"Black Beetles in Amber" is a collection of over 100 poems published in 1892. This is a first edition and has an Ex Libris label for James D. Phelan who was a colorful mayor of San Francisco and US Senator. In fact, the poem in this book, The Last Man, includes Phelan in the prose: "Jim Phelan, who was thought to know a thing or two of land which rose but never sank?" Not sure what he was getting at, but I think it was a sick dig. The two characters often publicly feuded as evidenced by this letter to the San Francisco Examiner by Bierce.