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Sale 495: Fine Literature - Illustrated & Children's Books - Books in All Fields (#495) 12/13/2012 11:00 AM PST Closed
Starts Ending 12/13/2012 11:00 AM PST

Lot #5 Shapes of Clay

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Lot closed - Sold For (Includes Buyers Premium):$593.75

Estimate: $500 - $800

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Description

Title:

Shapes of Clay

Author:

Bierce, Ambrose

Place Published:

San Francisco

Publisher:

W.E. Wood

Date Published:

1903

Description:

xiv, [2], 396 pp. Frontispiece portrait from photograph with facsimile Bierce autograph, tissue-guard. 7½x5, original gilt-decorated pictorial green & purple cloth, lettered in gilt, top edge gilt. First Edition, First issue.

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. With ink ownership signature of F. W. Henslaw(?), Oct. '03, to front free endpaper, along with bookplate of Elinor Tay Mighell.

Condition:

A touch of wear to extremities, leaning a trifle; near fine to fine, bright copy.

Item#:

232367

Headline:

Ambrose Bierce Shapes of Clay
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