Author: 'Dod Grile' [pseudonym of Bierce, Ambrose. 1842 - 1914?]
Title: The FIEND'S DELIGHT
Description: New York: A. L. Luyster, 138, Fulton Street, 1873. 1st US edition (BAL 1097). Original publisher's brown cloth with gilt stamped spine lettering & 'demon' graphics, spine & front board. Custom cut protective clear mylar wrapper. Custom black cloth clamshell case. 197, [3] pp. T.p. vignette of a man roasting a baby on a stove. 'Donkey' cut, top margin p. [199]. 12mo. 7-1/4" x 4-7/8" Bierce "was an American short story writer, journalist, poet, and American Civil War veteran. A prolific and versatile writer, Bierce was regarded as one of the most influential journalists in the United States and as a pioneering writer of realist fiction. For his horror writing, Michael Dirda ranked him alongside Edgar Allen Poe and H. P. Lovecraft. S. T. Joshi speculates that he may well be the greatest satirist America has ever produced, and in this regard can take his place with such figures as Juvenal, Swift, and Voltaire. His war stories influenced Stephen Crane, Ernest Hemingway and others, and he was considered an influential and feared literary critic. In recent decades, Bierce has gained wider respect as a fabulist and poet. In 1913, Bierce told reporters that he was travelling to Mexico to gain first-hand experience of the Mexican Revolution. He disappeared and was never seen again.” [Wiki] This the author's 1st book. Contents: Some Fiction -- Tall Talk -- Current Journalings -- Obituary Notices -- Musings, Philosophical and Theological -- Laughorisms -- "Items" from the Press of Interior California -- Poesy. Slight lean. Gilt relatively bright. Hinges starting. Withal, a pleasing VG - VG+ copy in a VG+ case.

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