NMLP P-040906 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-19

The Devil's Dictionary

Ambrose Bierce · Doubleday, Page & Company, New York (as 'The Cynic's Word Book') · 1906

BAL records the sheets in two states with NO priority established, so neither is 'the' first state: BAL State A has no printer's imprint on the copyright page, is issued without a frontispiece, and has the leaves of the spine ornament stemming downward

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-040906 for "The Devil's Dictionary" by Ambrose Bierce (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-040906, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).