SIGNED BY BIERCE
The Cynic's Word Book.
New York: Doubleday, Page, [October], 1906.
Price: $5,500.00
About the item
First edition, BAL state A (no priority). [vi], 233, [1] pp. 1 vols. 8vo. SIGNED BY BIERCE. 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.
Signed in pencil by Bierce on the flyleaf.
