The Collected Works of Ambrose Bierce/Volume 2/Preface

by Ambrose Bierce

 

PREFACE
TO THE FIRST EDITION

 

Denied existence by the chief publishing houses of the country, this book owes itself to Mr. E. L. G. Steele, merchant, of this city. In attesting Mr. Steele's faith in his judgment and his friend, it will serve its author's main and best ambition.

A. B.

San Francisco, Sept. 4, 1891.