Title: Shapes of Clay Author: Bierce, Ambrose Place: San Francisco Publisher: W.E. Wood Date: 1903 Description: xiv, [2], 396 pp. Frontispiece portrait from photograph with facsimile Bierce autograph, tissue-guard. 17.3x12.5 cm (7½x5"), original gilt-decorated pictorial green & purple cloth, lettered in gilt, top edge gilt. First Edition, First issue. Publisher's presentation copy, inscribed "J.R. Coughlan, with compliments of the publisher, W.E. Wood, 10-15-03." A very early presentation - BAL notes "A copy at the NYPL inscribed Oct. 13, 1903. Listed PW Oct. 24, 1903. Deposited Oct. 26, 1903." The book is the first issue with lines 5-6 on p. 71 garbled and reads: "We've nothing better here than bliss./ Walk in. But I must tell you this:/". BAL 1122. Lot Amendments Condition: Light shelf wear, very good to near fine. Item number: 258129
Title: Shapes of Clay Author: Bierce, Ambrose Place: San Francisco Publisher: W.E. Wood Date: 1903 Description: xiv, [2], 396 pp. Frontispiece portrait from photograph with facsimile Bierce autograph, tissue-guard. 17.3x12.5 cm (7½x5"), original gilt-decorated pictorial green & purple cloth, lettered in gilt, top edge gilt. First Edition, First issue. Publisher's presentation copy, inscribed "J.R. Coughlan, with compliments of the publisher, W.E. Wood, 10-15-03." A very early presentation - BAL notes "A copy at the NYPL inscribed Oct. 13, 1903. Listed PW Oct. 24, 1903. Deposited Oct. 26, 1903." The book is the first issue with lines 5-6 on p. 71 garbled and reads: "We've nothing better here than bliss./ Walk in. But I must tell you this:/". BAL 1122. Lot Amendments Condition: Light shelf wear, very good to near fine. Item number: 258129
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