The Fiend's Delight

GRILE (Dod)(pseudonym) & BIERCE (Ambrose)

The Fiend's Delight

First Edition, preceding the US edition. Illustrated title page. 12mo. Purple cloth with gilt demon on front board and spine. 197. Upper hinge just very slightly shaken, and some light wear to the binding, including a small light coloured spot on the front cover, but a tight and bright copy of Bierce’s first book. The 32 page publisher’s catalogue at rear, with one inch torn off the upper corner of the last leaf. London, John Camden Hotten, 1873.

£1,000.00

The first collection of Bierce’s writings to appear in book form, published during the author’s stay in England (1872-75).

The stories, aphorisms (or ‘laughorisms’), invented reports and poems are of a particularly morbid and grotesque nature, and are often only saved from complete misanthropy by wit and ironic insight. These last two qualities point towards the talent and reluctant compassion that would manifest themselves in Bierce’s later, best-known stories, such as An Occurance at Owl Creek Bridge.

Rare.

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