Devils Dictionary by Bierce Ambrose, Signed (8 results)

Hardcover. Limited Editions Club. Limited Editions Club signed by Kredel. #1142 of 1500 printed with sandglass laid in rear.Clean pages, signature to rear crisp, binding tight, few light soil spots to cloth boards, light edge wear to slipcase Clean pages, signature to rear c. Signed.

Hardcover. Condition: Near fine. This is number 543 of 1,500 copies signed by Fritz Kredel. Accumulated over three decades for a series of magazines and newspapers, the entries in The Devil's Dictionary paint a revealing portrait of late 19th century American life, with all its contradictions and hypocrisies laid bare. Small quarto. Designed by Eugene Ettenberg and printed at The Stinehour Press. Set in monotype Bell and Tuscan Ornamental and printed on Curtis ivory-toned rag laid paper. Bound in quarter red cowhide stamped in black and gold, with black linen sides gold-stamped with a Kredel ornament. The spine is darkened just a touch; else fine. Housed in the publisher's slipcase.

Hardcover. Condition: New in publisher's box. Collector's Edition. 1017/1500. Quarto. 239 [1]pp. Original red half buckram over black buckram with gilt vignette on cover, gilt lettering on red and black spine, with original glassine dustjacket, housed in decorative paper-covered slipcase with black lettering on red paper label of spine. Decorative endpapers. Color woodcut on title page. Publisher's printed descriptor laid in. Signed by the artist on colophon. "Fritz Kredel has illustrated the book with twenty part-page woodcuts, including six with supplemental details printed in crimson. He has also provided a tailpiece, a colophon, and a series of miniature decorations to enclose the crimson alphabetical headings.

Hardcover. Fritz Kredel (illustrator). Tall octavo (6-3/4" x 11-1/4") bound in red cowhide-backed black linen gold-stamped with an ornament by Fritz Kredel; 256 pages. Printed at the Stinehour Press. With an introduction by Louis Kronenberger and illustrations by Fritz Kredel including 20 part-page woodcuts hand-colored by pochoir at the Walter Fischer Studio. Copy #1027 of 1500 SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. Fine in a Near Fine slipcase with a sunned backstrip.

Hardcover. Fritz Kredel (illustrator). Tall octavo (6-3/4" x 11-1/4") bound in red cowhide-backed black linen gold-stamped with an ornament by Fritz Kredel; 256 pages. Printed at the Stinehour Press. With an introduction by Louis Kronenberger and illustrations by Fritz Kredel including 20 part-page woodcuts hand-colored by pochoir at the Walter Fischer Studio. Copy #1390 of 1500 SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. Fine in glassine and a Near Fine slipcase with a mildly sunned backstrip.

Hardcover. Fritz Kredel (illustrator). Tall octavo (6-3/4" x 11-1/4") bound in red cowhide-backed black linen gold-stamped with an ornament by Fritz Kredel; 256 pages. Printed at the Stinehour Press. With an introduction by Louis Kronenberger and illustrations by Fritz Kredel including 20 part-page woodcuts hand-colored by pochoir at the Walter Fischer Studio. Copy #751 of 1500 SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. Fine in glassine and a Fine slipcase.

Limited Editions Club: NY 1972. Illus by Fritz Kredel, 11x7", 1/4 lea.; cloth, 239. Introduction by Louis Kronenberger. SIGNED BY KREDEL. Limited Editions Club. Nice in slipcase.

Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition, first printing, issue with no frontispiece, leaves on spine stem down. BAL's State A with no printer's imprint on copyright page, no priority. Association copy signed by Ambrose Bierce in pencil and inscribed to his friend DeLancey Gill: "with the author's compliments. Washington, D.C., January 21 1907." vi, 234 pp. Bound in publisher's dark olive cloth stamped in red and black, top edge gilt. Very Good with discreet fill-in at head and tail of spine, light rubbing and moderate staining to cloth, and bumping to corners. Hinges repaired with original endpapers preserved, sharp vertical crease to back free endpaper. Scattered foxing, light toning, and occasional thumbing and staining throughout. A worn but skillfully repaired association copy with sound binding. DeLancey Walker Gill was an artist and photographer who directed the Division of Illustration at the Smithsonian Institution's Bureau of American Ethnology from 1889 to 1932. He was also a member of the exclusive Cosmos Club and a pal of the satirist and newspaper writer Ambrose Bierce, who moved to Washington in 1896. "Bitter Bierce" was famous for breaking friendships, but this one must have lasted: a small note laid in reads: "Dear Babe -- Take good care of this book -- it is one of the few reminders of an old & dear friend -- Dad." "Babe" was Gill's nickname for his daughter Agnes, whose signature is in pencil above the original inscription.