Grile (43 results)

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Condition: Very Good. Books for Libraries 1970 - Issued Without Dust Jacket Bruised at top and base of spine and page edges slightly foxed and lightly marked else Fine book Soldiers - A Horseman In the Sky; An Occurrence At Owl Creek Bridge; Chickamauga; A Son of the Gods; One of the Missing; Killed at Resaca; The Affaire at Coulter's Notch; A Tough Tussle; The Coup de Grace; Parker Addison. Civilians - A Watcher By the Dead; The Man and the Snake; A Holy Terror and 6 others. Set from the Steele 1891 First Edition. Book.

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Hardback. Condition: New. Casting the Art of Rhetoric with Theater and Drama: Taking Center Stage explores rhetoric and theater as they relate to one another, developing the understanding of rhetoric as theory and praxis. This book addresses rhetorical themes and cultural resonances, as well as the oft overlooked symbiosis of rhetoric and theater. Rather than addressing audiences as either observers of rhetorical artifacts or theatrical performance, this work demonstrates the intersection of the two, which strengthens theatrical events and their cultural significance. Overall, the volume showcases the many ways in which an understanding of the relationship between rhetorical and poetic theories can benefit dramatic convention and the breaking thereof.

Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 474 pages. 9.01x6.00x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Half-Leather. Condition: Good. Undated, The British Library date this book to 1876, two books bound in one leather bound volume. The First book is a book of American Jokes; this runs to 164 pages illustrated with line drawings. It is known that Dod Grile (the pseudonym of Ambrose Bierce) had several jokes and pieces of humor published in Awful Crammers: A New American Joke Book, The second book also by the same author also has American interest, this runs to 230 pages. The American Joke Book is particularly scare. The book is bound in an old half leather binding with marbled paper covered boards, and measures around 6.5 inches tall approx. CONDITION The book has general edge wear rubbing, some surface wear to the marbled paper else the binding is in good solid condition. internally there are several crossed out old ownership names to the front endpapers, and one to the title page. There is heavy foxing and browning to a few pages, but most of the pages are free of foxing, there is corner creasing to a few pages, one page stands slightly proud of the text block but it is firmly attached.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 60 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.14 inches. In Stock. This item is printed on demand.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 176 pages. 10.00x7.75x0.43 inches. This item is printed on demand.

Paperback. Condition: Good. Paperback - clean, clean cover, no marks - from private collection - no date but obviously from 1870's / 1880's - book intact & clean, in clean slipcase, one leaf of slipcase is detached.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 212 pages. 10.00x7.75x0.52 inches. This item is printed on demand.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 260 pages. 10.00x7.75x0.64 inches. This item is printed on demand.

Soft Cover. First Edition. First thus, in original wraps. Starrett (3) asserts that this book was published in 1873, preceding the George Routledge 1874 publication of Cobwebs from an Empty Skull. Joshi and Schultz (A3.b) assert a publication date of 1884, making it a reissue, although the material is slightly different than the 1874 edition. "Stringing a Bear" is original to this edition. This copy is good only, and in three pieces. The front cover through page 16 are detached from the main page block, and the page block is split the length of the spine at page 128/129. The spine printing is still mostly there and the entire book appears to be in one piece until it is handled. A scarce item in the Bierce canon.

First Edition. COBWEBS FROM AN EMPTY SKULL, Routledge, 1874, first edition, previous owners stamp placed on several pages rather faintly in the upper left corner, textual library bookplates on the paste-downs, else a good to vg copy in black and gold-gilt stamped pictorial binding. Actually a most decent copy of a most uncommon book.

pp. 197, (iii), 32 of adverts. 8vo. Original cloth, gilt decoration. Rear hinge very weak. Preserved in a solander box with morocco spine by Sangorski and Sutcliffe with COBWEBS FROM AN EMPTY SKULL. London. George Routledge & Sons. 1874. Illustrated with engravings by Dalziel Brothers. 8vo. Original blue illustrated cloth. Recased. Bierce's first and third book which he wrote while in England from 1872 to 1875 before returning to San Francisco. Each volume has the bookplate of Barry Humphries, bibliophile and creator of Dame Edna Everage.

First Edition. True first edition, preceding the U.S. [BAL 1096]. Bierce's first book, written while he was living and working in London, and for which he was never paid -- Hotten died before the post-dated check he'd given Bierce came due. 12mo gilt-stamped purple-brown cloth with gilt vignettes to front and spine; 197 pages plus Swift-quote leaf and publisher's 32-page catalog dated 1873. Small period bookseller tickets of A. H. Spencer in Melbourne to front pastedown and free endpaper verso. Very good to near fine with light rubbing to boards and expert repair to inner hinges.

First Edition, preceding the US edition. Illustrated title page. 12mo. Purple cloth with gilt demon on front board and spine. 197. Upper hinge just very slightly shaken, and some light wear to the binding, including a small light coloured spot on the front cover, but a tight and bright copy of Bierce's first book. The 32 page publisher's catalogue at rear, with one inch torn off the upper corner of the last leaf.  London, John Camden Hotten. The first collection of Bierce's writings to appear in book form, published during the author's stay in England (1872-75). The stories, aphorisms (or 'laughorisms'), invented reports and poems are of a particularly morbid and grotesque nature, and are often only saved from complete misanthropy by wit and ironic insight. These last two qualities point towards the talent and reluctant compassion that would manifest themselves in Bierce's later, best-known stories, such as An Occurance at Owl Creek Bridge.  Rare.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. no date [1873]. First edition of Bierce's first book, preceding the first American edition. 12mo plum pictorial cloth stamped in gilt and blind with the gilt devil on the front cover and spine. The title engraving shows a corpulent man roasting a baby over a spit. From the preface: "The atrocities constituting this 'cold collation' of diabolisms are taken mainly from various Californian journals. They are cast in the American language, and liberally enriched with unintelligibility. I have been assisted by my scholarly friend Mr. Satan. While the plan of the work is partly my own, its spirit is wholly his; and this illustrates the ascendancy of the creative over the merely imitative mind. I shall be content with the profit." Ironically, Bierce was never paid for this work. Spine tips worn but complete and sound with the very fragile endpapers (the front free endpaper frayed at the edges) and the 30-page list of ads at the rear. Covers rubbed but the gilt devils still prominent. A very good copy of this notoriously fragile book. Very scarce thus. 0.

First Edition. First edition. His third book. Dark fairy tales collected from his appearances in the British periodical "Fun"; illustrated with satirical wood engravings by the Dalziel Brothers. It should be noted although Starrett (4) contends an 1873 paperback precedes this hardcover, BAL (1100) proved the paperback was actually not published until 1884. Publisher's decorative green cloth stamped and lettered in gilt & black. BAL doesn't mention green but Starrett lists it as one of three cloth colors. Faded ownership notation on front endpaper, minor shelf wear, still very good to near fine.

Title page vignette, 7.25 x 5", gilt-pict (demon) cloth, 197pp + Swift quote page + Publ. catalogue (1873), covers a bit rubbed, extremities worn, spine sunned, hinges loose, inner hinges cracking, about 1/3 of last page of catalogue torn out else a decent copy of this VERY SCARCE item. FIRST EDITION (precedes the American edition) OF AMBROSE BIERCE'S FIRST BOOK.

Hard Cover. First Edition. First edition (preceding the US edition) of the author's first book, very good lacking a dust jacket. Dark maroon cloth, with gilt demon on front board and near bottom of spine. There is some loss of the cloth at the top of the spine (about 1/4"), and slight fraying at the bottom of the spine. The front endpaper is detached but laid in. The rear hinge is a little loose. With the bookplate (on front pastedown) and signature (on half title page) of Vincent Starrett, Bierce's biographer and bibliographer. A nice association copy, in all probability the copy Starrett was looking at when he compiled the first bibliography of Bierce's works, which was published in 1920.

Hard Cover. First Edition. First US edition of the author's first book (preceded by the UK edition), very good lacking a dust jacket. Dark maroon cloth, with gilt demon on front board and near bottom of spine. The gilt is rubbed on the spine, but the outline of the demon is still visible. The illustration on the front board is brighter, but still has some rubbing. Some wear and slight fraying at spine ends and edges. Hinges are tight and solid, no names or writing of any kind. A nice copy of a scarce book.

NEAR FINE. BAL 1097 / AUTHOR'S FIRST BOOK PROFESSIONALLY RESTORED WITH VERY NICELY REPLACED LIGHT BROWN COATED ENDPAPERS AS WITH ORIGINAL. A BEAUTIFUL CLEAN AND TIGHT COPY WITH THE "FIEND" GILT SPINE DECORATION A BIT FADED. FIRST EDITION.

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Paperback / softback. Condition: New. This item is printed on demand. New copy - Usually dispatched within 5-9 working days.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 360 pages. 10.00x7.75x0.89 inches. This item is printed on demand.