Jun 20, 2013 - Sale 2319

Sale 2319 - Lot 9

Unsold
Estimate: $ 1,200 - $ 1,800
FIRST BOOK [BIERCE, AMBROSE.] The Fiend's Delight. By Dod Grile. 12mo, brown cloth decoratively stamped in blind and gold, with gilt lettering and satyr figure on front cover and spine, top of spine with chip into gilt rule, front hinge cracked; original brown coated endpapers (front free endpaper loose); ownership inscription on half-title and pictorial bookplate of Vincent Starrett on front pastedown. London: John Camden Hotten, [1873]

Additional Details

first edition of bierce's first book, ex-collection vincent starrett, Bierce's first bibliographer, noted collector, and prolific writer best-known for his 1933 novel The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, with his signature. With 32 pages of advertisements inserted at end. This issue preceded the American edition. Starrett 1; BAL 1096.