The Devil's Dictionary (1906)

Ambrose Bierce · Doubleday, Page & Co., New York

Publisher Doubleday, Page & Co. Year 1906

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Who published The Devil's Dictionary first edition?: Doubleday, Page & Co., New York, in 1906, in hardback.

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