THE SHADOW ON THE DIAL and Other Essays
by Bierce, Ambrose
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- first
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Yarmouth, Maine, United States
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About This Item
1909. San Francisco: A.M. Robertson, 1909. Original brown cloth decorated in black, with dust jacket.
First Edition. Per the author's note, "It was expected that this book would be included in my 'Collected works' now in course of publication, but unforeseen delay in the date of publication has made this impossible." This copy is in brown buckram (others are in green, no priority). It is a fine, bright copy (the usual offset darkening of the endpapers) of this handsomely printed and bound book; its leaves remain unopoened, in fact. Included is the 1909 dust jacket, remarkably whole and clean, though there is one closed tear on the rear panel. Blanck 1127.
First Edition. Per the author's note, "It was expected that this book would be included in my 'Collected works' now in course of publication, but unforeseen delay in the date of publication has made this impossible." This copy is in brown buckram (others are in green, no priority). It is a fine, bright copy (the usual offset darkening of the endpapers) of this handsomely printed and bound book; its leaves remain unopoened, in fact. Included is the 1909 dust jacket, remarkably whole and clean, though there is one closed tear on the rear panel. Blanck 1127.
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- Bookseller
- Sumner & Stillman (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 14570
- Title
- THE SHADOW ON THE DIAL and Other Essays
- Author
- Bierce, Ambrose
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Date Published
- 1909
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- Nonfiction;
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Sumner & Stillman
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About Sumner & Stillman
Founded in 1980, Sumner & Stillman is a small family business providing personal service in the buying and selling of literary first editions of the 19th and early 20th Centuries. Member of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America (ABAA) for over 30 years.
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