Burgess unabridged: a new dictionary of words you have always needed...With cover designs and illustrations by Herb Roth
New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company, [1914]. First edition, slim 8vo, pp. xxii, 120; text illustrations; extremities worn, else very in original illustrated paper-covered boards. Burgess is best remembered for his The Purple Cow (San Francisco, 1895). Here he defines and amplifies 100 words of his own invention from "agowilt" (sickening terror) to "zobzib" (an amiable fool). Item #44579
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