Lot 28
  • 28

Bierce, Ambrose

Estimate
1,000 - 1,500 USD
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Description

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Fantastic Fables. New York: G.P. Putnam's Son, 1899



12mo  (6 3/4 x 4 in.; 168 x 106 mm). Publisher's pictorial tan cloth featuring a king and cat in original printed dust-jacket; a few minor chips from edges of jacket front panel only, a remarkably well-preserved example.

Literature

BAL 1120

Condition

a few minor chips from edges of jacket front panel only
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Catalogue Note

First edition in an unrestored example of the scarce jacket.