted as "A Pioneer Woman in Alaska" in 1948, with slight changes to chapters five and six, and an additional plate added. ARCTIC BIBLIOGRAPHY, 14804 (passim); RICKS, p. 186; SMITH, 8761;.

No Place: The Colt Press, 1941. First Edition. Decorative Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo. 46 pp., illus. One fold-out which is a tipped-in facsimile of The Wasp". One of 550 copies issued by the Colt Press by William Roth and Jane Grabhorn. Boards are rubbed and faded along the edges.

San Francisco: Colt Press, 1941. Hardcover. Very Good. [4], 45, [1] p., 1 folded facsimile of The Wasp; 25 cm. Red cloth spine with printed paper spine label. Patterned blue paper over boards. One of a limited edition of 550 copies isued from the Colt Press by William Roth and Jane Grabhorn in Feb. 1941. Printed in red and black with portrait of Ambrose Bierce on title page. Engraved bookplate of George Reed Salisbury on front fixed endpaper. In Very Good Condition: sunned along fore-edges of boards; slightly rubbed; spine label is intact; internally clean and crisp.