In a fitted box. Black cloth binding with gilt title on the spine. Red and black marbled boards.

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The Devil’s Dictionary is a satirical dictionary written by American journalist and author Ambrose Bierce. Originally published in 1906 as The Cynic’s Word Book, it features Bierce’s witty and often ironic spin on many common English words. Retitled in 1911, it has been followed by numerous “unabridged” versions compiled after Bierce’s death, which include definitions absent from earlier editions. The Devil’s Dictionary began during Bierce’s time as a columnist for the San Francisco News Letter, a small weekly financial magazine founded by Frederick Marriott in the late 1850s. Although it was a serious magazine aimed at businessmen, it contained a page of informal satirical content titled “The Town Crier”. Hired as the “Crier”‍ ’​s editor in December 1868, Bierce wrote satire with such irreverence and lack of inhibition he was nicknamed “the laughing devil of San Francisco”.