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(Mencken, H.L.). Alfred A. Knopf, editor MENCKENIANA: A Schimpflexikon
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1928. First edition. Hardcover. Light rubbing to upper and lower spine extremities, very mild soiling to the covers, else very good plus to near fine in orange cloth with titles and devices on gilt panels and with rules to the front cover and spine, top page edges gilt; no dust jacket.
A collection of articles gathered from newspapers, periodicals and pamphlets in which H.L. Mencken was the target of verbal slings and arrows. Mencken's harsh wit inspired a mountainous return of creatively spiked and venomous criticism. 132 pages.
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75.00 USD
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Mencken, H.L. SPIRITUAL AUTOPSIES
(Boston/New York): Houghton Mifflin Company, [undated]. First edition, first printing: an offprint from the Literary Review of the New York Evening Post. Fine with just a hint of wear; a trifold pamphlet, consisting of a title-page, rear page of ads, and four pages of text. 5''x3.5''.
Mencken piece occasioned by the release of Gamaliel Bradford's volume of biographies, AMERICAN PORTRAITS: 1875-1900. "I like these Bradford books. They make dead men seem real to me -- and often surprisingly likeable."--from the text. Scarce!
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150.00 USD
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Mencken, H.L. THE NEW MENCKEN LETTERS
New York: The Dial Press, 1977. 0803713797 / 9780803713796 First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Badly bumped to lower edge of front cover, else very good; in a price-clipped, spine-faded, very good only dust jacket, with a short tear and crease to lower front panel--corresponding to the bump.
"In the more than six hundred pages of THE NEW MENCKEN LETTERS few are the letters that do not have some inventive phrase, play of high spirits."--Commentary Magazine. A treasure trove of wit and wisdom. Edited by Carl Bode. 635 pages, including index.
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12.50 USD
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(Mencken, H.L.) Teachout, Terry THE SKEPTIC: A Life of H.L. Mencken
(New York): HarperCollinsPublishers, (2002). 006050281 First edition, first printing. Hardcover. Fine in a fine photo-pictorial dust jacket.
"Teachout, who discovered and edited A SECOND MENCKEN CHRESTOMATHY, draws on the acidulous author's private papers to write this biography."--Library Journal. 410 pages; source notes, select bibliography, and an index. Photographic plates.
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15.00 USD
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