Author: BIERCE, AMBROSE
Title: In the Midst of Life: Tales of Soldiers and Civilians (Franklin Library Collected Stories of the World's Greatest Writers Series)
Description: Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1979. Leather. This collection of short stories by Ambrose Bierce (1842-c.1914) includes his acclaimed "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge". The author was an American Civil War soldier, journalist, humorist and short story writer. This deluxe Franklin Library edition includes a drawn portrait of Bierce by Herbert Tauss and illustrations by Dennis Lyall. Issued as an entry in the publisher's Collected Stories of the World's Greatest Writers series. One of an unspecified number in this limited edition. Publisher's "Notes from the Editors" booklet is laid in. --- Bound in rich full blue bonded leather covers with two raised bands on spine. Spine titling, elaborate decorations to covers and spine, and textblock edges all in bright gilt. Interior leaves printed on high-quality papers. Blue-grey silk moire endpapers, with matching sewn-in satin ribbon bookmark. Volume lacks a dust jacket (as issued). --- An about-Near Fine copy with slight sunning to edges of moire endpapers, otherwise bright, crisp and lacking additional damages or evidence of having been read.; Octavo (8 to 9 in. tall); [14], 280 pages. Near Fine with no dust jacket .
Keywords: >>Classic Fiction, Literature >>CIVIL War (U.S. ) >>Illustrated Classics >>Fine Bindings
Title: In the Midst of Life: Tales of Soldiers and Civilians (Franklin Library Collected Stories of the World's Greatest Writers Series)
Description: Franklin Center, Pennsylvania: The Franklin Library, 1979. Leather. This collection of short stories by Ambrose Bierce (1842-c.1914) includes his acclaimed "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge". The author was an American Civil War soldier, journalist, humorist and short story writer. This deluxe Franklin Library edition includes a drawn portrait of Bierce by Herbert Tauss and illustrations by Dennis Lyall. Issued as an entry in the publisher's Collected Stories of the World's Greatest Writers series. One of an unspecified number in this limited edition. Publisher's "Notes from the Editors" booklet is laid in. --- Bound in rich full blue bonded leather covers with two raised bands on spine. Spine titling, elaborate decorations to covers and spine, and textblock edges all in bright gilt. Interior leaves printed on high-quality papers. Blue-grey silk moire endpapers, with matching sewn-in satin ribbon bookmark. Volume lacks a dust jacket (as issued). --- An about-Near Fine copy with slight sunning to edges of moire endpapers, otherwise bright, crisp and lacking additional damages or evidence of having been read.; Octavo (8 to 9 in. tall); [14], 280 pages. Near Fine with no dust jacket .
Keywords: >>Classic Fiction, Literature >>CIVIL War (U.S. ) >>Illustrated Classics >>Fine Bindings
Price: US$ 29.50 Seller: Bluebird Books
- Book number: 89092
- Book number: 89092