Shapes of Clay
by BIERCE, Ambrose
- Used
- Signed
- Condition
- Stains on seven pages from clippings once laid in, a marginal tear on a leaf from rough opening, slightly soiled on rear cover,
- Seller
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Ardsley, New York, United States
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About This Item
In the spring of 1903 the two protégés induced Wood to publish a collection of Bierce's poetry, which had appeared in his columns over the previous twenty years. Sterling raised the money for the publication and Scheffauer, an architect by profession and a poet by avocation, designed the striking pictorial binding. In 1927 Scheffauer "joined a long list of Bierce associates who met macabre ends - in his instance, by fatally stabbing his wife and leaping to his death from a hotel window" (Roy Morris, Jr., 'Ambrose Bierce,' 1996, p. 229). Laid in is a four-page promotional leaflet for the book. Starrett A17: "A large part of the first edition... was destroyed, it is said, in the San Francisco fire." BALL 1122. (BA).
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- Bookseller
- Riverrun Books & Manuscripts (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 409146
- Title
- Shapes of Clay
- Author
- BIERCE, Ambrose
- Book Condition
- Used - Stains on seven pages from clippings once laid in, a marginal tear on a leaf from rough opening, slightly soiled on rear cover,
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- From the Bart Auerbach Collection
- Publisher
- W. E. Wood
- Place of Publication
- San Francisco
- Date Published
- 1903
- Keywords
- Bart Auerbach
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry; Literature;
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