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BIERCE, Ambrose (1842-1914). Tales of Soldiers and Civilians. San Francisco: E.L.G. Steele, 1891.
12o. Original grey cloth, gilt-lettered on front cover and spine (few small pale stains, otherwise a fine copy); cloth folding case.
FIRST EDITION. Among Bierce's somewhat gruesome tales included here is "The Middle Toe of the Right Foot," described by Dorothy Scarborough as "from the same body as Maupassant's Hand. What a terrible corpus it must be! There is the same gruesome mystery, the same implacable horror in each story of a mutilated ghost" (Dorothy Scarborough, The Supernatural in Modern English Fiction, New York, 1967, p.61). BAL 1109.
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FIRST EDITION. Among Bierce's somewhat gruesome tales included here is "The Middle Toe of the Right Foot," described by Dorothy Scarborough as "from the same body as Maupassant's Hand. What a terrible corpus it must be! There is the same gruesome mystery, the same implacable horror in each story of a mutilated ghost" (Dorothy Scarborough, The Supernatural in Modern English Fiction, New York, 1967, p.61). BAL 1109.