[Bierce (Ambrose)], "Dod Grile". The Fiend's Delight, title page vignette, 32pp. advertisements at rear, lower hinge weak, original brown cloth decorated in gilt, slight shelf-lean, spine tips and corners a little bumped and worn, John Camden Hotten, [1873]; Cobwebs from an Empty Skull, illustrations by the Dalziel Brothers, some light marginal soiling, original pictorial cloth, gilt, neatly rebacked, retaining original darkened backstrip, rubbed, George Routledge, 1874, first editions, preserved together in custom morocco-backed drop-back box, 8vo.

⁂ Bierce's first and third book, published during a three year sojourn in England.