The Cynic's Word Book

Overview:

  • Title: The Cynic's Word Book
  • Author: Ambrose Bierce
  • Year: 1906
  • Publisher: Doubleday, Page & Company
  • Price: $1.00
  • Pages: v+234
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Type: Non-fiction
  • Title Reference: The Cynic's Word Book
  • 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".