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AMBROSE BIERCE AND THE DEATH OF KINGS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: The Viking Press, (2001.) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - SIGNED on the title page. Hall's second mystery featuring figure Ambrose Bierce- William Randolph Hearst's star journalist and San Francisco's most celebrated writer - investigating the disappearance of a visiting Hawaiian Princess. Cover praise from Michael Chabon, among others, who states this "invites the reader into a puzzling, seductive and above all, pleasurable fictional realm... Hall has one of the finest prose styles around: tough, agile, but tinged with a sepia hint of gentlemanly elegance.. perfectly suited to bringing to life the San Francisco of the 1890's, at once gilded and rough-hewn, brawling and refined." 276 pp. ISBN: 0-670-030074.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 33191More details Price: $30.00 -
AMBROSE BIERCE AND THE DEATH OF KINGS.
Edition: First printing.
New York: The Viking Press, (2001.) dj. Hardcover first edition - Hall's second mystery featuring figure Ambrose Bierce- William Randolph Hearst's star journalist and San Francisco's most celebrated writer - investigating the disappearance of a visiting Hawaiian Princess. Cover praise from Michael Chabon, among others, who states this "invites the reader into a puzzling, seductive and above all, pleasurable fictional realm... Hall has one of the finest prose styles around: tough, agile, but tinged with a sepia hint of gentlemanly elegance.. perfectly suited to bringing to life the San Francisco of the 1890's, at once gilded and rough-hewn, brawling and refined." 276 pp. ISBN: 0-670-030074.
Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 42994More details Price: $16.00 -
SAM JONES, LAWYER.
Edition: First printing.
Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 1947. dj. Hardcover first edition - An affectionate account of 'a horse-and-buggy lawyer in a Kansas town and 'short-grass country' of the eighteen nineties' up to 1922, by his son, also a country lawyer in the same offices in Lyons, Kansas that his father used. Illustrated with humorous drawings by Dick Underwood. 218pp
Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket.
Book ID: 37450More details Price: $25.00