Fantastic Fables

Title

en_US Fantastic Fables

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US First edition

en_US Ambrose Bierce

Creator

en_US Bierce, Ambrose See all items with this value

Date

2016-01-25T19:13:28Z

en_US 2003-12

en_US 1899

Date Available

2016-01-25T19:13:28Z

Date Issued

en_US 1899

Abstract

en_US At last I have found a--reported--first printing of this wonderful little book. The EBay advertisement makes all the right claims for the book, and the book bears them out. There are the advertisements, beginning with Anna Fuller's books, following 194. I learned here that this book, although the copyright is 1898, was published in 1899. Thus I have changed the other Bierce editions that had had a first date of 1898 to a new first date of 1899. The references that the EBay advertisement offers are McBride's Pocket Guide to the Identification of First Editions, pp. 74 and 282, and Bibliography of American Literature. I will also remember this book because the seller moved soon after the sale and forgot to send the book to me. After several weeks of waiting in vain, I thought I had become a victim of fraud. At last he responded with an email and then the book. See my comments on the 1970 Dover reprint.

Identifier

en_US 4676 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/80308

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US G. P. Putnam's Sons

en_US London

Subject

en_US PS1097.F3 1899a See all items with this value

en_US Bierce See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole