New York: Doubleday, Page & Company. Very Good- with no dust jacket. 1906. 1st Edition, First State. Hardcover. Decorative olive cloth binding rubbed at extremities; spine head and front board bumped at corner; light stains to backstrip & rear board; lettering on boards and spine a bit faded; owner's name inked on front free endpaper, gilt edges dulled, else a nice tight book. No dust jacket. ; 1st edition; 1st state; no frontis as issued; top edges gilt.; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 233 pages .

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Bookseller: Hyde Brothers, Booksellers (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 54007
Title: The Cynic's Word Book
Author: Bierce, Ambrose
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Very Good- with no dust jacket
Edition: 1st Edition, First State
Publisher: Doubleday, Page & Company
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 1906

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