The Shadow on the Dial and Other Essays.
first edition
19091127 · San Francisco
by Bierce, Ambrose.
San Francisco: A. M. Robertson, 1909. First Edition (First Printing), BAL 1127. Octavo, green illustrated cloth (hardcover), gilt letters, uncut, xi, 249 pp. Very Good; in a dust jacket with both cover panels, but lacking spine. Contents: Preface; The Shadow on the Dial; Civilization; The Game of Politics; Some Features of the Law; Arbitration; Industrial Discontent; Crime and Its Correctives; The Death Penalty; Religion; Immortality; Opportunity; Charity; Emancipated Woman; The Opposing Sex; The American Sycophant; A Dissertation on Dogs; The Ancestral Bond; The Right to Work; The Right to Take Oneself Off. (Inventory #: 60938bd)