Bierce Thurber (7 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing # P64 of this collection of short stories. All the stories were published earlier in various magazines and collections. Featured are Blood Money by David Karp, Taste by Ronald Dahl, Everything Is Wild by James Thurber, The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell, The Wager by Anton Chekhov, translated by A.E. Chamot, Two Days Wasted in Kanas City by William Saroyan, Swindler's Luck by Ben Hecht, Katz by Nelson Algren, A Piece of the Pie by Damon Runyon, Elementals by Stephen Vincent Benet, The Rocking-Horse Winner by D.H. Lawrence, The Resourceful Miss Railey by Irvin S. Cobb, A Watcher by the Dead by Ambrose Bierce, A Fowl Disaster by John Taintor Foote, Gambler's Luck by Albert Richard Wetjen. Slight spine slant. Light edge wear. Light age toning to the pages. In good condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. The pages are not loose, but the threads can be seen.

No edition/printing statement provided. 511 pages. Hardcover: H 19cm x L 21.75cm. Dust jacket with large losses to front panel and spine ends; other lesser chips, jagged tears, and creasing; some toning to flaps; front flap's bottom corner is clipped; dj presented in a mylar Brodart protector. Paper boards; small losses to spine ends with heel also bumped; glue repairs to surface paper tearing along front and rear joints; slender wear to boards' top and bottom edges. Text block edges toned with several stains. Personal bookplates of two different owners on front endpapers; toning to pages 100-101 from removed newspaper clipping; paper clip impressions at tops of pages 362-363, 404-405, and 428-429. Binding is firm. Page 511 notes that the publishers of the Looking Glass Library are Jason Epstein, Clelia Carroll, and Edward Gorey with consulting editors being W.H. Auden, Phyllis McGinley, and Edmund Wilson. Book's spine heel notes "LGL | 14" with page 511 listing fifteen books in the series (but citing "The Looking Glass Book of Stories" as twelfth sequentially) which may or may not be an issue point although it seems unlikely that the book would have enjoyed more than one printing. Edward Gorey (Edward St. John Gorey, 1925-2000) is credited as the illustrator of the dust jacket and boards (which share a matching design) as well as the title page and the four section titles on pages 9, 61, 255, and 403. An anthology of short stories compiled by Yale graduate and Phillips Andover Academy English instructor Hart Day Leavitt (1909-2008) which features thirty-three contributions by James Thurber, John Collier, Robert M. Coates, William Carlos Williams, E.B. White [Elwyn Brooks White], Saki [H.H. Munro - Hector Hugh Munro], Oscar Wilde, Stephen Vincent Benet, Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens], Frank R. Stockton, Fitz-James O'Brien, Edgar Allan Poe, Ambrose Bierce, Anton Chekov, Conrad Aiken, Robert Louis Stevenson, H.G. Wells [Herbert George Wells], Shirley Jackson, Frank O'Connor, et al.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. 1st Edition. Navy cloth boards, title faded on front panel and leatherette spine cloth a bit brittle. Bookplate inside front board. Author Lisle Cottrell signed front endpaper. A Bierce and Cottrell family genealogy with allied surnames Anthony, Avery, Barker, Brown, Burdick, Clark, Dennison, Hall, Miner, Palmer, Peckham, Stanton, Stetson, many more. Index. ; MCN25025; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 291 pp; Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Octavo. vi, 291 pages. Illustrated with black and white photograph frontispiece. Blue hardcover with green title on the front cover and spine. Previous owner inscription on the front paste down. Scuffed spot lower spine. Glue residue on the title page at gutter. Missing the right front flyleaf. Title page chipped in the upper right corner. Occasional light pencil notes in the margins. Fair.

Hardcover. Condition: Gut. kA (illustrator). 2. Auflage. Anzahl Bände: 1 - Bd.Nr.: 2 - Sprache: de - Einband: Hardcover - Gewicht: 840 - Illust.: kA - Zustand: Gut - leichte Lager- und Gebrauchsspuren.

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1962 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Pages: 314 NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 314.