The Book Club of California
AN INVOCATION BY AMBROSE BIERCE WITH A CRITICAL INTRODUCTION BY GEORGE STERLING AND AN EXPLANATION BY OSCAR LEWIS 1928
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AN | INVOCATION | BY | AMBROSE BIERCE | WITH A CRITICAL
INTRODUCTION BY | GEORGE STERLING | AND AN EXPLANATION
BY | OSCAR LEWIS | [decoration] | PRINTED FOR |
THE BOOK CLUB OF CALIFORNIA | BY JOHN HENRY NASH
OF | SAN FRANCISCO | 1928
11 × 7 ½. 30 pp.—title (i), printer’s and copyright notices (ii), explanation iii–viii,
introduction ix–xvi, text 1–13, blank (14).
Title and text within brown ruled and decorated border throughout. Type
Bauer Bodoni, handset. Paper handmade. Bound in brown and blue marbled
boards, brown leather label printed in gold on back. 300 copies printed by John
Henry Nash. Price $8.00.
This poem, written for a Fourth of July celebration in San Francisco, was considered
by George Sterling to be Bierce’s best. It first appeared in the San Francisco
Examiner and was reprinted in Shapes of Clay (1903).
One of the Fifty Books of the Year.
AN INVOCATION BY AMBROSE BIERCE WITH A CRITICAL INTRODUCTION BY GEORGE STERLING AND AN EXPLANATION BY OSCAR LEWIS 1928
→ 32 →
AN | INVOCATION | BY | AMBROSE BIERCE | WITH A CRITICAL
INTRODUCTION BY | GEORGE STERLING | AND AN EXPLANATION
BY | OSCAR LEWIS | [decoration] | PRINTED FOR |
THE BOOK CLUB OF CALIFORNIA | BY JOHN HENRY NASH
OF | SAN FRANCISCO | 1928
11 × 7 ½. 30 pp.—title (i), printer’s and copyright notices (ii), explanation iii–viii,
introduction ix–xvi, text 1–13, blank (14).
Title and text within brown ruled and decorated border throughout. Type
Bauer Bodoni, handset. Paper handmade. Bound in brown and blue marbled
boards, brown leather label printed in gold on back. 300 copies printed by John
Henry Nash. Price $8.00.
This poem, written for a Fourth of July celebration in San Francisco, was considered
by George Sterling to be Bierce’s best. It first appeared in the San Francisco
Examiner and was reprinted in Shapes of Clay (1903).
One of the Fifty Books of the Year.