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Publication: The Cynic's Word Book

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  • Publication: The Cynic's Word BookPublication Record # 768794
  • Author: Ambrose Bierce
  • Date: 1906-10-00
  • Publisher: Doubleday, Page & Company
  • Price:
    $1.00?$: US dollar
  • Pages: v+234
  • Format:
    hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
  • Type: NONFICTION
  • Notes:
    • 1st ed. Library of Congress (LCCN, below) reports a copy of "First ed., state A."
    • Price $1.00 from review/excerpts, Nashville American 1906-11-04 p35 (earliest found). Price $1.10 postpaid, from publisher advertisement as one of several "Also New", NY Times 1906-09-29 pBR603.
    • Library of Congress(*) and HathiTrust Digital Library provide full view of one copy, apparently without original cover. (*)Address at http://hdl.loc.gov is redirected to a target as archive.org (2020-04-20). -- title page (at Archive.org) as New York only -- t.p. verso: copyright entered 1906-08-30 (inscribed), two copies received 1906-09-21 (stamped), published October (printed) -- Preface, p.v-vi, closes "A. B." and "Washington, D. C., May, 1906" -- word entries, p3-[234] (last page unnumbered)
    • British Library BL 000348151 and WorldCat OCLC 558025225 report a US-printed London edition or printing from Doubleday, Page. Perhaps that may be considered a state of the "first edition".
  • External IDs:
Nonfiction Title: The Cynic's Word Book • (1906) • nonfiction by Ambrose Bierce

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