Search Results: tales of soldiers civilians by bierce ambrose paul

Heritage Press. Hardcover. USED Good/No Jacket. Edited with an introduction by Joseph Henry Jackson; illustrated with wood-engravings by Paul Landacre. Previous owner's bookplate on front pastedown. Some wear to edges.

The Heritage Press, 1943. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Hardcover with blue cloth spine with gilt lettering and small illustrations; boards covered in gray paper with blue lettering and illustration on front; no jacket; 222 pages; b&w illustrations. Very good condition: gilt on spine a bit dull; a little scuffing/loss of color to blue on spine; clean and unmarked; straight; hinges strong; pages excellent..

Easton Press, 2006. Leather Bound . Very Good. Dark leather binding with gilt stamped covers and edges, three backbone hubs, silk moire endleaves and satin marker sewn in. Bound with a slight outward curve to head of spine, noticeable only if viewed from a certain angle and not detracting from the quality of the binding. Traces of shelf wear to bottom corners and a few tiny scratches to gilt edges. Unused Easton Press bookplate laid in. 8vo. 222pp.

Easton Press, 1971-01-01. Leather Bound. Used:Good.

New York: Heritage Press, 1943. Tall 8vo. Original cloth-backed pictorial paper-laid boards (scuffed at corners - otherwise VG), no dustwrapper. Pp. xxx + 222, illus with wood engravings by Paul Landacre (no inscriptions).

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1943. Hardcover. Contents Fine. Wear along spine edges and corners with some loss including a chip above the author's name on the top of the spine. Good, lacking the chemise and slipcase. Paul Landacre. Tall octavo (7" x 10-3/4") imaginatively bound with a decorated linen center panel flanked by gilt-decorated dark sheepskin panels. Edited with an introduction by Joseph Henry Jackson. Copy #380 of 1500 illustrated with original wood engravings by Paul Landacre printed directly from the blocks and SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page.

Norwalk, Connecticut: Easton Press. New. 2006. Leather. Horror Classics Collection; Color frontis & drawings; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 222 pages; 2006 The Easton Press. Still sealed in publisher's shrinkwrap. Full blue leather with decorative pictorial cover design and titles blocked in gilt. All edges gilt, hubbed spine and silk moire endleaves. Color frontis by Patrick Jones and introduction by Joseph Henry Jackson. New copy in publisher's shrinkwrap. Hard to find Easton Press title in the 2006 Collection of Classic Horror. .

E-239. Very Good. Hardcover. Hardcover. 8vo. Published by the Limited Editions Club, New York, 1943. 222 pgs. #419 of a limited edition of 1500 copies. Illustrated with original wood engravings by Paul Landacre and signed by the artist on the colophon page. Slipcased. Issued in paper slipcase and slipcase is chipped and worn and split at the top edge. Bound in cloth boards with titles present to the spine and front board. Boards have light shelf-wear present to the extremities. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. This new collection gathers some of Bierce's finest stories, including the celebrated Civil War fictions 'An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge' and 'Chickamauga', his macabre masterpieces, and his tales of supernatural horror. Reminiscent of Poe, these stories are marked by a sardonic humour and a realistic study of tense emotional states. EB; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1943. Hardcover. Spine sunned with some light rubbing and light wear to the corners. Near Fine in broken chemise and Good slipcase with splits. Paul Landacre. Tall octavo (7" x 10-3/4") imaginatively bound with a decorated linen center panel flanked by gilt-decorated dark sheepskin panels. Edited with an introduction by Joseph Henry Jackson. Copy #354 of 1500 illustrated with original wood engravings by Paul Landacre printed directly from the blocks and SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page.

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1943. Hardcover. Light wear to corners. Backstrip of chemise darkened with split along one edge; splits to bottom and top edges of slipcase. Near Fine in a close to Very Good chemise and slipcase. Paul Landacre. Tall octavo (7" x 10-3/4") imaginatively bound with a decorated linen center panel flanked by gilt-decorated dark sheepskin panels. Edited with an introduction by Joseph Henry Jackson. Copy #90 of 1500 illustrated with ORIGINAL WOOD ENGRAVINGS by Paul Landacre printed directly from the blocks and SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. Monthly Letter laid in.

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1943. Hardcover. Ink name on front free endpaper. Slipcase with several archival tape repairs. About Fine in Good chemise and slipcase. Paul Landacre. Tall octavo (7" x 10-3/4") imaginatively bound with a decorated linen center panel flanked by gilt-decorated dark sheepskin panels. Edited with an introduction by Joseph Henry Jackson. Copy #665 of 1500 illustrated with original wood engravings by Paul Landacre printed directly from the blocks and SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page.

New York: Limited Editions Club, 1943. Hardcover. About Fine in glassine and a broken chemise, housed in a Fine slipcase with one short split. Uncommon in this condition. Paul Landacre. Tall octavo (7" x 10-3/4") imaginatively bound with a decorated linen center panel flanked by gilt-decorated dark sheepskin panels. Edited with an introduction by Joseph Henry Jackson. Copy #46 of 1500 illustrated with original wood engravings by Paul Landacre printed directly from the blocks and SIGNED by the artist on the colophon page. Tasteful bookplate of James Earl Beall, designed by Rockwell Kent, on the front pastedown.