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TALES OF SOLDIERS AND CIVILIANS
de Bierce, Ambrose
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- First
- Estado
- Mild rubbing to cloth at spine ends and corner tips, small stain to lower right front cover a very good to nearly fine copy. (24
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San Francisco: E. L. G. Steele, 1891. First edition. Mild rubbing to cloth at spine ends and corner tips, small stain to lower right front cover a very good to nearly fine copy. (24971). Octavo, pp. [1-8] 9-300 [301-304: blank] [note: penultimate leaf is a blank; final leaf excised; fly leaf precedes title leaf], original brown cloth, front and spine panels stamped in gold. Classic collection of short fiction including "An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge," Bierce's best known story. Stories "reminiscent of Poe's tales of horror and marked by an ingenious use of the surprise ending, a sardonic humor, and a realistic study of tense emotional states" (OCAL). Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 1-13. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 2-7. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 162. Clareson, Science Fiction in America, 1870s-1930s 073. Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, pp. 33-4. Survey of Modern Fantasy Literature III, pp. 1436-40. Tymn (ed), Horror Literature 3-23. Bleiler (1978), p. 23. Reginald 01265. Wright (III) 525. BAL 1109 (binding variant A). Starrett 8. Grolier American 100: 94. Baird and Greenwood, An Annotated Bibliography of California Fiction 1664-1970 252.
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- Librería
- John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 24971
- Título
- TALES OF SOLDIERS AND CIVILIANS
- Autor
- Bierce, Ambrose
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Mild rubbing to cloth at spine ends and corner tips, small stain to lower right front cover a very good to nearly fine copy. (24
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First edition
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Editorial
- E. L. G. Steele
- Lugar de publicación
- San Francisco
- Fecha de publicación
- 1891
- Palabras clave
- SC . Horror
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John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB
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John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB
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Laurel, Maryland
Sobre John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB
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