Burgess unabridged: a new dictionary of words you have always needed...With cover designs and illustrations

by Herb Roth by Gelett Burgess

$25 · Offered by Rulon-Miller Books · No longer available

First edition

New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, 1914 . First edition, slim 8vo, pp. xxii, 120; text illustrations; extremities worn, else very in original illustrated paper-covered boards. Burgess is best remembered for his The Purple Cow San Francisco, 1895 . Here he defines and amplifies 100 words of his own invention from agowilt sickening terror to zobzib an amiable fool . Item #44579

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