The Cynic's Word Book

by Ambrose Bierce

$5,500 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller · No longer available

First edition

First edition, BAL state A no priority . vi , 233, 1 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Original brown decorated cloth. Fine. BAL 1124. Item #324704 First edition of a work comprising definitions for A through L that later gained fame as The Devil’s Dictionary a complete alphabet was published in 1911 as volume VII of the Collected Works .Bierce’s dark and mordant wit at its nimblest.

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