Monk and the Hangman's Daughter.
Item #78895
BIERCE, Ambrose, and DANZIGER, Gustav Adolph. The Monk and the Hangman's Daughter. Illustrated by Theodor Hampe. Original pictorial cloth. Chicago: F.J. Schulte & Company, 1892. First edition, cloth bound issue, preceded by the copies in two forms of printed wrappers. BAL 1112. Wright III:524. An important association copy, inscribed by Bierce on the ?-title: "Lora Bierce from Ambrose." Lora was the wife of his brother Albert Bierce's son Carleton ("Carlt") Bierce, and the party to whom Bierce sent some of his famous final letters from Laredo, prior to his departure for Mexico (after which he disappeared). A translation with G.A. Danziger (pseud. of Adolphe de Castro). The best known of these letters reads in part: "Good-bye-if you hear of me being stood up against a Mexican stone wall and shot to rags please know that I think that a pretty good way to depart this life. It beats old age, disease, or falling down the cellar stair To be a Gringo in Mexico-ah, that is euthanasia!" Cloth a bit foxed and lightly soiled, else very good.
Price: $3,500.00