NMLP P-040908 · 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

Note the scale: Doubleday printed and bound 1,341 copies (147 to the author and reviewers, 1,070 sold, the balance remaindered), and the text runs only A through L, with 521 definitions

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-040908 for "The Devil's Dictionary" by Ambrose Bierce (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-040908, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).