Ambrose Bierce, Signed (29 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. INSCRIBED by author on title page. Light edge wear, clean jacket in mylar protector. Faint stain at bottom of gutters for first few pages and last few pages. Small pen slashes on side page margins throughout volume. Inscribed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good+. First Thus. Previous owner's name on ffep. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition/1st Printing (complete number line). SIGNED by author on a bookplate on front end page (signature only). $22.95 price on DJ flap. Signed by Author.

Bierce, Ambrose, 1842-1914. The Monk and the Hangman's Daughter. Translated from the German of Richard Voss by Gustav Adolf Danziger and adapted by Ambrose Bierce. Introduction by Maurice Valency. Illustrations by Michel Ciry. New York: The Heritage Press, 1967, xiv, 80pp., good light brown cloth in slipcase, but spine slightly faded, edge of first few pages lightly bumped, light wear to slipcase. The publication is called "one of the most tangled episodes of his career. A young German-Jewish dentist, Gustav Adolph Danziger, had brought him a rough translation of a short novel by Richard Voss, Der Mönch von Berchtesgaden, which had appeared in a German monthly. Bierce rewrote the story from Danziger's translation, and the two signed a complicated contract dividing the rewards they expected to get. Their work appeared serially under the title The Monk and the Hangman's Daughter in the Examiner; then it was published by F. J. Schulte of Chicago, who went bankrupt. For years Danziger squabbled with Bierce over The Monk and the Hangman's Daughter" (M. E. Grenander). - In a 1931 article Frank Monaghan compared Bierce's version with that of Voss and found few differences. Bierce cannot qualify as the "author", he concluded.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. EXCELLENT - SIGNED by the Author on the Title page. Author's Signature only. A First edition, First printing, with the corresponding number line. Book is in Near Fine condition. Boards are clean, not bumped. Fore edges have a tiny bit of shelf wear. Interior is clean and legible. Not remaindered. Dust Jacket is in Near Fine condition. Not chipped or crinkled. Not price clipped. Dust Jacket is covered by Mylar Brodart. Thanks and Enjoy. Signed by Author(s). Book.

Condition: FINE. First printing. SIGNED on the title page. Hall's second mystery featuring figure Ambrose Bierce- William Randolph Hearst's star journalist and San Francisco's most celebrated writer - investigating the disappearance of a visiting Hawaiian Princess. Cover praise from Michael Chabon, among others, who states this "invites the reader into a puzzling, seductive and above all, pleasurable fictional realm. Hall has one of the finest prose styles around: tough, agile, but tinged with a sepia hint of gentlemanly elegance. perfectly suited to bringing to life the San Francisco of the 1890's, at once gilded and rough-hewn, brawling and refined." 276 pp. Fine in fine dust jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. Previous owner's name on ffep. Dust jacket in brodart. Inscribed by Author(s).

Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Signed by the author on the title page. weight: 0.8 lb. Fine in a fine dust jacket. 22.2x14 cm. 216 pp. Quarter bound black over yellow boards, gilt spine title.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First US edition, 1st prntg. lime-green boards, black quarter-cloth spine, clean & bright, no bumps, unclipped color illus dj, no creases or tears, exc unread, gift cond; no interior marks, author signed on the title pg, signature only, 276 pp. 6'x 9". sequel to 'Ambrose Bierce and the Queen of Spades'. Signed by Author(s).

hardcover. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: VG. 1st Edition. Signed 1st edition, 1st printing, University of California Press hardcover w/ DJ, 1998. Book is VG, w/ clean text, tight binding; lightly cocked spine. DJ is VG, w/ light edge/shelf wear (no tears or chips); "autographed copy" sticker on front panel. Signed by author on title page. Free delivery confirmation. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Black spine with gilt title and attributions - green boards. Light bump to front lower corner. Signed by author on title page. 276pp. Complete jacket has light wear at crown and heel. Octavo. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. First edition. First printing. Hardbound. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on half title page. He has signed his name only, without any other writing. NOT a tipped in copy. . Very fine/very fine in all respects. A pristine unread copy. Comes with mylar dust jacket protector. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. (New York): Viking, (2001). SIGNED by Hall to the half-title page. Fine in a very nearly fine dust jacket. The second Bierce historical mystery is set in San Francisco where King Kalakau and his entourage of Hawaiian royal courtiers are visiting. A missing Hawaiian princess adds to the swirl of political intrigue. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. SIGNED by the Author on the Title page. First edition, First printing With corresponding number line. Book is in Near Fine condition. Boards are clean, not bumped. Fore edges have a tiny bit of shelf wear. Interior is clean and legible. Not remaindered. Dust Jacket is in Near Fine condition. Not chipped or crinkled. Not price clipped. Is covered by Mylar Brodart. All-ways well boxed, All-ways fast service. Thanks. Signed by Author(s). Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Black spine with green title and attributions - green boards. Minimal indications of prior handling. Signed by author on title page and dated June 24, 2005. Complete jacket has lightest wear to perimeter. 182pp. Octavo. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Edition. Previous owner's name on ffep. Dust jacket in brodart. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hard Cover. First Edition. #527 of 950 copies on Antique Paper, of a total edition of 1000 copies. Very good+ lacking a dust jacket as issued, with paper label on front board. Blue paper covered boards are slightly darkened at edges and on spine. Minor wear at spine ends and tips. Signed by the editor on the limitation page. Signed by Editor.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. Julia Ewan (Author photograph) (illustrator). Presumed First Edition, First printing. [12], 306, [2] pages. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Inscribed by the author on the title page. Inscription reads For Sandy (a real historian) Dennis Drabelle Sept. 15, 2012. The notorious Central Pacific Railroad riveted the attention of two great American writers: Ambrose Bierce and Frank Norris. In The Great American Railroad War, Dennis Drabelle tells a classic story of corporate greed vs. the power of the pen. The Central Pacific Railroad accepted US Government loans; but, when the loans fell due, the last surviving founder of the railroad avoided repayment. Bierce, at the behest of his boss William Randolph Hearst, swung into action writing over sixty stinging articles that became a signal achievement in American journalism. Later, Norris focused the first volume of his trilogy, The Octopus, on the freight cars of a thinly disguised version of the Central Pacific. The Great American Railroad War is a lively chapter of US history pitting two of America's greatest writers against one of America's most powerful corporations. Dennis Drabelle was born and raised in St. Louis, where he graduated from St. Louis University. He earned a Master's in English and a law degree, both from the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. HE moved to Washington, D.C., where he became counsel to the assistant secretary of the interior with responsibility for the national parks. He had developed a passion for wilderness--both hiking in it and reflecting on its importance to the human spirit. I then work as a contributing editor of the Washington Post Book World from 1984-2015. Derived from a Kirkus review: A story of rapacious railroads and angry pens in the Gilded Age. On May 10, 1869, the rails of the Union and Central Pacific Railroads joined at Promontory Summit, in Utah Territory, creating the first transcontinental railroad. The Central Pacific Railroad soon became the object of public ire. Not only did it fail to bring longed-for prosperity, but the railroad charged unfair rates and suborned lawmakers and regulators; its major backers lacked the common touch and built offensively lavish mansions with their newfound wealth. Washington Post Book World contributing editor Drabelle offers a bright, anecdote-filled account of the rise of the railroad corporations, their corrupt business practices and how through journalism and fiction, two leading authorsâ"Ambrose Bierce and Frank Norrisâ"made the Central Pacific "a symbol of everything that ailed Gilded Age America." The complex business story involved surveying, overcoming obstacles (weather and cholera), finding laborers, and cajoling investors, including the federal government, which provided massive aid for construction. Rail barons "achieved a near-miracle by building a railroad through some of the roughest terrain in the country," but they "couldn't overcome the widespread perception of their company as a monster that threatened the American republic form of government itself." In more than 60 articles written in the 1890s for William Randolph Hearst's San Francisco Examiner, Bierce reamed the railroad and its owners. Based on Bierce's writing and other sources, Norris then wrote The Octopus (1901), a novel about a railroad whose tentacles wrapped around California. Drabelle's chapters on Bierce and Norris make fine introductions to these important but lesser-known American writers. A nicely crafted portrait of monopolists and muckrakers.

Dust Jacket Condition: mit Schutzumschlag. Spätere Ausgabe. 22,5 x 28 cm. o. J. [1981]. Nicht paginiert. Farbig illustrierter Originalpappband, Schmuckvorsätze. Zahlreiche farbige lllustrationen. Sehr guter Zustand. Großzügige Widmung des Autors gegenüber Titel. Hinweis: Versandkosten müssen bei Auslandsversand evtl. angehoben werden. Signatur des Verfassers.

First edition. Green boards, cover label. Edges chipped, spinr covering mostly lacking. BAL 1136. First edition, one of 50 numbered copies printed on japan vellum, signed by the editor.

No. 321 of 1500 copies, signed by the artist. Illustrations by Michel Ciry. 1 vols. 4to. Brown burlap. Fine, in Fine slipcase and chemise Illustrations by Michel Ciry. 1 vols. 4to No. 321 of 1500 copies, signed by the artist. Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Copy #106, signed and personally inscribed by Albert M. Bender on the front free endpaper. Cover shows minor to moderate wear, tear, edgewear, and rubbing. Pages are tanned and clean.

Tan Clo0th. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Chipped DJ. First Edition, Limited. Paper spine label. Dust jacket browned at edges, small paper loss bottom of front cover. This copy is SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR INSCRIBED TO KARL YOST. Number 207/300 copies printed at the Torch Press. Yost was best-known as the bibliographer of C.M. Russell. Ther last 10 pages are reserved for future collations and various notes in pencil are laid-in to those pages, presumably made by Yost. Some off-setting from these papers. A fine association copy. Please see photos.118pp. plus the additional pages noted above. Size: Crown Octavo. Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. First Limited. Limited to 950 numbered copies of which the first 50 were printed on Japanese Velum and signed by the editor Samuel Loveman. Printed and bound by Lovecraft associate and Ohio bookseller George Kirk in green paper over boards. This issue is numbered 35 of 50 and is signed on the limitation page by Loveman. Pages have yellowed around the edges. Binding is secure but cracked at the center and the spine paper has worn off leaving the muslin exposed. Corners worn and edges rubbed. A half inch corner of both front and back covers is missing. An acceptable copy.

Limited edition. Signed by the author of the introduction and the illustrator. Publisher's original red cloth with silver titles to the black cloth spine, and with an illustration of a crowing bird atop an American flag stamped in black to the upper board, in the black and red cloth slipcase. Orange satin ribbon page marker. Illustrated endpapers, a colour portrait of Ambrose Bierce, and black and white plates by Jason C. Eckhardt throughout. A fine copy, the binding square and firm, the cloth bright and fresh, with just a hint of rubbing to the spine tips. The contents are clean throughout, and without previous owners' inscriptions or stamps. Housed in the fine, structurally sound slipcase, which remains bright and fresh. A lovely example. Issued in an edition of 200 copies, from which this example is numbered 48, and signed by the author of the introduction S.T. Joshi and the illustrator Jason C. Eckhardt in black ink on the colophon. Ambrose Bierce (1842-1913?) was an American editorialist, journalist, short story writer, fabulist, and satirist. He wrote the short story 'An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge' (1890) and compiled a satirical lexicon, 'The Devil's Dictionary' (published as 'The Cynic's Word Book' in 1906; the complete version retitled and released in 1911). His style often embraces an abrupt beginning, dark imagery, vague references to time, limited descriptions, impossible events and the theme of war. In 1913, Bierce traveled to Mexico to gain first-hand experience of the Mexican Revolution. While traveling with Pancho Villa's rebel troops, he disappeared without a trace. The exact circumstances of his death remain a mystery, and have been a point of speculation for numerous contemporary horror and weird fiction authors in their writings. Further details and images for any of the items listed are available on request. Lucius Books welcomes direct contact with our customers.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Deluxe Autograph Edition of Bierce's collected works, limited to 250 copies signed by Bierce. This set is out of series and numbered, with each volume signed by Bierce (the regular limitation copies are only signed in volume 1). Four volumes are signed in pencil, the remainder signed in blue ink. The prolific American writer and Civil War veteran was renowned for his sharp political commentary and his mysterious disappearance in 1914 two years after the publication of Volume XII of The Collected Works. "There is something terribly beautiful and fitting in the manner of the passing of Ambrose Bierce. Soldier-fighter and soldier-writer. Scotson Clark's well-known caricature of Bierce dragging a pen from a scabbard is the undying portrait of the man (Starrett). Bierce s legacy endures, with his work adapted, referenced, or fictionalized across a wide range of media, including comic books, films, novels, plays, and television. New York: Neale Publishing Co., 1909-1912. Octavo, contemporary 3/4 green morocco over cloth, lined in gilt, five raised bands to spine, lettered and decorated in gilt, top edge gilt, green endpapers, half-titles, frontispiece portrait of Bierce reproduced from a lithograph by F. Soule Campbell, decorated title-pages designed by Frederick Polley. All volumes in very good or better condition. Bindings remain tight, sturdy and square. Spines a touch sunned, light general shelfwear with a few corners just starting to fray, a handful of nicks to boards and a few small stains, rubbing to top edge gilt. Internally clean. A very attractive set, rare with each volume signed. Signed by Author(s).

Leather. Condition: Fine with no dust jacket. 8.25; 12-volume set, complete, richly carved and pressed leather. SIGNED by Bierce in the prelims of volume 1. This is set #19 of 250. BAL 1129. Krick 34. Starrett 24. Dedicated to J J Weiserk Esq. And signed below in the hand of Ambrose Bierce, the author. Uniformly bound in luxury morocco with decoration in blind and gilt, Minor rubbing and darkening on part of the bottom edge of one cover from the shelf It sat on. Other than that the set is just about perfect. Contents are firm and pages are Midst of Life ( Tale of Soldiers and Vivilians) -- v. 3. Can Such Things Be? The Ways of Ghosts. Soldier- Folk. Some Haunted Houses -- v. 4. Shapes of Clay. Some Ante- Mortem Epitaphs. The Scrap Heap -- v. 5. Black Beetles in Amber. The Mummery. On Stone -- v. 6. The Monk and the Hangman's Daughter. Fantastic Fables. Fables from "Fun." Aesopus Emendatus. Old Saws with New Teeth. Fables in Rhyme --v. 7. The Devil's Dictionary -- v. 8. Negligible Tales. The Oarenticide Club. The Fourth Estate. The Ocean Wave. "On With the Dance!" Epigrams -- v. 9. Tangential Views -- v. 10. The Opinionator. The Reviewer. The Controversialist. The Timorous Reporter. The March Hare -- v. 11. Antepenultimata -- v. 12. A set that is so fresh it literally sparkles. He was created an Honorary Knight Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire and was awarded the National Medal of Arts and Humanities in 1997. Bierce signed only the first volume number one but each volume thereafter was hand labeled as #19 either by he or his amanuensis. All covers with richly gilded turn-ins and purple silk. Measurements are 8 5/8 x 5 7/8 x 2". Bierce, a prolific American author and Civil War veteran, was known for his biting political writing and his mysterious disappearance in 1914, 2 years after volume XII of The Collected Works was published. "There is something terribly beautiful and fitting in the manner of the passing of Ambrose Bierce. Soldier-fighter and soldier-writer. Scotson Clark's well-known caricature of Bierce dragging a pen from a scabbard is the undying portrait of the man" (Starrett). His work has been adapted, referenced, or fictionalized in many forms including comic books, films, novels, plays, and television shows. ; Signed by Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Ambrose Bierce (illustrator). 1st Edition. Royal 8vo. published 1909 through 1912 3/4 crushed brown levant with tan cloth boards, top edge gilts, others uncut. Volume One contains the limitation page stating this to be the "Author's Edition" and is signed by Ambrose Bierce in full ink and is numbered 3 of only 25 sets. This set is listed in John Howell's catalogue and lot 974 and in Blanck as B 1129. This may well be the first trial advance set in only 25 sets to test the market for such an expensive set by Bierce which was then followed by the deluxe standard 1 of 250 signed sets in the later part of the same year. Fine, beautiful signed binding by the Booklover's Binders of New York. Superb set First edition thus. Octavo: 12 volumes / v1: Ashes of the Beacon,: etc: 402 pp / Frontis. portrait / v2: In the Midst of Life: 403 pp v3: Can Such Things Be: 427 pp / v4: Shapes of Clay: 376 pp / v5: Black Beetles in Amber: 381 pp / v6: Monk and the Hangman's Daughter: 383 pp / v7: Devil's Dictionary: 375 pp / v8: Neglible Tales: 381 pp / v9: Tangential Views: 384 pp / v10: Opinionator: 394 pp / v11: Antepenultimata: 398 pp / v12; In Motley. Signed by Author(s).

First Edition. First edition. Twelve volumes, EACH ONE SIGNED BY BIERCE. (The regular signed limited edition of 250 numbered copies was signed in first volume only.) THIS SET WITH "COMPLIMENTS OF" PAGE SIGNED BY BIERCE IN EACH VOLUME, three of which are signed in ink, the rest in pencil. (Four of the "Compliments of" pages have "For" printed at the head of the page though no recipient has been filled in, the rest are printed simply "Compliments of.") Uniformly and BEAUTIFULLY BOUND in 8vo three-quarter deep brown morocco with burgundy linen sides; gilt-stamped raised spine bands separating four elaborately gilt-decorated panels, each with center fleuron, and two gilt-titling panels with author and volume number in first and titles list in second. "Special Autograph Copy" stamped in gilt between gilt rules at bottom of each spine. Top edges gilt; pale blue marbled endpapers in all but the 5th and 11th volumes which have gray endpapers. Frontis portrait of Bierce in Volume I, as called for. FROM THE COLLECTION OF WILLARD S. MORSE (1856-1935), a mining executive in the West and Mexico, with his bookplate designed by Howard Pyle affixed to front pastedown of each volume. "Morse Collection" card with handwritten author and title tipped to rear pastedown of first volume. Morse's bookplate in second volume with signature "Grant E. Bell" dated 1938 at bottom and with short, penciled quote from the text on verso of first blank. With the exception of Volume 6, which is outwardly fine but has sustained damage to fore edge of text block (not so as to affect any text), the set is otherwise nearly fine with only scattered finger smudges, a few small stains, light foxing to fore edges of a few volumes, and the occasional corner rub. "SPECIAL AUTOGRAPH COPIES". Signed.