The Fiend’s Delight

Dod Grile, pseudonym for Bierce. Inscribed “compliments of the author” and dated July 7, 1873 by the author at half-title. Crown 8vo, merlot pictorial cloth, lettered and figured in gold. Front board shows a figure of a dancing satyr in gilt, blind double ruled borders. Gilt lettering and pictorial satyr at spine. Thirty pages of advertisements at rear following woodcut of donkey with quotation of Swift. (Starrett (1).) Freying at head and tail, covers worn with some loss of color. Hinge separated. Bierce’s first three books, The Fiend’s Delight, Nuggest and Dust, and Cobwebs from an Empty Skull, were all published in London under the pen name Dod Grile. The first two being published in 1873 and the third in 1874. (Grenander 38.) Good.