Supplements to H. L. Mencken Bibliography

ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS TO H. L MENCKEN: A DESCRIPTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY, BY RICHARD J. SCHRADER
as of 9/06
* = entered or significantly modified since last posting

Page xiii Permission received from Koshland for AAK inscriptions at NjP and NN.

Page xx Changes to private collections: AJG donated to the University of Maryland (MdU) in April 2003 (but not A 18.1.a [dj]); CB donated in 1998 to the Pierpont Morgan Library (NNPM); CW died 1997; RAW donated to the George Peabody Library of the Johns Hopkins University (MdBJ) in December 2004 (but not A 6.1.a, 29.1.b, 30.2.a, and B 119.1); SL in process of being sold.

A 1.1.a Binding B: . . . three holes. In some copies, the sheet forming the wrappers has been folded double.
Locations: . . . NjP (binding A [possibly S cloth]) . . .
Notes: . . . Fifty-two are known to exist, seventeen in private hands. . . . Her account of the known copies of Ventures has been augmented and updated by RJS in A New Census of H. L. Mencken's Ventures Into Verse (Baltimore: D. S. Thaler, 2005). Adler 5, 40 . . .
Review copy: . . . with slip (1-1/4" x 2-5/16") . . . TELEGRAM BLG :: BALTIMORE'. Location: KyLoU.

A 2.1.c Copies noted in dark blue and dark green cloth, with different gilt stamping on spine. Additional location: KK (2).

A 2.1.d Copy noted in same page size (8-3/4" x 6-1/4") as A 2.1.c and bound like it and other Folcroft printings (lettering reading down), but without added title page or limitation notice (KK).

A 2.1.f [Norwood, Pa.:] Norwood Editions, 1977. Title page added to those of A 2.1.c, same limitation page. Location: KK.

A 3.1.a Add to Publication: An RJS copy has an owner's inscription dated February 1908.

A 3.1.d . . . and an index added. KK copy signed and dated November 1913 by Mencken. Locations: GHT, RJS, KK.

A 3.1.e According to Mencken, the plates were sold to Knopf during World War II (unpublished part of MLAE quoted in DLB Yearbook: 1993 [B 226A], p. 183).

A 3.1.j Delete entry and reletter those subsequent. See G 28.

A 3.1.n Friedrich Nietzsche. New Brunswick, N.J., and London: Transaction, [1997]. On copyright page: 'Second printing 1997'. Location: KK.

A 3.1.o Friedrich Nietzsche. New Brunswick, N.J., and London: Transaction, [1998]. On copyright page: 'Third printing 1998'. Location: KK.

A 3.1.p Fourth Transaction printing presumed from next; not seen.

A 3.1.q Friedrich Nietzsche. New Brunswick, N.J., and London: Transaction, [2003]. On copyright page: 'Fifth printing 2003'. Location: KK.

A 3.2.a Second edition, only printing (2003)

Title page: 'The Philosophy of | Friedrich Nietzsche | by | H.L. Mencken | See Sharp Press [diamond] Tucson, Arizona [diamond] 2003'

Copyright page: 'Introduction and explanatory notes copyright © 2003 by Charles Q. Bufe. All | rights reserved. | For information contact See Sharp Press, P. O. Box 1731, Tucson, AZ 85702. | Web site: http://www.seesharppress.com | [nine lines of cataloging information]'

9" x 5-15/16". [A-D i] ii-xiii [xiv-xv] xvi-xvii [xviii-xxii 1] 2-8 [9] 10-15 [16] 17-23 [24] 25-29 [30] 31-35 [36] 37-42 [43] 44-51 [52] 53-58 [59] 60-68 [69] 70-73 [74] 75-86 [87] 88-95 [96] 97-102 [103] 104-13 [114] 115-23 [124] 125-28 [129] 130-34 [135] 136-44 [145] 146-50 [151] 152-58 [159] 160-71 [172-75] 176 [177-79] 180-81 [182] = 208 pp.

Perfect bound.

Contents: p. A: title; p. B: copyright; p. C: 'Contents'; p. D: blank; pp. i-xiii: 'Introduction' (signed 'Charles Bufe, Tucson, Arizona, 2003'); p. xiv: blank; pp. xv-xvii: 'Preface to the Third Edition' (signed 'H.L. Mencken, Baltimore, Maryland, 1913'); p. xviii: blank; p. xix: 'Publisher's Note'; pp. xx-xxii: blank; pp. 1-173: Mencken's text; p. 174: blank; pp. 175-76: 'Recommended Reading'; pp. 177-78: blank; pp. 179-81: 'Index'; p. 182: blank. Blank page of text: p. 172.

Binding: Glossy white paper wrappers printed in red, purple, light yellow, black, and reddish brown.

Locations: MChB, RJS, GHT.

Notes: The text is that of the 1913 Luce printings; translations and notes added. The chapter on 'How to Study Nietzsche' is severely reduced.

*A 3.3.a Third edition, only printing (2006)

Title page: '[first line in oval] [ornament] THE BARNES & NOBLE LIBRARY OF ESSENTIAL READING [ornament] | [lower case hereafter represents small caps] The Philosophy of | Friedrich Nietzsche | [ornament] | H. L. Mencken | Introduction by Dennis Sweet | [five lines of quotation from Schopenhauer] | Barnes & Noble | [short rule] | NEW YORK'

Copyright page: '[lower case in first two lines represents small caps] The Barnes & Noble | Library of Essential Reading | [short rule] | Introduction and Suggested Reading © 2006 | by Barnes & Noble, Inc. | Originally published in 1908 | This 2006 edition published by Barnes & Noble, Inc. | [four lines reserving rights] | ISBN-13: 978-0-7607-8091-6 | ISBN-10: 0-7607-88091-9 | Printed and bound in the United States of America | 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2'

8-3/16" x 5-7/16". [i-vi] vii-xviii [xix-xx] 1-41 [42-44] 45-174 [175-76] 177-205 [206] 207-17 [218] 219-27 [228] 229-30 [231-36] = 256 pp.

Perfect bound.

Contents: p. i: half title; p. ii: blank; p. iii: title; p. iv: copyright; pp. v-vi: 'Contents' [lower case to 'Mencken' represents small caps]; pp. vii-xv: 'Introduction'; pp. xvi-xviii: 'Preface to the Third Edition' (signed 'Mencken | Baltimore, November 1913'); pp. xix-205: text; p. 206: blank; pp. 207-17: 'ENDNOTES' (by HLM); p. 218: blank; pp. 219-27: INDEX; p. 228: blank; pp. 229-30: 'SUGGESTED READING'; pp. 231-35: catalogue; p. 236: blank. Blank pages of text: pp. xx, 42, 44, 176.

Binding: Stiff white paper wrappers printed in several colors; price 'U.S. $8.95/Canada $11.95'.

Locations: RJS, GHT.

Notes: The text is that of the 1913 Luce printings.

A 5.1.a.i . . . v-xxi [xxii] xxiii-v . . .

A 5.1.a.ii Only edition, only printing, Canadian issue (1909)

Same as A 5.1.a.i except:

Title page: '. . . TORONTO | THE MUSSON BOOK COMPANY, LIMITED'

[1]2 (+/- 1sub2) [2-10]8 [11]2 = 76 leaves. The title/copyright leaf is a cancel.

Dust jacket: Not seen.

Location: CaOHM.

Notes: Not in Adler.

A 6.1.a 7-1/2" x 4-1/2" or 7-3/8" x 4-1/2".
Additional location: GHT.

A 8.1.a Add to Notes: According to Dr. Howard Markel, the later printings were unstated; his source was the Butterick Company's archives in New York.

A 8.3.a Third edition, only printing (1989)
Notes: Publication announced 15 November 1989.

*A 13.1.b Second printing: [Whitefish, Mont.: Kessinger, May 2006]. Publishing data from Global BIP. On p. [86]: 'Printed in the United Kingdom | by Lightning Source UK Ltd.' Most of the pages are in reverse order. Later printed to order. Location: KK.

A 14.1.a 7-3/8" x 4-15/16" . . . verso blank).
Add to Notes: The original appearances of the pieces are listed by S. T. Joshi in Menckeniana 165.12-13.

A 14.2.h Delete entry and reletter the next one. See G 21A.

A 15.1.a Additional location: GHT.
Add to Notes: . . . note). Adler's attribution is based on Frey, but in MLAE (198) Mencken claims that he and Nathan wrote their own biographies. . . .

A 16.1.a Binding A: . . . intertwined 'AAK' (missing on KK copy). Untrimmed . . .
Additional locations: JRS (binding A, unsigned), KK (binding A), GHT (binding A), RJS (binding B [2]).
Change Notes: . . . large paper | uncut'. No evidence . . .

A 16.1.c In this printing, "indigent" is corrected to "indignant" on p. 201/l. 4. Additional location: RJS.

A 16.1.g On copyright page: 'Fith [sic] Printing, February, 1924'.

A 16.1.j Tenth printing: [Temecula, Cal.: Reprint Services, 1992]. Publishing data from OCLC. Same title and copyright pages as seventh printing. (1) 8-15/16" x 6-5/16". Black cloth stamped in gilt on spine: 'BOOK OF | PREFACES | [rule] | MENCKEN'. (2) 9" x 6". Black cloth stamped in gilt on spine: 'A BOOK | OF | PREFACES | [rule] | MENCKEN | X6612'. (3) 8-15/16" x 6". 'A BOOK OF | PREFACES | [rule] | MENCKEN | 6612'. Locations: INS, KK, GHT.

A 16.1.k Eleventh printing: [Whitefish, Mont.: Kessinger, January 2005]. Paperback reprint of seventh printing. Date from Global BIP. Later printed to order. Location: GHT.

*A 16.2.a Second edition, only printing (2006)

Title page: '[first line in oval] [ornament] THE BARNES & NOBLE LIBRARY OF ESSENTIAL READING [ornament] | Three Early Works [lower case represents small caps] | A Book of Prefaces | Damn! A Book of Calumny | The American Credo | [ornament] | H. L. Mencken | Introduction by Richard J. Schrader | Barnes & Noble [lower case represents small caps in previous three lines] | [short rule] | NEW YORK'

Copyright page: 'The Barnes & Noble | Library of Essential Reading [lower case represents small caps in previous two lines] | [short rule] | Introduction and Suggested Reading © 2006 by | Barnes & Noble, Inc. | Originally published in 1917 (A Book of Prefaces), 1918 (Damn!), | and 1920 (The American Credo) | This edition published by Barnes & Noble Publishing, Inc. | [four lines reserving rights] | 2006 Barnes & Noble Publishing | ISBN-13: 978-0-7607-8057-2 | ISBN-10: 0-7607-8057-9 | Printed and bound in the United States of America | 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2'

8-3/16" x 5-7/16". [i-viii] ix-xx [1-2] 3-164 [165-66] 167-251 [252-54] 255-437 [438] 439-44 = 464 pp.

Perfect bound.

Contents: p. i: half title; p. ii: blank; p. iii: title; p. iv: copyright; pp. v-viii: 'Contents'; pp. ix-xviii 'Introduction' [lower case represents small caps to here]; pp. xix-430: text; pp. 431-37: 'ENDNOTES'; p. 438: blank; pp. 439-42: 'INDEX'; pp. 443-44: 'SUGGESTED READING'. Blank pages of text: pp. 2, 166, 252, 254.

Text: A Book of Prefaces (fourth printing), Damn! A Book of Calumny (second printing), and The American Credo (second edition).

Binding: Stiff white paper wrappers printed in violet, black, and tan; price 'U.S. $14.95/Canada $19.95'.

Locations: RJS, GHT.

A 17.1.a Add to Notes: Mencken wrote to Ernest Boyd on 20 April 1918: ". . . the first edition (1,000 copies, divided bogusly into Second Printing and Third Printing) is exhausted, and it is to go back to press. . . . You have the first edition--without any Second Printing gabble on the title page" (Forgue 121). However, he did not report this to Frey. The copies of the second and third "printings" noted match the first in all points except for the added indication on the title page. None has the hand corrections. Like the first, they have a faint linear smudge to the left of the page number on p. 12. If Mencken is right, the three "printings" are actually issues of a single printing.

A 17.2.a.i Binding A: Piece with presumed 'COMPANY' actually missing from copy noted.
Additional location: RJS (binding B).

*A 17.3.a Third edition, only printing: New York: Barnes & Noble, [2006]. See Three Early Works (A 16.2.a).

A 18.1.a Dust jacket: . . . Spine: 'IN | DEFENSE | OF | WOMEN | [short rule] | H [raised dot] L [raised dot] Mencken | . . .'
Additional locations: GHT (3 [2 in binding A, 1 in B), RJS (2 in binding A).
Notes: . . . See B 48A for a German translation with a new (1923) afterword, and B 81 for a Hungarian . . . One GHT copy 7-3/8" x 4-15/16".

A 18.1.b.ii . . . 'THIRD PRINTING' on front of dust jacket (GHT).

A 18.1.d Location: KK.

A 18.1.f New York: Octagon, 1987. Location: GHT.

A 18.2.a Binding: . . . Spine: '[ornate border] | IN | DEFENCE . . .
Notes: Delete sentence on 'ADVANCE COPY'. Add: B 48B offers each volume in the series at $2 apiece, or the six in a box for $10. The original appearances of the pieces are listed by S. T. Joshi in Menckeniana 165.13-15.
Review copy: Unbound, untrimmed gatherings held by a string and inserted in unprinted brown wrapper, 7-11/16" x 5"; pencil notation on top of title page: 'ADVANCE COPY'. Location: GHT.

A 18.2.b Two states of binding: 'DEFENCE' and 'DEFENSE' on spine. Additional location: KK (3).

A 18.2.l Second edition, twelfth printing: Garden City, N.Y.: Garden City Pub. Co., [n.d.].

8-1/8" x 5-1/2". The Garden City printings are dated 1931 and 1934 . . . Noted on dust jackets: '31-7', '31-11', '33-1-2'. Locations: GHT (3 in dj), KK (5 in dj), JRS (dj).

A 18.2.m Second edition, thirteenth printing: Garden City, N.Y.: Garden City Pub. Co., [n.d.].

7-3/4" x 5-1/2". Noted on dust jackets: '34-5-6-7'. Locations: GHT (dj), KK (3 [2 in dj]).

A 18.2.n Second edition, fourteenth printing: [Whitefish, Mont.: Kessinger, January 2004]. Paperback Star Book reprint in large print. Date from Global BIP. Locations: GHT, KK.

A 18.3.a Dust jacket: White paper. Front: 'IN DEFENCE OF WOMEN | H.L. MENCKEN Author of "Prejudices: First [A, P, F small caps] | Series," "Prejudices: Second Series," | A Book of Prefaces," etc. | [JC device]'. Spine: '[double rule] | IN DEFENCE | OF WOMEN | H.L. MENCKEN | [JC device] | JONATHAN CAPE | [double rule]'. Back and rear flap unprinted. Front flap: 'IN DEFENCE OF WOMEN | [ornament] | [seventeen-line quotation from introduction] | [ornament] | In Defence of | Women'.
Additional locations: KK (dj), RJS.

A 18.3.c Travellers' Library Series. On copyright page: 'REPRINTED 1929'. Published October 1929. Location: KK.

A 18.3.d Travellers' Library Series. On copyright page: 'THIRD IMPRESSION JANUARY 1933'. Location: KK.

A 18.3.f Third edition, sixth printing: London: Cape, [1938]. Travellers' Library Series. On copyright page: 'FIFTH IMPRESSION AUGUST 1938'. Location: KK.

*A 18.4.a.i Binding B: . . . M 1.80 | [thick-thin rule] | [thin-thick rule]'. . . .
Additional location: RJS (binding B).

A 18.4.a.ii-x . . . October (GHT), November (KK) 1927 . . .

A 18.6.a Sixth edition, only printing (2000)

Title page: '[rule] | H. L. | Mencken | [rule] | In Defense | of Women | [Transaction Large Print device] | Transaction Publishers | New Brunswick (U.S.A.) and London (U.K.)'

Copyright page: 'Copyright © 2000 by Transaction Publishers, New Brunswick, New Jersey. | [six lines reserving rights] | This book is printed on acid-free paper that meets the American National Standard for | Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials. | Library of Congress Catalog Number: 99-34546 | ISBN: 1-56000-481-9 | Printed in the United States of America | [ten lines of Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data]'

9-1/4" x 6-1/16": [A-D] 1-129 [130-32] = 136 pp.

[1-2]16 [3]4 [4-5]16 = 68 leaves.

Contents: p. A: half title; p. B: blank; p. C: title; p. D: copyright; pp. 1-129: text; pp. 130-32: blank.

Binding: White, gray, light brown, and black coated paper-covered boards.

Dust jacket: None.

Locations: GHT, RJS.

Notes: The text is that of the first edition, printed in large type.

A 18.7.a Seventh edition, first printing (2002)

Title page: 'In Defense of Women | H. L. Mencken'

Copyright page: 'IN DEFENSE OF WOMEN | Published in the United States by IndyPublish.com | McLean,Virginia | ISBN 1-4043-1070-3 (hardcover) | ISBN 1-4043-1071-1 (paperback)'

Colophon: '[to left of bar code] Printed in the United States | [number with letter B]'

9" x 6": [A-P 1] 2-11 [12] 13-31 [32] 33-61 [62] 63-88 [89] 90-103 [104-08] = 124 pp.

Perfect bound.

Contents: pp. A-B: blank; p. C: half title; p. D: blank; p. E: title; p. F: copyright; p. G: 'Contents'; p. H: blank; pp. I-N: 'Introduction' (signed 'H. L. Mencken'); pp. O-P: blank; pp. 1-104: text; pp. 105-07: blank; p. 108: colophon.

Binding A: Blue cloth stamped in gilt on spine; pastedowns evidently not cognate with initial and final leaves.

Binding B: Glossy white paper wrappers printed in black.

Dust jacket: None.

Locations: GHT (2), MChB, KK (2).

Notes: The text is that of the second (Free Lance) edition. Published June 2002 according to Mark Kamal of IndyPublish. Evidently printed to order; number in colophon differs in the copies noted.

A 18.8.a Eighth edition, only printing (2004)

Title page: 'In Defense of [lower case represents small caps] | WOMEN | H. L. Mencken | DOVER PUBLICATIONS, INC. | Mineola, New York'

Copyright page: 'Bibliographical Note | This Dover edition, first published in 2004, is an unabridged | republication of the work originally published in 1922 by Alfred A. | Knopf, Inc., New York. | [nine lines of Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data] | Manufactured in the United States of America | Dover Publications, Inc., 31 East 2nd Street, Mineola, N.Y. 11501'

8-1/2" x 5-3/8". [i-ii] iii [iv] v-xi [xii] 1-116 = 128 pp.

Perfect bound.

Contents: p. i: title; p. ii: copyright; p.iii: 'Contents' [lower case represents small caps]; p. iv: blank; pp. v-xi: 'Introduction' (signed 'H. L. Mencken' [lower case represents small caps]); p. xii: blank; pp. 1-116: text.

Binding: Glossy white paper wrappers printed in several colors and with the Nikol Schattenstein portrait on the front.

Locations: RJS, GHT, NhU.

A 19.1.a.i Notes: The copy "seen in a bookstore," no. 6, is in a glassine dj (also numbered on the front panel, in pencil) which may be original, but the offset shadows on the endpapers do not match it.

A 19.2.a.i Additional location: RJS (2 in binding B, dj).
Add to Notes: Pale yellow slip (6-3/4" x 2-5/16") with ad for the book on recto and list of 'Books of | H. L. MENCKEN' on verso laid in an RJS copy.
Salesman's dummy: 9-5/16" x 6-1/8", black cloth; [i-vi] 1-10, p. vi and the pages following 10 blank. Contains title and copyright pages, 'CONTENTS', 'PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION', and 'PREFACE TO THE REVISED EDITION' in a different setting of type. Location: MdBJ.

A 19.2.a.ii RJS copy's endpapers are conjugate with pastedowns, instead of being nonconjugate binder's leaves. Additional location: RJS.

A 19.3.a Copyright page: '. . . Set and electrotyped. . . .'
Binding B:An RJS copy is in a new Borzoi boards design (#23), spine as in binding A (rebound?).
Binding C: KK copy reported with spine printing as on A 19.3.d: taller letters and a regular as opposed to "winged" A in 'ALFRED.A.KNOPF [dots raised]'; smaller Borzoi Books logo blindstamped on back (3/4" x 1/2" as opposed to 7/8" x 5/8").
Additional locations: RJS (2), KK.

A 19.4.a.i Review copy: For his review in the Saturday Review of Literature (16 May 1936), J. B. Dudek apparently used an advance copy of some sort: "Those [misprints] discoverable will doubtless be corrected before the book is electrotyped."

A 19.4.e-f The KK copy of A 19.4.f has the BOMC brochure laid in.

A 19.4.fx As A 19.4.f but 9-5/16" x 6-3/16" x 1-3/16"; wove paper. Locations: GHT, KK.

A 19.4.i.ii Fourth edition, ninth printing, English issue: London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, [1941]. Label pasted over imprint on title page below the thick-thin rule (1" x 4-1/2"): 'LONDON | KEGAN PAUL, TRENCH, TRUBNER & CO., LTD. | BROADWAY HOUSE, 68-74, CARTER LANE, E.C. 4'. Location: KK.

A 19.4.j . . . 1943'; note on compliance with government regulations. Additional location: KK.

A 19.4.l.ii Fourth edition, twelfth printing, English issue: London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, [1946]. Label pasted over imprint on title page below the thick-thin rule (1-1/16" x 4-1/2"): 'LONDON | KEGAN PAUL, TRENCH, TRUBNER & CO., LTD. | BROADWAY HOUSE, 68-74, CARTER LANE, E.C. 4'. Location: KK.

A 19.4.n On copyright page: 'twelfth printing, October, 1949'. Location: KK.

A 19.4.p . . . September 1960; all four volumes August 1962. Additional location: RJS.

A 19.4.t.ii Fourth edition, twentieth printing, English issue: London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, [1962]. Label pasted over imprint below the thick-thin rule on title page (1-1/2" x 5"): 'ROUTLEDGE & KEGAN PAUL LTD | Broadway House, 68-74 Carter Lane | London, E.C.4'. The two supplements were issued simultaneously (A 56.1.j.ii, A 59.1.g.ii). Location: GHT.

A 19.4.z Fourth edition, twenty-sixth printing: New York: Knopf, 1973. On copyright page: 'nineteenth printing, March 1973'. Location: KK (2). Both noted copies bound in the (maroon) covers of AA7.1.

A 19.4.aa Fourth edition, twenty-seventh printing: New York: Knopf, 1974. On copyright page: 'twentieth printing, December 1974'. Location: KK (3). Noted copies bound in the (red) covers of AA7.1.

A 19.4.bb Additional location: KK. Copy noted bound in the (black) covers of AA 7.1.

A 19.4.ee Fourth edition, thirty-first printing: New York: Knopf, 1984. On copyright page: 'twenty-third printing, January 1984'. Location: KK.

A 19.4.ff Fourth edition, thirty-second printing. Not seen.

A 19.4.gg Fourth edition, thirty-third printing: New York: Knopf, 1999. On copyright page: 'twenty-fifth printing, July 1999'. Location: KK.

A 19.4.hh Fourth edition, thirty-fourth printing: New York: Knopf, 2000. On copyright page: 'twenty-sixth printing, May 2000'. Location: KK.

A 19.4.ii Fourth edition, thirty-fifth printing: New York: Knopf, 2003. On copyright page: 'Twenty-Seventh Printing, June 2003'. Location: KK.

A 20.1.a Additional location: RJS (2 in binding B).
Add to Notes: S. T. Joshi is tabulating the sources for the Prejudices series.

A 20.1.l KK copy was published without first leaf (half title/list of works through Prejudices: Fourth Series). Additional location: KK (regular).

A 20.1.r Stark, Kans.: De Young Press, 1997. Introduction by Mary De Young replaces copyright page. Locations: GHT, KK.

A 20.1.s Washington, D.C.: Ross & Perry, [2002]. Paperback. Location: KK.

A 20.1.t Washington, D.C.: Ross & Perry, [2003]. Hardback. Locations: GHT, KK.

A 20.1.u [Whitefish, Mont.: Kessinger, January 2004]. Paperback of tenth printing in large print. Date from Global BIP. Locations: GHT, KK.

A 21.1.a 7-7/8" x 5-1/4".
Add to Notes: Mencken wrote to Ernest Boyd on 26 January 1920: "It is published today, and he [Knopf] had sold out the whole edition last week. . . . Max Reinhardt's New York agent has bespoken the Continental rights to 'Helio' and is having the play translated into German and Hungarian at once. He says he thinks he can get an early production in Buda-Pesth. He probably lies. We have sent about 75 review copies to the Continent--shelling the woods" (Forgue 171).

A 21.1.b Notes: ... Yours H. L. Mencken 1919". He also dated the Theodor Hemberger copy 1919 (KK). A copy was reportedly ...

A 21.1.c Additional location: KK.
Add to Notes: KK copy is without handstamped number.

A 21.1.d Only edition, fourth printing: [Whitefish, Mont.: Kessinger Publishing, January 2005]. Date from Global BIP. Later printed to order. Paperback. Location: GHT.

A 21.1.e Only edition, fifth printing: Amsterdam: Freedonia Books, [2005]. Paperback. Location: KK.

A 22.1.c First edition, third printing: [Irvine, Cal.: Reprint Services, 1991?] Publishing data from OCLC and BIP. Black boards stamped in gilt on spine: '[reading down] THE AMERICAN CREDO - NATHAN | [horizontal] 6016'. Location: KK.

A 22.2.a Contents: . . . ENLARGED EDITION' (dated 1 January 1922); . . .
Add to Notes: S. T. Joshi has tabulated the sources for the text. The New American Credo was also in a limited printing of 50 untrimmed tall-paper copies signed by Nathan. It was reprinted New York: Blue Ribbon Books, 1927.

*A 22.3.a Third edition, only printing: New York: Barnes & Noble, [2006]. See Three Early Works (A 16.2.a).

A 23.1.a Binding C: Front cover same as binding A, label same as binding B.
Additional locations: KK (binding C), RJS (2 in binding A, dj).

A 23.1.e . . . bound in (1) the Prejudices format (7-3/8" x 5") and (2) the Pocket Book format (6-11/16" x 4-3/8", blue-green cloth stamped in red). Additional locations: KK, GHT.

A 23.1.g [Torrance, Cal.: Noontide, 1980]. 'PUBLISHER'S FOREWORD' signed by W. A. Carto and dated May 1980. Published in hardback and paperback. Locations: GHT (2), KK.

A 23.1.i [Newport Beach, Cal.:] Noontide, [1997]. On copyright page: 'This third Noontide Press edition | published in September 1997.' Large type, paperback. Locations: MB (3), GHT.

A 23.2.a Second edition, first printing (1999)

Title page: [lower case represents small caps] 'THE | Anti-Christ | BY | Friedrich Nietzsche | TRANSLATED AND WITH | AN INTRODUCTION BY | H.L. Mencken | See Sharp Press [diamond] Tucson [diamond] 1999'

Copyright page: 'Publisher's Note copyright © 1999 by Chaz Bufe. | Published by See Sharp Press, P. O. Box 1731, Tucson, AZ 85702. | Free catalog upon request. | [nine lines of cataloging description, including 'Reprint of the 1920 Knopf edition. | ISBN 1-884365-20-5'] | 193 | Cover design by Clifford Harper. Interior design by Chaz Bufe. Printed on acid- | free paper with soy-based ink by Thomson-Shore, Inc., Dexter, Michigan.'

8-1/2" x 5-7/16": [i-iv 1] 2 [3] 4-17 [18-21] 22-91 [92] = 96 pp.

Perfect bound.

Contents: p. i: title; p. ii: copyright; p. iii: 'Contents' [small caps]; p. iv: blank; pp. 1-2: 'Publisher's Note' [small caps] (signed 'CHAZ BUFE'); p. 2: 'EDITING NOTE' (signed 'C.B.'); pp. 3-17: 'Introduction' [small caps] (by HLM); p. 18: blank; p. 19: Preface' [small caps] (by Nietzsche); p. 20: blank; pp. 21-91: text; p. 92: ad.

Binding: Heavy white paper wrappers printed in brown and black; price $6.95.

Locations: GHT, RJS.

*A 23.2.b Second edition, second printing: New York: Cosimo Classics, [December 2005]. On-demand publication. "Publisher's Note" and Mencken's footnotes excised.

*A 23.3.a-b Third edition, unknown printings (2003)

Title page: 'THE | ANTICHRIST | Friedrich Nietzsche | translation by H. L. Mencken | WILDSIDE PRESS: MMIII'

Copyright page: 'THE ANTICHRIST | Published by: | Wildside Press | P.O. Box 301 | Holicong, PA 18928-0301 USA | www.wildsidepress.com | Copyright © 2003 by Wildside Press. | All rights reserved.'

Colophon: '[to left of bar code] Printed in the United States | [code with 'LVS' and 'B' in the midst]'.

9" x 6". [1-6] 7-109 [110-12] = 112 pp.; also . . . [110-16] = 116 pp.

Perfect bound.

Contents: pp. 1-2: blank; p. 3: half title; p. 4: blank; p. 5: title; p. 6: copyright; p. 7: 'PREFACE' (by Nietzsche); pp. 8-109: text; pp. 110-11 or 110-15: blank; p. 112 or 116: colophon.

Binding: Plastic covering yellow paper-covered boards printed in black and red.

Locations: KK, FJ.

Notes: Mencken's introduction and section 4 of the translation omitted. Evidently printed to order; code in colophon differs in two copies noted.

*A 23.4.a Fourth edition, only printing (2004)

Title page: 'THE ANTICHRIST | Friedrich Nietzsche'

Copyright page: None.

Colophon: '[to left of bar code] Printed in the United States | [code with 'LVS' and 'B' in the midst]'.

9-3/16" x 7-1/2": [i-ii] 1-61 [62] = 62 pp.

Perfect bound.

Contents: p. i: title; p. ii: 'Table of Contents'; p. 1: 'THE ANTICHRIST | Friedrich Nietzsche | Kessinger Publishing reprints thousands of hard-to-find books! | Visit us at http:kessinger.net | translation by H.L. Mencken | PREFACE [by Nietzsche]'; pp. 2-59: text; pp. 59-61: Mencken's notes; p. 62: colophon.

Binding: White wrappers printed in yellow, black, red, green, and gray.

Location: KK.

Notes: Published 30 June 2004 (Amazon.com) in Whitefish, Mont. (Global BIP). Mencken's introduction omitted. Evidently printed to order.

A 23.5.a Fifth edition, only printing (2005)

Title page: 'THE ANTICHRIST | By Friedrich Nietzsche | Translated by H. L. Mencken'

Copyright page: 'A Digireads.com Book | Digireads.com Publishing | 16212 Riggs Rd. | Stilwell, KS, 66085 | The Antichrist | By Friedrich Nietzsche | Translated by H. L. Mencken | ISBN: 1-4209-2509-1 | This edition copyright © 2005 | This book and many others are also available in electronic format. | Please visit www.digireads.com to purchase an e-book.'

Colophon: '[to left of bar code] Printed in the United States | [code with 'LVS' in the middle]'

8" x 5": [1] 2-86 [87-88] = 88 pp.

Perfect bound.

Contents: p. 1: title; p. 2: copyright; p. 3: 'PREFACE' (by Nietzsche); pp. 4-84: text of translation; pp. 84-86: 'FOOTNOTES created and inserted by H. L. Mencken:'; p. 87: blank; p. 88: colophon.

Binding: Heavy white paper wrappers printed in black, red, and mauve.

Locations: RJS, GHT, KK.

Notes: Mencken's introduction omitted. Evidently printed to order; code in colophon differs in three copies noted.

A 24.1.a Binding A: . . . unevenly trimmed . . . .
Additional locations: RJS (2 in binding B, dj), GHT (binding B, dj).

A 24.1.c . . . printing . . .

A 26.1.e Noted also in regular blue binding. Additional locations: KK, RJS.

A 26.1.g Additional locations: RJS, reported by D (orange).

A 26.1.i New York: Octagon, 1985. Location: KK.

A 29.1.a Copyright page: . . . INC. [raised dot] | PUBLISHED . . . YORK. [raised dot] | PRINTED . . . AMERICA'.
9-3/16" x 6".
Additional location: KK (2, bindings A and B).

A 29.1.b Add to Notes: Signed errata slip laid in to Paul Patterson's copy (MdBJ).

*A 29.1.c Copies noted with design ##4 or 4A on front, ##4A, 4B (new), or 4C (new) on back. Additional locations: KK (2, #4 with ##4A/4B), RJS (2, #4A with #4B/4C).

A 29.1.i New York: Octagon, 1987. Location: KK.

A 30.2.d Second edition, fourth printing: [Whitefish, Mont.: Kessinger, January 2003]. Date from Global BIP. Later printed to order. Location: GHT.

A 32.1.b Second printing: [Whitefish, Mont.: Kessinger, January 2003]. Date from Global BIP. Later printed to order. Location: GHT.

A 33.1.a Binding: . . . #21 in purple or #5 in orange. No label.
Dust jacket: Unprinted glassine.
Locations: GHT (#21 on box), Harv (#21), KK (#5, dj).

A 33.1.f First edition, fourth trade printing: New York: Octagon, 1980 [sic]. On copyright page: 'Second Octagon printing 1981'. Locations: D, KK.

A 33.1.g . . . fifth trade printing: New York: Octagon, 1985. On copyright page: 'Third Octagon printing 1985'. Location: KK.

A 34.1.a Notes: . . . lettered 'B.'. Spelling error in title of essay on p. 64 ('MEMORIAN'). . . . Mercury ("Editorial," October 1925). . . .

A 34.1.b Additional location: RJS (binding C).
Notes: Dot above final 'e' in 'average' on p. 19, l. 18; spelling error in title of essay on p. 64 ('MEMORIAN').

A 34.1.c Errors on pp. 19 and 64 corrected. Bound like binding A of first trade printing and in medium blue cloth with dark blue stamping. Locations: GHT, KK, MBU (rebound), RJS.

A 34.1.c.ii Renumber as A 34.1.b.ii (same points on pp. 19 and 64 and evidently same paper).
Additional location: RJS (2, dj).
Add to Notes: Return card for Now and Then laid in an RJS copy.

A 36.1.a.ii Binding: . . . Spine: . . . H.L.MENCKEN . . .
Additional location: RJS (2, dj).

A 36.1.e New York: Octagon, 1985. Location: KK.

A 37.1.a Colophon: . . . YORK'.
Additional location: RJS.

A 37.1.b Additional locations: KK, GHT.
Notes: KK copy signed by HLM on title page and not limitation page, unnumbered, without box.

A 37.1.f Fourth trade printing: New York: Octagon, 1981. On copyright page: 'Second Octagon printing 1981'. Location: KK.

A 39 Typography and paper: . . . [thick-thin rule]. . . .
Notes: Delete: "(perhaps jokingly)." Add: The promotional record was presented to the EPL by Elise (Mrs. Louis) Cheslock and rerecorded on a CD by JRS for the Mencken Society in 2000.

A 40.2.a Review copy: Pale blue slip (2-1/2" x 4") laid in to trade printing: 'This book will be published: DATE: [stamped in red] OCT 24 1946 | PRICE: [stamped in red] $3.50 | Please do not release reviews until the | above date. We would appreciate two | copies of your review. | Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.' Location: GHT (dj).

A 40.2.f Second edition, sixth printing: Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins Univ., [1997]. On copyright page: 'Johns Hopkins Paperback edition 1997 | 06 05 04 03 02 01 00 99 98 97 5 4 3 2 1'. 8-7/16" x 5-1/2". Black, red, tan, gray, and white wrappers. Location: GHT.

A 40.2.g Second edition, seventh printing: Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins Univ., [1998]. On copyright page: '06 05 04 03 02 01 00 99 98 5 4 3 2'. Location: KK.

A 40.3.a Third edition, presumed first printing (1963)
Binding A: Delete.
Binding: Thick white . . . price $1.75).
Locations: KK, RJS.
Add to Notes: Thickness 3/4".

A 40.3.b Third edition, presumed second printing: New York: Vintage Books, [1963?]. Green buckram stamped in gilt, thickness 5/8". Location: GHT.

A 40.3.c Third edition, third printing: New York: Vintage Books, [1963?]. Price on wrapper $1.95, thickness 13/16". Locations: GHT, RJS.

A 40.3.d Third edition, fourth printing: Stark, Kans.: De Young, 1997. "Preface to the Revised Edition" omitted. Locations: KK, MSaT, GHT.

A 43.1.a Additional location: RJS (dj).
Review copies: . . . (2) Unsewed gatherings held loose in dust jacket, unstained, endpapers tipped in to initial and final leaves, 7-1/8" x 4-1/8". Location: RJS.

A 44.1.c Location: KK.

A 44.1.d Location: KK.

A 44.2.a Binding B: Smooth red cloth stamped in gilt on spine: 'TREATISE | ON RIGHT | AND | WRONG | H. L. MENCKEN | K. PAUL'.
Dust jacket: . . . including this book]'. Front flap: blurb, price 10s. 6d. Back flap . . .
Additional locations: RJS (2 in binding A, dj), KK (binding B, dj).

A 45.1.b Second printing: Baltimore, D. S. Thaler, 2005. Facsimile reprint in wrappers, foreword by Thaler, introduction by RJS. Limited issue of 25 copies numbered and signed by publisher and editor, 300 copies of trade issue. Locations: RJS (2), GHT (2), JRS (2), EPL.

A 49.1.a Additional location: GHT (dj).
Add to Notes: The original appearances of the chapters are listed by S. T. Joshi in Menckeniana 165.15.
Review copy: . . . (2-3/4" x 3") . . .

A 49.1.j On copyright page: 'EIGHTH PRINTING, NOVEMBER, 1973'. Location: KK.

A 49.2.a Second edition, only printing (1944)
Add to Notes: Published February1944. Cf. John Jamieson, Books for the Army: The Army Library Service in the Second World War (New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 1950).

A 51.1.a Additional location: GHT (dj).
Add to Notes: The original appearances of the chapters are listed by S. T. Joshi in Menckeniana 165.15-16.

A 53.1.b Noted in both blue and green cloth. Additional location: KK.

A 53.1.c Noted in both blue and red cloth. Additional location: KK.

A 53.1.d On copyright page: 'Fourth Printing, May 1952'. Location: KK.

A 53.1.i On copyright page: 'Eighth printing, September 1966'. Location: KK.

A 53.1.j Tenth printing: New York: Knopf, 1976. On copyright page: 'Ninth printing, January 1976'. Location: KK.

A 53.1.l Twelfth printing: New York: Knopf, 1978. On copyright page: 'Eleventh printing, December 1978'. Location: KK.

A 53.1.m.i Location: KK.

A 53.1.o New York: Knopf, 1984. On copyright page: 'Thirteenth printing, April 1984'. Location: KK.

A 53.1.p On copyright page: 'Fourteenth printing, August 1985'. Location: KK.

A 53.1.q On copyright page: 'Fifteenth printing, July 1987'. Location: KK.

A 53.1.r On copyright page: 'Sixteenth printing, June 1989'. Location: KK.

A 53.1.s On copyright page: 'Seventeenth printing, May 1991'. Location: KK.

A 53.1.t Twentieth printing: New York: Knopf, 1997. On copyright page: 'Eighteenth printing, August 1997'. Location: KK.

A 53.1.u Twenty-first printing: New York: Knopf, 2001. On copyright page: 'Nineteenth printing, June 2001'. Location: KK.

A 54.1.a Additional location: GHT (dj).
Add to Notes: The original appearances of the chapters are listed by S. T. Joshi in Menckeniana 165.16.

A 54.1.c On copyright page: 'Third Printing, June 1943'. Location: KK.

A 54.2.a Second edition, only printing (1943)
Notes: Published September 1943, 50,000 copies. EPL copy signed and dated 1943 by Mencken. Adler 17; cf. John Jamieson, Books for the Army: The Army Library Service in the Second World War (New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 1950).

A 56.1.d.ii Illustration of title page omits the RKP label.
Title page: A label, attached by its left side, covers all or part of the date along with the rest of the imprint, which is '1948 | ALFRED A. KNOPF | NEW YORK | [Borzoi device]'. Two varieties of label: (1) 1-1/16" x 4", 'LONDON | ROUTLEDGE AND KEGAN PAUL LTD. | BROADWAY HOUSE, 68-74 CARTER LANE, E.C.4'; (2) 1-1/16" x 4-1/2", no period after 'LTD'.
Additional locations: KK, RJS, GHT.

A 56.1.f Location: KK.

A 56.1.h Wove paper; thickness 1-7/16".

A 56.1.j.ii Tenth printing, English issue: London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, [1962]. Label glued over imprint below parallel rules on title page (1-1/2" x 5"): 'ROUTLEDGE & KEGAN PAUL LTD | Broadway House, 68-74 Carter Lane | London, E.C.4'. Location: GHT.

A 56.1.k Eleventh printing: same title page as eighth printing, for Book-of-the-Month Club. Otherwise as presently described, except no number on spine of dust jacket. Thickness 1-5/8". Location: GHT (dj).

A 56.1.kx As tenth printing, for Book-of-the-Month Club. Wove paper; blindstamped dot on back cover; 'W' on copyright page; '4322' on spine of dust jacket. Locations: GHT (dj), Harv, MB, RJS (dj).

A 56.1.n On copyright page: 'Eleventh Printing, January 1975'. Location: KK.

A 56.1.o Location: KK.

A 56.1.r Eighteenth printing: New York: Knopf, 1988. On copyright page: 'Fourteenth Printing, March 1988'. Location: KK.

A 57.1.a Add to Notes: A KK copy (binding A, dj B) was inscribed to Edgar Kemler on 4 October 1946, well before the publication date, indicating that jacket A may have been the later state. Freak copy: both sets of endpapers precede half title (KK, binding A, dj B).
Additional location of review copy: KK (binding A, dj B).

A 57.1.d Fourth printing: [Irving-on-Hudson, N.Y.: Nockian Society, n.d.]. Cover title: '$5.95 | [gothic] [gray lettering on white background in slanting gray field] Truth | in | a | Jest | [black] Christmas Story | [roman] an essay | by H. L. Mencken | and | WASHINGTON, (D.C.) | the AMERICAN MECCA | an essay | by Frank Chodorov | A SUB ROSA PUBLICATION'. "Excerpts from selections and arrangements by Robert M. Thornton, published by the Nockian Society, Irving-on-Hudson, N. Y." (p. I). Latest date mentioned in text is 1986 (p. 1). Photoreproduction (repaginated) of Christmas Story on pp. 3-37; illustrations in black and white. 8-13/16" x 5-13/16". White glossy wrappers printed in black and gray. Location: KK.

*A 59.1.a.i Contents: . . . Mencken | [eight titles] . . .
Additional location: LC ('RECEIVED | MAR 18 1948 | COPYRIGHT OFFICE').

A 59.1.a.ii Title page: A label (1-1/16" x 4") covers the Knopf imprint: 'LONDON . . .
Additional locations: RJS, KK, GHT.

A 59.1.e Wove paper; thickness 1-5/8".

A 59.1.g.ii Seventh printing, English issue: London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, [1962]. Label glued over imprint below parallel rules on title page (1-1/2" x 5"): 'ROUTLEDGE & KEGAN PAUL LTD | Broadway House, 68-74 Carter Lane | London, E.C.4'. Location: GHT.

A 59.1.h Eighth printing: same title page as fifth printing, for Book-of-the-Month Club. Otherwise as presently described, except no number on spine of dust jacket. Thickness 1-5/8". Location: GHT (dj).

A 59.1.hx As seventh printing, for Book-of-the-Month Club. Wove paper; blindstamped dot on back cover; 'W' on copyright page; '4322' on spine of dust jacket. Locations: GHT (dj), Harv, MB.

A 59.1.i On copyright page: 'seventh printing, January 1967'. Location: KK.

A 59.1.k On copyright page: 'Eighth Printing, January 1975'. Location: KK.

A 59.1.n Fourteenth printing: New York: Knopf, 1985. On copyright page: 'Tenth Printing, September 1985'. Location: KK.

A 59.1.o Fifteenth printing: New York: Knopf, 1990. On copyright page: 'Eleventh Printing, March 1990'. Location: KK.

A 61.1.a Dust jacket: . . . a Mencken [lower case represents small caps]. . .
Review copies: . . . (2) Trade printing with red and black review slip (6-3/4" x 4-3/4") dated 13 June 1949 laid in. Location: KK.

A 61.1.i On copyright page: 'NINTH PRINTING, JANUARY 1976'. Location: KK.

A 61.1.l On copyright page: 'ELEVENTH PRINTING, JANUARY 1981'. Location: KK.

A 61.1.m . . . 8" x 5-1/8" x 1-1/4". . . . and blue; price $7.95. Locations: GHT, KK.

A 61.1.n-o Second and third Vintage Books printings as first, but 1-1/8" thick, prices $8.95, $12.95. The third may instead be a reissue of the second. Locations: GHT, KK.

A 61.1.p-w Six stated Vintage Books printings are indicated by the lowest in a line of numbers, beginning with '579864', added to copyright page. The seventh evidently begins a line in a new style: '13579B86420'; the eighth drops the '0' (KK).

A 62.1.a Review copies: (1) . . . dust jacket A or B), . . . May 21, 1956 [or (red) 'MAY 21 1956'] . . . Locations: GHT (2 in dj), KK . . .

A 62.1.e Fifth printing: Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins Univ., [1997]. On copyright page: 'Johns Hopkins Paperbacks edition, 1997 | 06 05 04 03 02 01 00 99 98 97 5 4 3 2 1'. 8-7/16" x 5-1/2". Pictorial wrappers in green, white, light brown, and black. Locations: GHT, OCl, MB (3).

A 63.1.a Under Review copy change 'handwritten' to 'handwritten or typed'. Additional location: KK.

A 63.3.b. Third edition, second printing: Chicago and London: Univ. of Chicago, [1988]. On copyright page: '93 92 91 90 89 88 2 3 4 5'. Location: KK.

A 64.1.a Review copy: Trade printing with laid-in slip (6" x 3-3/4"), printed in blue: 'This book | is sent to you with our compliments. | We would appreciate receiving | two copies of any mention of it | which you may publish. | But no review should appear | before publication date which is | OCT 20 1958 [stamped in red] | [Borzoi Books logo and Knopf address in two lines]'. Locations: GHT, KK.

A 64.1.d Fourth printing: New York: Octagon, 1985. On copyright page: 'Third Octagon printing 1985'. Location: KK.

A 65.1.a Additional location: LC (no date).
Review copies: . . . (2) Trade printing with laid-in slip: 'This book | is sent to you with our compliments. | We would appreciate receiving | two copies of any mention of it | which you may publish. | But no review should appear | before publication date which is | SEP 12 1961 [stamped in red] | [Borzoi Books logo and Knopf address in two lines]'. Location: KK.

A 65.1.c Paperback review copy has slip and brochure laid in.

A 66.1.a Additional locations: GHT (dj), LC (no date).

A 67.1.a Additional location: LC (no date).

A 67.1.b On copyright page: 'Copyright © 1987 . . . | . . . | 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1'.

A 67.1.c Third printing: Washington, D.C.: Gateway Editions, [1987?]. On copyright page: 'Copyright © 1987 . . . | . . . | 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2'. Location: KK.

A 67.1.d Fourth printing: Washington, D.C.: Gateway Editions, [January 2001]. On copyright page: 'Copyright © 1987 . . . | . . . | 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 [sic]'. Mention of Nolte's 1999 death on back cover. Location: KK.

A 71.1.a Add to Notes: "Interview with Donald H. Kirkley" transcribed from the recording Henry L. Mencken Interviewed (Library of Congress, 1948; PL18-PL19); available also on a CD distributed by JRS for the Mencken Society and as H. L. Mencken Speaking on a Caedmon record (TC-1082) and Audio-Forum cassette (AFO175). Quotations from it had been woven into the essay "A Breath of Smoky Air" in John Simon, Acid Test (New York: Stein and Day, [1963]), pp. 277-79. Adler 18; S 1. 26; S 2.9, 22 . . .

A 72.1.a Review copy: Trade printing with laid-in slips: (1, 5-3/8" x 4-1/4") '[under The New Republic Book Company / Dutton letterhead, specific information typed in] Title: MENCKEN'S LAST CAMPAIGN: | H.L. Mencken on the 1948 Campaign | Author: Edited with an Introduction | by Joseph C. Goulden | Publication date: July 13, 1976 | Price: $8.95 | (Kindly send us two copies of any review | you publish or broadcast of this book.) | Distributed by E. P. Dutton'; (2, 12-1/8" x 8-1/2") '[same letterhead as previous] FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE | FROM: Ralph Sagalyn | (202) 331-1250 | [red] Mencken's | Last Campaign | [black] Edited with an Introduction by | Joseph C. Goulden | [red, eight-line quotation from Goulden] | [review from Publishers Weekly in two columns]'. Location: KK.

A 73.1.c Third printing?: Same title page as A 73.1.a-b. Hardbound printing, evidently for a book club: thinner paper (1-11/16" thick as opposed to 1-3/4" for the first two printings), same page size, and dust jacket corresponds to the wrappers of A 73.1.b. The boards and endpapers are darker than in the first trade printing. The records of Random House, successor to Dial, say only that the title was included in the Book-of-the-Month Club in December 1976. Freak copy: covers upside down. Locations: GHT (dj), KK (2 in dj).

A 73.1.d Fourth printing?: Same title page as A 73.1.a-c. On copyright page: 'Second printing 1977'. Thickness 2". Copies noted with spine stamped all in gilt, and in gilt and orange-gilt. Location: KK (2).

A 74.1.a Dust jacket B: Same but with sticker on front flap (1-3/16" x 1/2"): '[red] ASSOC. UNIV. PRESS | NET | [black] £24.50'.
Additional locations: GHT (dj A), KK (dj B).

A 75.1.b Second printing: [University, Ala.:] Univ. of Alabama, [2003]. No new date on copyright page; date from Amazon.com. Paperback. Locations: GHT, KK.

A 76.1.a Additional location: LC (29[?] December 1986).
Review copy: All particular information on slip is in black, the rest red, on gray-white paper; additional location: GHT.

A 77.1.a Add to Review copy: Copy noted enclosed in plastic-coated dust jacket comprised of front and spine of subsequent trade jacket. Folded sheet inserted (11" x 8-1/2"), announcing 'Publication date: 1/19/87 [typed]' to left of fourth line: 'Literature | 6 x 9 | 320 pages | $17.95t / ISBN 0-07-041505-6 | Marketing Plan: | 15,000-copy first printing | $15,000 advertising/promotion campaign | 100% co-op advertising available'. Location: KK.

A 78.1.a.i Publication: . . . Not registered at Copyright Office.
Additional locations: RJS, KK.
Add to Notes: KK copy signed but not numbered.

A 79.1.a.i Review copies: . . . (2) Trade paperback with slip laid in (8-1/2" x 5-7/16"): 'REVIEW COPY / BLACK SPARROW PRESS | [in box] Title: JOHN FANTE & H. L. MENCKEN: | A PERSONAL CORRESPONDENCE 1930-1952 | Author: Edited by Michael Moreau | Consulting Editor Joyce Fante | Publication Date: August 25, 1989 | Price: ISBN: | $10.00 (paper) 0-87685-766-7 | $20.00 (cloth) 0-87685-767-5 | Pages 178 | Illustrated with 22 photographs. | We take pleasure in sending this book for review. We would appre- | . . . | [below box, device and address]'. Location: GHT.

A 82.1.a.i Additional location: LC (1 May 1990).

A 83.1.e-f Presumed fifth and later printings: New York etc.: Doubleday, [n.d.]. Second and subsequent paperback Anchor Book printings indicated by lowest number on copyright page. Latest noted is third (KK).

A 84.1.a Review copies: (1) . . . January 1993 and no tentative price, or with sticker indicating date of 29 January 1993 and price of $30. Locations: GHT, KK. . . .

A 86.1.a Additional location: LC (30 January 1995).
Review copies: . . . (2) Trade printing with slip (3" x 4-7/16") laid in: '[Borzoi device amidst rule] | A SECOND MENCKEN CHRESTOMATHY | by | H.L. Mencken | Publication date: 30 January 1995 $30 | [rule] | Alfred A [sic] Knopf [square dot] 201 East 50th Street [square dot] New York 10022'. Location: GHT.

A 87.1.a.i Publication: . . . Not registered at Copyright Office.
Additional location: GHT.

A 88 FROM BALTIMORE TO BOHEMIA
A 88.1.a Only edition, only printing (2001)

Title page: 'From Baltimore | to Bohemia | The Letters of H. L. Mencken | and George Sterling | Edited by | S. T. Joshi | [FD device] | Madison [raised dot] Teaneck | Fairleigh Dickinson University Press | London: Associated University Presses'

Copyright page: '© 2001 by Associated University Presses, Inc. | [fifteen lines reserving rights and providing addresses] | Permission to print letters and other documents by H. L. Mencken has been | granted by the Enoch Pratt Free Library, owners of the literary rights to the | writings of H. L. Mencken. Permission to print letters by George Sterling has | been granted by the Bancroft Library, University of California at Berkeley, | owners of the literary rights to the writings of George Sterling. | The paper used in this publication meets the requirements of the American | National Standard for Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials | Z39.48-1984. | [fourteen lines of Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data] | PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA'

9-1/8" x 6-1/16": [1-4] 5 [6] 7-17 [18] 19 [20-24] 25-284 [285-88] = 288 pp.

[1-9]16 = 144 leaves.

Contents: p. 1: half title; p. 2: blank; p. 3: title; p. 4: copyright; p. 5: 'Contents'; p. 6: blank; pp. 7-16: 'Introduction'; p. 17: 'A Note on This Edition'; p. 18: blank; p. 19: 'Abbreviations'; p. 20: blank; p. 21: half title; p. 22: blank; p. 23: divisional half title: 'The Letters'; p. 24: blank; pp. 25-245: text: letters 1914-1926 and 'Undated Letters'; pp. 246-49: 'Appendix: Mencken on Sterling's Death'; pp. 250-72: 'Notes'; pp. 273-75: 'Bibliography'; pp. 276-84: 'Index'; pp. 285-88: blank.

Typography and paper: 7-3/4" (7-7/16") x 4-7/16"; 39 lines per page. Running heads: recto, 'INTRODUCTION' (pp. 9-15), year (pp. 27-243), 'APPENDIX: MENCKEN ON STERLING'S DEATH' (pp. 247-49), 'NOTES' (pp. 251-71), 'BIBLIOGRAPHY' (p. 275), 'INDEX' (pp. 277-83); verso, 'INTRODUCTION' (pp. 8-16), 'FROM BALTIMORE TO BOHEMIA' (pp. 30-248), 'NOTES' (pp. 252-72), 'BIBLIOGRAPHY' (p. 274), 'INDEX' (pp. 278-84). Wove paper.

Binding: Black paper-covered boards (V cloth texture) stamped in gilt on spine: '[reading down] Joshi From Baltimore to Bohemia | [FD device]'. Trimmed, unstained. White end papers.

Dust jacket: White paper. Front: '[flush right, in red, to right of black and white photo of Mencken bordered on right and bottom in red] From | Baltimore | to | Bohemia | [centered, red] The Letters of H. L. Mencken | and George Sterling | [flush left, in red, to left of black and white photo of Sterling bordered in red on left and top] Edited by | S. T. Joshi'. Spine as on cover except letters red, device black. Back: 'About the Author' | [fourteen-line biography] | 'Fairleigh Dickinson University Press | London: Associated University Presses' | [bar code]. Front flap: blurb. Back flap: blurb concluded, LC and ISBN numbers, photo credits.

Publication: Published 5 April 2001. $45.00. 600 copies printed.

Printing: Set by Coghill Composition Co., Richmond, Va.; printed and bound by Book-mart Press, North Bergen, N.J.

Locations: RJS (dj), GHT (dj), MChB (dj), LC (28 February 2001).

Notes: The appendix reprints "Good Life, Good Death, Says Mencken" (San Francisco Chronicle, 18 November 1926) and letters to John Cowper Powys (11 December 1926) and Henry Dumont (20 February 1935; cf. Bode, Letters 344-45).

A 89 MENCKEN'S AMERICANA
A 89.1.a Only edition, only printing (2002)

Title page: 'Mencken's Americana | by Louis Hatchett | MERCER UNIVERSITY PRESS'

Copyright page: 'ISBN 0-86554-774-2 | MUP/H585 | ©2002 Mercer University Press | 6316 Peake Road | Macon, Georgia 31210-3960 | All rights reserved | First Edition. | Jacket and book design | by Mary-Frances Burt, Burt & Burt Studio | [infinity sign]The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements | of American National Standard for Information Sciences-Permanence of Paper | for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1992. | [Twelve lines of Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication data] | 2001005113 | Material included herein "reprinted by permission of the Enoch Pratt Free | Library in accordance with the terms of the will of H. L. Mencken."'

9" x 5-15/16": [A-H 1] 2-12 [13] 14-46 [47] 48-77 [78-79] 80-100 [101] 102-33 [134-35] 136-66 [167] 168-87 [188-89] 190-209 [210-11] 212-26 [227] 228-38 [239] 240-52 [253] 254-70 [271] 272-76 [277-80] = 288 pp.

[1-9]16 = 144 leaves.

Contents: p. A: half title; p. B: blank; p. C: title; p. D: copyright; p. E: 'For Darlene Bender'; p. F: blank; p. G: 'Table of Contents'; p. H: blank; pp. 1-12: 'Introduction' (signed 'Louis Hatchett | Henderson, Kentucky | March 24, 2001'); pp. 13-270: text; pp. 271-76: 'Notes'; pp. 277-80: blank. Blank pages in text: pp. 78, 134, 188, 210.

Typography and paper: 7-5/16" x 4"; 28 lines per page. No heads. Footers: recto, 'Introduction [vertical line, page number]' (pp. 3-11), '[year of chapter (1924-1934), vertical line, page number]' (pp. 15-269), 'Notes [vertical line, page number]' (pp. 273-75); verso, '[page number, vertical line] Mencken's Americana' (pp. 2-276). Wove paper.

Binding: Dull blue V cloth stamped in gilt on spine: '[reading down, first word in small caps] HATCHETT MENCKEN'S AMERICANA | [Mercer device]'. Trimmed, unstained. White end papers.

Dust jacket: White paper. Front: '[all printing within yellow box] [against a flag which begins on spine] [ornament] EDITED BY [ornament reversed] | [photo of Mencken as if on a stamp] | [against white background] Mencken's | Americana | [gray silhouette of crowd which begins on spine]'. Spine: '[reading down] [white, small caps] HATCHETT [black] MENCKEN'S AMERICANA | [Mercer device]'. Back: '[all against photo of Mencken and within white box showing through] American Studies | [quotations from Mencken and excerpts from the book] | [white rule showing through] | [address of Mercer University Press and bar code]'. Front flap: blurb. Back flap: blurb concluded, three-line biography of Hatchett, jacket credit.

Publication: Published January 2002. $29.95. 2000 copies printed.

Printing: Set by Burt&Burt Studio, Macon, Ga.; printed and bound by Sheridan Books, Ann Arbor, Mich.

Locations: RJS (dj), MChB, GHT (dj).

Notes: As with A 30 and A 32, the text consists of contributions to the American Mercury edited by Mencken. Each of the eleven chapters for the years 1924 to 1933 and (post-Mencken) 1934-1941 begins with a comment by Hatchett.

A 90 H. L. MENCKEN ON AMERICAN LITERATURE
A 90.1.a Only edition, only printing (2002)

Title pages: [ii] 'H. L. | Ohio University Press / Athens' || [iii] 'Mencken | on American | Literature | [ornament] Edited by S. T. Joshi' [first two words in reduced type]

Copyright page: 'Ohio University Press, Athens, Ohio 45701 | © 2002 by S. T. Joshi | Printed in the United States of America | All rights reserved | Ohio University Press books are printed on acid-free paper [infinity sign in circle] [superscript, small caps] TM | 10 09 08 07 06 05 04 03 02 5 4 3 2 1 | Permission to publish H. L. Mencken's review columns is granted by the Enoch Pratt | Free Library of Baltimore, in accordance with the terms of the will of H. L. Mencken. | Jacket photograph of H. L. Mencken by Edward Steichen reprinted with permission of | Joanna T. Steichen. | [nine lines of Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication data]'

8-15/16" x 5-7/8": [i-vi] vii-xx [xxi-ii] 1-233 [234] 235-75 [276] 277-84 [285-90] = 312 pp.

[1-2]16 [3]4 [4]16 [5]8 [6-11]16 = 156 leaves.

Contents: p. i: half title; pp. ii-iii: title; p. iv: copyright; pp. v-vi: 'Contents'; pp. vii-xviii: 'Introduction'; pp. xix-xx: 'A Note on | This Edition'; pp. xxi: half title; p. xxii: blank; pp. 1-233: text; p. 234: blank; pp. 235-44: 'Notes'; pp. 245-75: 'Glossary of Names'; p. 276: blank; pp. 277-84: 'Index'; pp. 285-90: blank.

Text: "Eight Years of Reviewing" ("The Books of the Irish"), "Books I Have Not Read" ("From the Diary of a Reviewer"), "On Reviewing" ("The Monthly Feuilleton"), "Fifteen Years of Book Reviewing" ("Fifteen Years"), "Mark Twain" ("The Burden of Humor," "Mark Twain"), "Edgar Allen Poe" ("The Mystery of Poe"), "Ralph Waldo Emerson" ("The Moonstruck Pastor"), "Henry James" ("George Bernard Shaw as a Hero," "A Stack of Novels," "Conrad, Bennett, James et al."), "Theodore Dreiser" ("A Novel of the First Rank," "Dreiser's Novel," "Adventures Among the New Novels," "A Literary Behemoth," "The Creed of a Novelist," "Dreiser in 840 Pages"), "Willa Cather" ("A Visit to a Short Story Factory," "Partly About Books," "Mainly Fiction," "Chiefly Americans," "Portrait of an American Citizen," "Three Volumes of Fiction," "Fiction Good and Bad," "The Desert Epic"), "Sherwood Anderson" ("The Creed of a Novelist," "Critics Wild and Tame," "Novels, Chiefly Bad," "Chiefly Americans," "Frank Harris and Others," "Some New Books," "Three Volumes of Fiction," "Fiction Good and Bad," "Literary Confidences"), "James Branch Cabell" ("A Sub-Potomac Phenomenon," "Critics Wild and Tame," "Mainly Fiction," "The Flood of Fiction," "The Land of the Free," "Three Gay Stories," "Cabell," "A Comedy of Fig-Leaves"), "F. Scott Fitzgerald" ("Books More or Less Amusing," "The Niagara of Novels," "Scott Fitzgerald and His Work"), "Sinclair Lewis" ("Consolation," "Portrait of an American Citizen," "'Arrowsmith'," "Man of God, American Style," "Escape and Return," "A Lady of Vision"), "John Dos Passos" ("Variations Upon a Familiar Theme," "Rambles in Fiction"), "Ernest Hemingway" ("Fiction by Adept Hands," "The Spanish Idea of a Good Time"), "Ambrose Bierce" ("Suite Elegiaque," "Bierce Emerges from the Shadows"), "Edith Wharton" ("A Road Map of the New Books," "An Overdose of Novels," "The Burden of Humor," "The Anatomy of Ochlocracy"), "William Dean Howells" ("A Nietzschean, a Swedenborgian and Other Queer Fowl," "Sufferings Among Books"), "Jack London" ("Marie Corelli's Sparring Partner," "A Review of Reviewers," "Partly About Books"), "Abraham Cahan" ("The Stream of Fiction"), "Ring Lardner" ("Ring W. Lardner," "A Humorist Shows His Teeth," "Pongo Americanus"), "Ellen Glasgow" ("Two Southern Novels," "A Southern Skeptic"), "O. Henry" ("The Best Novels of the Year"), "Will Levington Comfort" ("Novels Bad, Half-Bad and Very Bad"), "Marjorie Benton Cooke" ("Mush for the Multitude"), "Winston Churchill" ("The Sawdust Trail"), "Mary MacLane" ("The Cult of Dunsany"), "E. M. Hull" ("Notes on Books"), "Gertrude Atherton" ("Nordic Blond Art"), "Thomas Dixon, Jr." ("A Reverend Novelist"), "Some Thought on Literary Criticism" ("Critics Wild and Tame"), "Percival Pollard" ("Books to Read and Books to Avoid"), "Leon Kellner" ("The Literature of a Moral Republic"), "Wilson and Helen Follett" ("Rattling the Subconscious"), "Paul Elmer More" ("Books About Books"), "Stuart P. Sherman" ("Adventures Among Books"), "T. S. Eliot" ("The New Humanism"), "Margaret Anderson" ("Schwärmerei").

Typography and paper: 7-1/4" (6-15/16") x 4-5/16"; 36 lines per page. Running heads: recto, 'INTRODUCTION' (pp. ix-xvii), assigned essay titles (pp. 3-233), 'NOTES TO PAGES [page numbers]' (pp. 237-43), 'GLOSSARY OF NAMES' (pp. 247-75), 'INDEX' (pp. 279-83); verso, 'INTRODUCTION' (pp. viii-xviii), 'A NOTE ON THIS EDITION' (p. xx), 'THE TRAVAILS OF A BOOK REVIEWER' (pp. 2-20), 'ESTABLISHING THE CANON' (pp. 24-142), 'SOME WORTHY SECOND-RATERS' (pp. 144-74), 'TRADE GOODS' (pp. 176-208), 'SOME THOUGHTS ON LITERARY CRITICISM' (pp. 210-32), 'NOTES TO PAGES [page numbers]' (pp. 236-44), 'GLOSSARY OF NAMES' (pp. 246-74), 'INDEX' (pp. 278-84). Wove paper.

Binding: Red V cloth stamped in gilt on spine: 'S. T. | JOSHI | editor | [reading down] H. L. MENCKEN [over] on American Literature | [horizontal] [device] | OHIO'. Trimmed, unstained. Black end papers.

Dust jacket: White paper. Front: '[all over black and white photo of Mencken that extends to spine] Edited by | S. T. Joshi | [yellow] H. L. | Mencken | [red] on American | Literature'. Spine: '[white] S. T. | Joshi | editor | [reading down, yellow] H. L. MENCKEN [over, white] on American Litearture | [horizontal] [red device] | [yellow] OHIO'. Back, on yellow field: 'Literary Criticism | [six line quotation from Mencken] | [red] Ohio University Press | [photo and jacket design credits, bar code]'. Front flap: blurb. Back flap: blurb by Ray Stevens, photo of Joshi with biographical caption, address of Ohio University Press.

Publication: Published 23 May 2002. $44.95. Copyright #TX-5-550-174. 962 copies printed.

Printing: Printed and bound by Maple-Vail Book Manufacturing Group, York, Pa.

Locations: RJS (dj), MChB, GHT (dj), LC (17 June 2002).

Notes: "I have reprinted Mencken's book reviews from their original appearances in the Smart Set, American Mercury, and other magazines and newspapers, even in those few instances in which the reviews were reprinted (usually with extensive revisions) in later books by Mencken" (p. xix).

A 91 H. L. MENCKEN ON RELIGION
A 91.1.a Only edition, only printing (2002)

Title page: '[as white showing through a black box] H. L. MENCKEN | [rule] | ON RELIGION | [dark gray ornament extending to next] | [within light gray box] edited by S. T. JOSHI [lower case represents small caps] | [below boxes] [device] Prometheus Books | [double rule] | 59 John Glenn Drive | Amherst, New York 14228-2197'

Copyright page: 'All works by H. L. Mencken are reprinted by permission of the Enoch Pratt Free Library | of Baltimore, in accordance with the terms of the will of H. L. Mencken. | Published 2002 by Prometheus Books | [five lines reserving rights, seven lines of addresses] | 06 05 04 03 02 5 4 3 2 1 | [eleven lines of Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication data] | Printed in Canada on acid-free paper'

9" x 6": [1-4] 5-9 [10] 11-49 [50] 51-97 [98] 99-223 [224] 225-47 [248] 249-67 [268] 269-97 [298] 299-305 [306] 307-19 [320] 321-30 [331-36] = 336 pp.

Perfect bound.

Contents: p. 1: half title; p. 2: blank; p. 3: title; p. 4: copyright; pp. 5-9: 'CONTENTS'; p. 10: blank; pp. 11-24: 'INTRODUCTION'; pp. 25-297: text; p. 298: blank; pp. 299-305: 'NOTES'; p. 306: blank; pp. 307-19: 'GLOSSARY OF NAMES'; p. 320: blank; pp. 321-30: 'INDEX'; pp. 331-36: blank. Blank pages of text: 50, 98, 224, 248, 268.

Text: "The Schooling of a Theologian," "Confessions of a Theological Moron," "On Happiness," "What I Believe," "Immortality" (from B 90), "Nietzsche on Religion" ("The Bugaboo of the Sunday Schools"), "The Anthropomorphic Delusion," "The Black Art," "The Ascent of Man," "Hint to Theologians," "The Ghostly Fraternity," "Preachers of the Word," "The Need for an Ingersoll" ("Editorial," AM, November 1924), "Services for the Damned" ("Editorial," AM, December 1926), "Immune," "Searching Holy Writ," "The American Religion," "Quod Est Veritas?," "Religious Prejudice," "The Decline of Protestantism" ("Editorial," AM, March 1925), "Shock Troops," "The I.Q. of Holy Church," "Infants in Hell," "A Day with Billy Sunday" ("Savanarolas A-Sweat"), "Fundamentalism: Divine and Secular," "Evangelical Ignoramuses" ("Editorial," AM, November 1925), "Sister Aimée," "The Missionaries," "The Impregnable Rock," "The Spirit World," "Hooey from the Orient," "On Christian Science," "The Career of a Divinity," "The Lid Lifts Again," "Christian Science Technique," "The Tennessee Circus," "Homo Neandertalensis," "In Tennessee," "Mencken Finds Daytonians Full of Sickening Doubts about Value of Publicity," "Impossibility of Obtaining Fair Jury Ensures Scopes' Conviction, Says Mencken," "Mencken Likens Trial to Religious Orgy, with Defendant a Beelzebub," "Yearning Mountaineers' Souls Need Reconversion Nightly, Mencken Finds," "Darrow's Eloquent Appeal Wasted on Ears That Heed Only Bryan, Says Mencken," "Law and Freedom, Mencken Discovers, Yield Place to Holy Writ in Rhea County," "Mencken Declares Strictly Fair Trial Is Beyond Ken of Tennessee Fundamentalists," "Malone the Victor, Even Though Court Sides with Opponents, Says Mencken," "Battle now Over, Mencken Sees; Genesis Triumphant and Ready for New Jousts," "Tennessee in the Frying Pan," "Bryan," "Round Two," "Aftermath," "William Jennings Bryan," "Cousin Jocko," "Fides ante Intellectum," "Counter-Offensive," "Anther Inquisition Fails," "The Powers of the Air," "Science and Theology," "On Religion in Politics," "Democracy and Theocracy," "Overture to a Melodrama," "The Pastor as Statesman," "On Sunday Laws," "Venture into Therapeutics," "Vox Populi, Vox Dei," "What's the Matter with the Churches" ("Editorial," AM, May 1928), "What Is to Be Done about Divorce," "Treason in the Tabernacle," "A Gloss upon Christian Morality," "The Churches and the Depression" (from "What is Going on in the World," AM, April 1932), "Memorial Service."

Typography and paper: 7-7/16" (7-1/16") x 4-7/16"; 37 lines per page. Running heads: recto (all to left of ornament and page number, in italics, over rule), 'Contents' (pp. 7-9), 'Introduction' (pp. 13-23), 'The Beliefs of an Iconoclast' (pp. 27-49), 'Some Overviews' (pp. 53-97), 'Protestants and Catholics' (pp. 101-13), 'Fundamentalists and Evangelicals' (pp. 117-37), 'Spiritualism, Theosophy, and Christian Science' (pp. 141-59), 'The Scopes Trial' (pp. 163-223), 'Religion and Science' (pp. 227-47), 'Religion and Politics' (pp. 251-67), 'Religion and Society' (pp. 271-91), 'Memorial Service' (pp. 295-97), 'Notes' (pp. 301-05), 'Glossary of Names' (pp. 309-19), 'Index' (pp. 323-29); verso (all preceded by page number and ornament, over rule), 'CONTENTS' (pp. 6-8), 'INTRODUCTION' (pp. 12-24), 'H. L. MENCKEN ON RELIGION' (pp. 26-292), 'EPILOGUE' (pp. 294-96), 'NOTES' (pp. 300-04), 'GLOSSARY OF NAMES' (pp. 308-18), 'INDEX' (pp. 322-30). Wove paper.

Binding: Black paper-covered boards and spine, stamped in gilt on spine: '[reading down] H. L. MENCKEN [over rule over] ON RELIGION | edited by S. T. JOSHI [lower case represents small caps] | [horizontal] [device] | Prometheus | Books'. Trimmed, unstained. White end papers.

Dust jacket: White paper. Front: '[beneath black and white photo of Mencken, within black box, yellow] H. L. MENCKEN | [gray rule] | [yellow] ON RELIGION | [dark gray ornament extending to next] | [on gray] edited by S. T. JOSHI [lower case represents small caps]'. Spine, on yellow field: '[reading down] H. L. MENCKEN [over rule over] ON RELIGION | [horizontal photo] | [reading down] edited by S. T. JOSHI [lower case represents small caps] | [horizontal] [device] | Prometheus | Books'. Back, showing through black: '[white] [eleven-line quotation from Mencken] | [nineteen-line blurb] | [black-on-white bar code and, in yellow, four lines of addresses of publisher]'. Front flap: blurb. Back flap: continuation of blurb, biography of Joshi, photo credit.

Publication: Published 18 September 2002. $29.00. Copyright #TX-5-904-879.

Printing:

Locations: RJS (dj), MChB, GHT (dj), LC (27 September 2002).

Notes: "Even in the few instances in which these articles were later reprinted (usually with revisions) in various of Mencken's books, I have chosen to use the original versions as more accurately reflecting his views on the date they were written" (p. 23).

Review copy: As above, with two inserts: statement (11" x 8-1/2") on Prometheus Books letterhead describing book and author, contact person Jill Maxick, publication date 8 or 31 October 2002; postcard (recto headed 'Here is your Review Copy') with checklist and space for comments. Locations: KK, GHT.

A 92 MENCKEN'S AMERICA
A 92.1.a Only edition, only printing (2004)

Title page: 'H. L. Mencken | Mencken's | AMERICA | [the rest to left of typewriter on stand] EDITED BY | S. T. JOSHI | Ohio University Press [raised dot] Athens'

Copyright page: 'Ohio University Press, Athens, Ohio 45701 | © 2004 by S. T. Joshi | Printed in the United States of America | All rights reserved | Ohio University Press books are printed on acid-free paper [infinity sign in circle followed by raised 'TM'] | 12 11 10 09 08 07 06 05 04 5 4 3 2 1 | Permission to publish H. L. Mencken's articles is granted | by the Enoch Pratt Free Library of Baltimore, in accordance | with the terms of the will of H. L. Mencken. | Cover, title page, and chapter opening art courtesy of Tom Chalkley. | [thirteen lines of Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data]'

9" x 5-15/16": [i-iv] v-xx 1-5 [6] 7-235 [236] 237-44 = 264 pp.

[1-6]16 [7]4 [8-9]16 = 132 leaves.

Contents: p. i: half title; p. ii: blank; p. iii: title; p. iv: copyright; pp. v-vi: 'Contents'; pp. vii-xviii: 'Introduction'; pp. xix-xx: 'A Note on This Edition'; pp. 1-190: text; pp. 191-202: 'Notes'; pp. 203-34: 'Glossary of Names'; p. 235: 'Sources'; p. 236: blank; pp. 237-44: 'Index'. Blank page of text: 6.

Text: "On Living in the United States," "The American," "The American: His Morals," "The American: His Language," "The American: His Ideas of Beauty," "The American: His Freedom," "The American: His New Puritanism," "Good Old Baltimore," "Maryland: Apex of Normalcy," "The City of Seven Sundays," "Along the Potomac," "San Francisco: A Memory," "San Francisco," "New York," "Meditation in E Minor," "What Ails the Republic," "The American Politician" ("Politics"), "Evangelical Pastors" ("Editorial," AM, November 1925), "Church and State" ("Editorial," AM, October 1928), "The American Religion" ("Editorials: The American Religion," AM, May 1931), "The Burden of Credulity," "Notes on Negro Strategy," "Puritanism as a Literary Force," "The American Tradition," "The Low-Down on Hollywood," "Palmy Days for Authors" ("Editorial," AM, September 1927), "Testament."

Typography and paper: 7-11/16" x 4-5/8"; 40 lines per page. No heads. Footers: recto, 'INTRODUCTION [page number]' (pp. ix-xvii), 'ON LIVING IN THE UNITED STATES [page number]' (pp. 3-5), '[essay titles]' (pp. 9-69, 73-111, 113-45, 149-83, 187-89), 'NOTES TO PAGES [page numbers]' (pp. 193-201), 'GLOSSARY OF NAMES' (pp. 205-33), 'INDEX' (pp. 239-43); verso, 'CONTENTS' (p. vi), 'INTRODUCTION' (pp. viii-xviii), 'A NOTE ON THIS EDITION' (p. xx), 'PROLOGUE' (pp. 2-4), '[chapter titles]', (pp. 8-190), 'NOTES TO PAGES [page numbers]' (pp. 192-202), 'GLOSSARY OF NAMES' (pp. 204-34), 'INDEX' (pp. 238-44). Wove paper.

Binding A: Maroon V cloth stamped in gilt. Front: 'Mencken's | AMERICA'. Spine: '[reading down] Mencken's AMERICA H. L. Mencken | [horizontal] [device] | OHIO'. Trimmed, unstained. Dark blue end papers.

Binding B: Heavy white paper wrappers. Front and spine like dust jacket except blue stripe and second white stripe narrower. Back, over continuations of the stripes: '[as white showing through blue] American Literature | [material from front jacket flap] | [four-line blurb on A 90 from Atlantic Monthly in pale maroon] | [five-line quotation from HLM in blue] | [pale maroon] Ohio University Press [bar code over drawing and design credits]'. Trimmed, unstained. No end papers.

Dust jacket: White paper. Front: '[as white showing through blue stripe] Mencken's | [light blue] AMERICA | [maroon] H. L. Mencken | [five caricatures of HLM at typewriter] | [maroon stripe] | [blue] Edited by S. T. Joshi | [maroon stripe]'. Spine: '[reading down] [as white showing through blue stripe] Mencken's [maroon on white] AMERICA [maroon stripe] [blue on white] H. L. Mencken | [horizontal, as pale maroon showing through maroon stripe] [device] | OHIO'. Back, over continuations of the blue, white, and maroon stripes: '[pale blue] American Literature | [nine-line quotation credited to HLM] | [blue] Ohio University Press | [bar code]'. Front flap: HLM quotation and blurb. Back flap: biography of Joshi, address of OUP, jacket credits to Tom Chalkley (drawing), Lisa Pazdric (design).

Publication: Published 23 February 2004. $22.95 (paperback), $49.95 (cloth). Copyright #TX-5-926-929. 1264 copies of paperback, 399 copies of clothbound printed.

Printing: Printed and bound by Thomson-Shore, Inc., Dexter, Michigan.

Locations: RJS (binding A, dj), FFlN (binding A), GHT (bindings A [dj] and B), KK (binding B), LC (18 February 2004, binding A).

Notes: "This book contains a wide sampling of H. L. Mencken's writings--most of them uncollected--on American Culture. A few items have appeared in Mencken's books in different form. . . . In these cases, I have gone back to the original appearances in magazines or newspapers because of their historical interest and because these versions are more capable of standing independently than their later revisions" (p. xix).

Review copy: Like the copy in binding B, but with notice on front: '[white on black] To be published in February 2004 | by OHIO UNIVERSITY PRESS | UNCORRECTED ADVANCE | READING COPY'. Further information and quotation in two columns on back. Index omitted. Location: KK.

A 93 A.K.A. H. L. MENCKEN
A 93.1.a Only edition, only printing (2005)

Title page: 'a.k.a. H.L. Mencken [last six lower case larger than first three] | Selected | pseudonymous | writings | Compiled and edited by | S.L. Harrison | Wolf Den Books'

Copyright page: 'a.k.a. H. L. Mencken | Selected pseudonymous writings | of H. L. Mencken | ISBN: 0-9708035-4-0 | Reprinted by permission of the Enoch Pratt Free Library, | Baltimore, in accordance with the terms of the bequest of | H. L. Mencken. | Copyright © 2005 | by S. L. Harrison | All Rights Reserved. | Printed in the United States of America. | [twelve lines of Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data]'

9" x 6": [i-iii] iv-viii [1] 2-184 = 192 pp.

Perfect bound.

Contents: p. i: half title; p. ii: 'Books by S. L. Harrison | [seven titles]'; p. iii: title; p. iv: copyright; pp. v-vi: 'Contents'; pp. vii-viii: 'Acknowledgments'; pp. 1-2: 'Foreword'; pp. 3-158: text; pp. 159-60: 'Mencken's Many Identities'; pp. 161-62: 'Owen Hatteras'; pp. 163-77: 'Bibliography: H.L. Mencken's | Pseudonymous Writings'; pp. 178-79: 'Selected References'; p. 180: blank; p. 181: biographies of Mencken and Harrison; pp. 182-84: blank.

Text (with introductory comments in each of the four sections: ('Early Work') "Loudon Park Cemetery," "The New-Born Baby," ('Verse') "To Rudyard Kipling," "Song," "Invocation," ('Leslie's Monthly') "Charles J. Bonaparte," "Arthur Pue Gorman,"* "James, Cardinal Gibbons,"* "Marketing Wild Animals,"* ('The Smart Set') "Post-Impressions of Cities,"* "Ah, Che La Morte!,"* "Clubs,"* "Thoughts on Mortality,"* "Is Civilization, Then, a Failure?,"* "Neapolitan Nights,"* "Post-Impressions of Poets,"* "A Snapshot of an Ideal Husband,"* "Nowell,"* "The Deathbed,"* "The Bleeding Heart,"* "The Scholar,"* "The Puritan,"* "Degenerate Days,"* "A Panorama of Babies," "The Window of Horrors," "Unmentionables,"* "The Hypocrite,"* "A Footnote on the Duel of Sex," "Along the Potomac," "A Panorama of Idiots,"* "Things I Remember,"* "Ad Imaginem Dei Creavit Illum,"* "The Cat and His Shadow,"* "Melomania,"* "Dianthus Caryophyllus,"* "A Panorama of Holy Clerks,"* "John Strom, Thrice Doctor."*

Typography and paper: 7-3/8" x 4" (prose text in two columns, both 1-7/8" wide); 38 lines per page. No heads. Wove paper.

Binding: Heavy white paper wrappers. Front, recto: '[at left, column of fifteen pseudonyms in green; at right, as white showing through a green field with jagged left edge:] a.k.a. H. L. Mencken [last six lower case larger than first three] | Selected | pseudonymous | writings | of H. L. Mencken | Compiled and edited | by S. L. Harrison'. Spine: '[reading down, green] a.k.a. H.L. Mencken [black] edited by S. L. Harrison Wolf Den'. Back, verso: 'Poetry and Fiction by the Sage of Baltimore | [six-line blurb in green] | [in black, six-line biography of Harrison to right of photo] | [to left of bar code] Wolf Den Books | US $16.95/CAN $$22.95'. Front verso and back recto blank. Trimmed, unstained. No end papers.

Publication: Published November 2005. $16.95. 1071 copies printed.

Printing: Printed and bound by Thomson-Shore, Inc., Dexter, Michigan.

Locations: RJS, MChB, GHT.

AA 1 SELECTED PREJUDICES
1926

Title page: 'SELECTED PREJUDICES | by | H. L. MENCKEN | [JC DEVICE] | LONDON | JONATHAN CAPE 30 BEDFORD SQUARE'

On copyright page: 'FIRST PUBLISHED IN VARIOUS | VOLUMES 1922-1925 | REPRINTED IN THE TRAVELLERS' LIBRARY 1926'.

Contents: "Note" (by Mencken, dated 'SCHLOSS PILSNER, | NEAR BALTIMORE, MARYLAND. | 1926.') . . .

[1-4] 5-7 [8-10] 11-77 [78-80] 81-165 [166-68] 169-201 [202-04] 205-55 [256]. 6-13/16" x 4-5/8". Blue cloth stamped in gilt on spine, blindstamped on back; dust jacket.

Publication: Published April 1926 (ECB 12.1037). 3s6d. 9671 copies of Cape printings sold.

Locations: GHT (dj), RJS, EPL, BL (15 APR 26), Bod (APR | 26 | 1926).

Notes: . . . English readers. Post card for subscription to Now & Then laid in to GHT copy. A paperbound copy titled Prejudices in EPL ('MCMXXV' on copyright page; Mencken's "Note" dated 12 September 1925) was the basis for Adler's entry, but it has not been located elsewhere and is evidently a trial or proof printing. Adler 12, 13bot.

Other editions and printings: Second printing in 1926; third in 1927; fourth in 1928; fifth in 1930 as Selected Prejudices: First Series; sixth (1931), seventh (1935), and eighth (1937) as same.

AA 2 Other editions and printings: Later printings in 1931, 1932, 1934 (catalogues of either 200 or 213 titles), 1937 (NUC).

AA 3 . . . "Bryan" ("In Memoriam: W. J. B."). . . .

AA 5 Other editions and printings: . . . no longer stated: with catalog in rear up to V-152, prices of $1.45 and $1.65; with catalog up to V-360, prices of $1.95, $2.45, $2.95, $3.95. Later ones have the indications 'D9876543210' and 'D987654321' after the copyright notices. . . . numbers on copyright page. Latest noted is tenth printing.

AA 6 Other editions and printings: . . . ; third in October 1959; fourth in March 1961; fifth in April 1962. Later undated printings include Random House in the imprint; prices $1.65, $2.95 (copy noted with sticker: '£1.00 nett | WILDWOOD HOUSE'), $4.95; one of them bound in slate blue buckram stamped in gilt and green, 'BUCKRAM | REINFORCED | V-58' on spine. A later printing has the indication 'C9876543210'. Reprinted . . .

AA 7.1 Other editions and printings: . . . no publication date. Review copy of first printing has slip laid in (publication date 20 November 1963). . . . 1967; third in March 1971; fourth in December 1973; fifth in December 1974; sixth in July 1977; seventh in October 1979; eighth in March 1986. . . . June 1977; third in April 1979; fourth in July 1980; fifth in February 1982; sixth in July 1985; seventh in March 1986 . . . .

AA 7.2 . . . Maroon cloth stamped in gilt . . . .

AA 8 Other editions and printings: . . . third in November 1973. . . . paperback ($6.95). Second printing thus has price of $9.95, third $10.95. Fourth and later Vintage Book printings indicated by lowest in a row of numbers on copyright page. Latest noted is fourth printing.

AA 9 Publication: $1.50. . . . Notes: . . . Menckeniana 47.27.

AA 13 Other editions and printings: . . . fourth in December 1980. . . . paperback ($4.95). Presumed second printing thus has price of $7.95.

*AA 14 A RELIGIOUS ORGY IN TENNESSEE
2006

Title page: 'A | Religious | Orgy | in | Tennessee | A Reporter's Account of | the Scopes Monkey Trial | H. L. Mencken | [device beside next two lines] MELVILLE HOUSE PUBLISHING | HOBOKEN, NEW JERSEY'

On copyright page: No date indicated.

Contents: "Introduction by Art Winslow," "The Tennessee Circus," "Homo Neanderthalensis," "In Tennessee," "Mencken Finds Daytonians . . .," "Impossibility of Obtaining Fair Jury . . .," "Mencken Likens Trial . . .," "Yearning Mountaineers' Souls . . .," "Darrow's Eloquent Appeal . . .," "Law and Freedom . . .," "Mencken Declares . . .," "Malone the Victor . . .," "Battle Now Over . . .," "Tennessee in the Frying Pan," "Bryan," "Round Two," "Aftermath," "To Expose a Fool," "Appendix: The Examination of William Jennings Bryan by Clarence Darrow."

[i-viii] ix-xxii [xxiii-iv 1-2] 3-9 [10] 11-17 [18] 19-25 [26] 27-33 [34] 35-59 [60] 61-87 [88] 89-109 [110] 111-17 [118] 119-25 [126] 127-35 [136-46] 147-206 [207-08]. 7-1/2" x 5-1/2". White wrappers printed in black and gray.

Publication: Published September 2006 (Global BIP).

Location: RJS.

Notes: All articles previously collected except "To Expose a Fool" (American Mercury, October 1925).

B 10 7-9/16" x 5-1/2". Additional location: RJS.

B 12.2
[cover title, first letter of first four lines orange] What | Reviewers | Are Saying | About | [orange] THE | PRODIGAL | JUDGE | [black] [double rule] | THE BOBBS-MERRILL COMPANY | University Square [over] INDIANAPOLIS PUBLISHERS Union Square [over] NEW YORK

5-3/4" x 3-3/8". Self wrappers. Locations: InU-Li. Not in Alder.

[orange] 'H. L. MENCKEN IN BALTIMORE SUN', p. 3. One sentence.

B 17 . . . 8-5/8" x 5-13/16". . . . Additional location: RJS (2). . . . The 1924 edition by James K. Reeve (Franklin, O.: Reeve, 1924), p. 16, has a statement regarding the policy of the (new) American Mercury.

B 18 Two bindings: (1) cloth and (2) buckram, same size and stamping. Locations: GHT (2, first state of binding, both states of dj), InU-Li (2, both states of binding, second-state dj on first-state binding), RJS (first states of binding and dj). Adler 344 (misdated 1913); Daniel Boice, The Mitchell Kennerley Imprint: A Descriptive Bibliography (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1996), pp. 118-19.

B 20 Copies noted in light brown wrappers printed in red, untrimmed. Additional locations: RJS (2), KK.

B 21 Reprinted [Temecula, Cal.: Reprint Services, 1988].

B 23.1 . . . 323-26; reprinted as introduction and first three plays from the same plates in the 1935 ML Giant G18 Eleven Plays of Henrik Ibsen (first printing: blue or rust cloth covers stamped in silver, no device on spine; no date on copyright page, which has a catalogue with first seventeen ML Giant titles; the remaining plays are from the plates of the other two ML Ibsens [Gordon B. Neavill]); The Plays of Henrik Ibsen, Authorized Translation (New York: Tudor, [February 1938]); and Eleven Plays of Henrik Ibsen (New York: Coronet, n.d.). . . .

B 23.2 Also blue buckram stamped in black and gilt, 7" x 4-11/16". Additional location: KK.

B 24 . . . reprinted 1926, 1928, 1930.

B 24A THE PROFITS OF RELIGION OFFPRINT (1918?)
[all within double rule box, outer rule thick] The Profits of Religion | [thick-thin rule] | Sixteen Pages From a Book by | UPTON SINCLAIR | Reprinted at the Suggestion of Eugene V. Debs | [letter from Debs within box] | This pamphlet is for sale at actual cost. Price, 10 copies, 20 cts.; | per 100 copies, $1.50; per 1,000 copies, $13.00 | Address: Upton Sinclair, Pasadena, California

7-1/4" x 5-1/8". Self wrappers. Promotional offprint of pp. 92-109 from the book of the same title (1918). Location: KK. John Ahouse, Upton Sinclair: A Descriptive, Annotated Bibliography (Los Angeles: Mercer & Aitchison, 1994), p. 37; not in Adler.

Quotation from letter by Mencken praising Sinclair's monthly magazine on recto of back wrapper.

B 28 (1) First fifty copies are on wove paper, 9-5/16" x 7-3/8", half bound in tan cloth, very light brown paper-covered boards, t.e.g., signed under the number by Cabell. Locations: KK (2), GHT. (2a) Next 390 on laid paper, 9-5/16" x 6", dark brown paper covering the tan cloth, top edge stained blue, unsigned. Locations: Harv, InU-Li, RJS, KK (2). (2b) Eighteen review copies in this binding, unnumbered and unsigned; 'Press' or 'Press Copy' written instead of number in copies noted, with an order form laid in one of them. Location: KK (2)

B 32 . . . 'Publisher.' Additional location: EPL (Mencken's name printed on front cover).

B 36A THE STORY OF A COMMON SOLDIER (1920?)
The Story of a | Common | Soldier | -OF- | Army Life in the Civil War | (1861-1865) | (Second Edition) | [rule]o[rule] | By Leander Stillwell | Of Co. D, 61st Illinois Infantry. | Late Judge of the 7th Judicial District (Kansas) | [rule]o[rule] | (278 pages, with 12 illustrations.) | [rule]o[rule] | For sale by the author, Erie, Kansas | [rule]o[rule] | Price, $1.00; when ordered by mail, $1.10

7-3/8" x 4-5/8". Self wrappers. Advertising brochure for the indicated book ([Erie?, Kans.:] Franklin Hudson Pub. Co., 1920). Location: GHT. Previously published (New York Evening Mail, 9 February 1918); not in Adler.

Quotation from Mencken's review of the first edition ("The Story of a Common Soldier"), pp. 5-6.

B 37.1 Reprinted [Gillette, N.J.:] Wildside Press, [February 2001].

B 38 Reprinted Freeport, N.Y.: Books for Libraries Press, [1970].

B 39.1 Reprinted New York: Liveright, [© renewed 1949] (cloth), . . .

B 40 7-1/4" x 5". (1) Light green "Toyagami" paper-covered boards, black cloth spine with light green paper label (dated 1921); on front cover: 'VI. Democracy and the Will to Power'. (2) Same, but 'VI.' corrected to 'V.'. (3) Green cloth stamped in black, blank on front, lettering on spine, Borzoi Books logo on back. Six titles in catalogue on p. [2]. Locations: . . .

B 41 5-1/2" x 6-1/4". . . . 1 October 1921. RJS copy inserted in October 1921 issue. Locations: JRS, RJS. . . .

B 42.1 Unsigned copies of first printing noted. Additional locations: KK, RJS.

B 44.2 English edition (1929)
A BOOK ABOUT | MYSELF | BY | THEODORE DREISER | CONSTABLE & CO LTD | LONDON

On copyright page: 'English Edition 1929'. (1) 7-5/8" x 5". Brown cloth stamped in blue on spine. Location: GHT. (2) 8-1/16" x 5". Dark green cloth stamped in gilt on spine. Locations: MU, RNSRU, RJS. For subsequent publishing history see Pizer. Not in Adler.

Edited by Mencken without acknowledgement.

B 45 . . . Velvety black cloth stamped in gilt. Locations: GHT, RJS. (2) Limited printing (cf. colophon, p. [304]). . . .

B 45A WHAT'S WRONG WITH THE AMERICAN MIND (1922)
B 45A.1 First edition (1922)

[cover title] [all over illustration: two faces and pointing hand] WHAT'S | WRONG | WITH THE | AMERICAN | MIND | by | FERDINAND HANSEN | [the rest white showing through black] ADDRESSED | TO ALL | AMERICANS | WHO ARE | "SICK OF | THE WAR"

Pink wrap-around band: 'WITH OPINIONS BY | [nine lines of names, including Mencken]'. Verso of front wrapper: 'Published by | The Overseas [device] Publishing Co., | Hamburg 15 | [thick-thin rule] | Cover Design by Oswald Herzog, Berlin-Steglitz'. Dated 1922 by OCLC. 10" x 6-3/4". White wrappers. Locations: GHT, CSt-H. Essays previously published (Smart Set, May 1921; Nation, 7 December 1921); not in Adler.

From "The Land of the Free," unidentified excerpt, and 'ON LIVING IN THE UNITED STATES', pp. 21-22, 28, 50-51.

B 45A.2 Second edition (1936)

[first line in script] Supreme Sacrifice | Being a Reprinting of | [roman lower case represents small caps] Pillory and Witness Box | An Open Letter to an English Officer | The Unrepentant Northcliffe | What's Wrong With the American Mind | [short rule] | As a Memorial | to | HERMAN GEORGE SHEFFAUER | [short rule] | By Ferdinand Hansen [end small caps] | [device] | Privately Printed | Franklin Typesetting Corp. | San Francisco | 1936

8-9/16" x 5-11/16". Tan cloth stamped in black and orange. Locations: ViW, MsCliM, GHT.

From "The Land of the Free," unidentified excerpt, and 'ON LIVING IN THE UNITED STATES', pp. 412-14, 421, 449-51.

B 45B HEAVENS (1922)
HEAVENS | By | LOUIS | UNTERMEYER | Author of "The New Adam," "Including Horace," | "Challenge," etc. | WITH A COVER DESIGN AND FRONTISPIECE | BY C. BERTRAM HARTMAN | [HB device] | NEW YORK | HARCOURT, BRACE AND COMPANY

On copyright page: 'COPYRIGHT, 1922'. 7-13/16" x 5-3/8". Tan boards printed in red and black on front, black cloth spine stamped in gilt. Dedicated to Mencken et al.; parody of him on pp. 75-80. Locations: RJS, MShM. Previously published; Adler 279, 341.

Blurb for Including Horace, in its second printing, ascribed to "H. L. Mencken in The Baltimore Sun," p. [155].

B 46 8-1/8" x 5-1/2". . . . 1971. Mencken's essay is recycled in the rearranged These United States: Portraits of America from the 1920s, ed. Daniel H. Borus (Ithaca and London: Cornell Univ., [1992]), which expands the collection from the Nation series from 27 to 49. Additional locations: GHT, RJS.

B 48 Published March 1923, according to John Ahouse, Upton Sinclair: A Descriptive, Annotated Bibliography (Los Angeles: Mercer & Aitchison, 1994), p. 142. Reprinted Philadelphia: Folcroft Library Editions, 1972, 150 copies; Norwood, Pa.: Norwood Editions, 1978.

B 48A VERTEIDIGUNG DER FRAU (1923)
[all within double rule brown frame with ornate corners, gothic] Die Bücher der | Abtei Thelem | Begründet von | Otto Julius Bierbaum | [ornate rule] | H. L. Mencken | Verteidigung | der Frau | [star] | Übertragen | von | Franz Blei | [star] | 1923 | [ornate rule] | Georg Müller München

Translation of In Defense of Women (A 18). Three major states of binding, all 5-7/8" x 3-3/4": (1) half bound leather with (a) green and brown paper or (b) maroon paper with off-white horizontal stripes and black bordered gray overlay design, both with spine stamped ornately in gilt and black, all edges stained maroon, or (c) brown paper with green, tan, and black design, spine stamped also in green; (2) leather spine stamped in gilt, boards covered with paper of various designs and colors (no two the same?), top edge stained yellow; (3) green or brown paper-covered boards and light green cloth spine, stamped in black, top edge stained yellow. Afterword translated in Menckeniana 159.8-9. Locations: EPL (2, 1st and 3rd), GHT (9, 1st [2], 2nd [5], and 3rd [3]), RJS (2, 2nd and 3rd). Adler 8; Frey 31.

Biographical information added to the introduction and a new afterword ('Nachwort'), pp. 357-61.

B 48B THE FREE-LANCE BOOKS (1923?)
[red on yellow paper, cover title] ALFRED A. KNOPF [Borzoi Books logo] 220 W. 42 St., New York | [ornamental border with the logo superimposed in center] | THE FREE-LANCE BOOKS | Edited by H. L. MENCKEN | [fifteen-line text and facsimile signature within box comprised of thick-thin rules] | Each Free-Lance book has a long and characteristic introduction | by H. L. Mencken. | ALFRED A. KNOPF [Borzoi Books logo] 220 W. 42 St., New York | [ornamental border with the logo superimposed in center]

Dated 1921 by Frey and (copying him) West, but it mentions both the English edition (1923) and German translation (1923) of In Defense of Women. Frey claims that it is printed in brown. 8-1/2" x 5-3/4". Folio. Location: MdBj. Frey 59-60, West 196; not in Adler.

Blurb for the series of six volumes on p. [1].

B 49.2 Second edition (ca. 1925)
[head title] THE | AMERICAN MERCURY | A New Monthly Review | [text follows]

Text begins as in previous but includes AM contents as late as October 1925. 7" x 4-1/4" sheet on Mercury green paper. Locations: GHT, KK. Note: both editions antedate B 50.

Quotation on verso from "H. L. Mencken, by Himself."

B 52 First printing bindings: (1) stamped in gilt on front, initial two leaves blank; (2) unstamped, one blank leaf, as in second printing binding. Reprinted New York: Gordon Press, 1975. Additional location: KK (2).

B 53 Delete R. West printing. See G 28.

B 54A JOSEPH CONRAD (1924)
B 54A.1 First edition (1924?)

JOSEPH CONRAD | A SKETCH | WITH A | BIBLIOGRAPHY | [flying sea horse design in blue and black] | ILLUSTRATED WITH | MANY DRAWINGS BY | EDW. A. WILSON | [rule] | PUBLISHED AT | COUNTRY LIFE PRESS | DOUBLEDAY PAGE & CO. | GARDEN CITY | NEW YORK | [device in blue and black]

On copyright page: 'COPYRIGHT, 1924'. 7-1/4" x 4-3/4". White, brown, and dark blue wrappers. The bibliography on p. 46 goes through the first quarter of 1925. Locations: KK, MWalB (rebound), RJS, GHT. Previously published (Nation, 20 August 1924); not in Adler.

Excerpt from "Joseph Conrad," pp. 6-7.

B 54A.2 Second edition (1926)

JOSEPH CONRAD | Including | An Approach to his Writings | A Biographical Sketch | A Brief Survey of his Works | and a Bibliography | [anchor] | Published by | DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & CO. | GARDEN CITY | N.Y.

On copyright page: 'COPYRIGHT 1926'. 7-3/4" x 5-1/2". Light blue wraps printed in black and blue. Locations: RJS, MWH (rebound), GHT. Not in Adler.

Excerpt from "Joseph Conrad," pp. [20-21].

B 56 The words quoted on wrapper are in maroon. Reprinted in 1926 with blurbs for Chains on p. [24] and the 'BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE' moved from there to recto of rear wrapper. Additional locations: RJS, GHT.

B 61 Copy of binding (2) noted with dj of olive green paper instead of the usual red. Additional location: GHT (no. 292, green dj).

B 62 First printing reported in plain slipcase (D), and binding (b) noted in one with an inscription by Alfred Knopf matching that in book. Additional locations: GHT (2, green and blue), RJS (2, green and blue), KK (blue, slipcase).

B 64A WILLIAM ELLERY LEONARD, TWO LIVES (1925?)
WILLIAM ELLERY LEONARD | TWO LIVES | A poem | [Huebsch device] | NEW YORK AND LONDON | MCMXXV

Pamphlet advertising Leonard's book. 7-3/8" x 4-7/8". Self wrappers. Location: KK. Not in Adler.

Blurb, p. [8]. "It is, in sum, an immensely interesting piece of work. . . ."

B 64B THE COMMON SENSE OF MUSIC BROCHURE (1925)
[all beneath photo] [left column, slanted up, in italics] How can I | find out something | about music without | wading through a lot of dull | technical stuff? | [large question mark] || [right column] THAT QUESTION IS | ANSWERED by | SIGMUND SPAETH in | The Common Sense | of Music | the gayest, clearest, most practical and most popular book ever written | on the subject. | Six large editions already printed, and more on the way. | BONI & LIVERIGHT Publishers New York

The sixth edition was published May 1925, the seventh in November. 7-1/8" x 6-1/8", orange paper. Location: Robert Krick. Previously published (American Mercury, August 1924); not in Adler

Blurb from "Apostle to the Philistines," p. 4.

B 65 . . . THE THIRTEENTH EDITION. . . . (1) Dark brown pebbled leatherette stamped in gilt on front and spine, blindstamped on back; (2) same but smooth green leatherette; (3) green cloth stamped in gilt on spine, light green on front. Locations: RJS, GHT (3), Harv (rebound).

B 69 Reprinted New York: Russell & Russell, 1963.

B 70 Additional location: OKentU.

B 71 Also noted in bright green cloth blindstamped and stamped in black. Ad for the American Mercury laid in (D, RJS). . . . Reprinted Freeport, N.Y.: Books for Libraries Press, 1968. Additional location: KK.

B 72 Also noted in blue-green cloth. Additional location: KK.

B 72A 25 (1926)
B 72A.1 First edition (1926)

25 | BEING A YOUNG MAN'S CANDID RECOLLECTIONS | OF HIS ELDERS AND BETTERS | By | BEVERLEY NICHOLS | NEW YORK | GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY

Copyright page: 'COPYRIGHT, 1926, | BY GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY | 25 | -B- | PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA'. None of the examined copies had a GHD device on the copyright page. 8-3/16" x 5-1/2". Maroon cloth with white paper labels printed in red on front and spine. Locations: MB, MChB, NjP, LC, RJS. Reprinted 1929. Adler 282.

Interview, pp. 174-77.

B 72A.2 Second (first English) edition (1926)

First issue: same title page as first American edition. Second issue: '25 | BEING A YOUNG MAN'S CANDID RECOLLECTIONS | OF HIS ELDERS AND BETTERS | By | BEVERLEY NICHOLS | [JC device] | LONDON | JONATHAN CAPE LTD'

First issue: on copyright page: 'MADE & PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN'. 7-13/16" x 5-7/8". Same binding as first American edition; photo of Nichols inserted after p. 2. Location: KK. Second issue: the title page is a cancel. On copyright page: 'FIRST PUBLISHED IN MCMXXVI | MADE & PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN'. 7-13/16" x 5-3/8". Brown patterned paper-covered boards, light brown cloth spine with white label printed in brown and black. Location: ICarbS. Eight further printings 1926-29. Reprinted in the Travellers' Library 1930 and in "flexibles" 1934. Not in Adler.

Interview, pp. 174-77.

B 72A.3 Third edition (1935)

TWENTY-FIVE | [French rule] | Beverley Nichols | [French rule] | [penguin] | PENGUIN BOOKS | London

On copyright page: 'Published in Penguin Books - - 1935'. 7-1/16" x 4-3/16". Blue, black, and white wrappers. Location: GHT. Eight further printings 1935-1938. Facsimile reprint in September 1985 as part of a boxed set commemorating the first ten Penguin books. Not in Adler.

Interview, pp. 174-77.

B 72B AN ENEMY SOWED COCKLE (1926)
"AN ENEMY | SOWED COCKLE" | BY | THEODORE F. MacMANUS [ac small caps] | AND | GEORGE BARRY O'TOOLE | THE DEVIN-ADAIR COMPANY | PUBLISHERS NEW YORK

On copyright page: 'Copyright, December [lower case represents small caps], 1926'. 7-5/16" x 4-7/8". Red cloth stamped in gilt and blindstamped. Locations: GHT (dj), MChB. Not in Adler.

Four-word quotation from a letter on the first chapter, which "was purposely submitted to Mr. Mencken as a challenge . . .," p. v. A longer quotation from the same letter is on the front of the dj.

B 72C HAVELOCK ELLIS (1926)
[all within triple rule box, outer rule bold] HAVELOCK ELLIS | [red rule] | A BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SURVEY | by Isaac Goldberg | [red rule] | WITH A SUPPLEMENTARY CHAPTER | ON MRS. EDITH ELLIS | [red rule] | Illustrated & Documented | [red device over red rule] | New York SIMON AND SCHUSTER Mcmxxvi

(1) 8-1/16" x 5-7/16". Red vertically-ribbed cloth stamped in gilt and blindstamped. (2) 7-13/16" x 5-1/4". Green cloth stamped in black. Dedicated to Mencken. Locations: MChB, RJS, GHT. Essay previously published (Prejudices: Third Series); not in Adler.

Quotations from "Havelock Ellis" and a letter to Goldberg of 17 October 1924, pp. 13-14.

B 73 Also new Borzoi boards design #24 (green on beige, unnumbered copy). Additional location: KK.

B 74.2 English printing (1927)
P's and Q's | By | JEROME S. MEYER | Geoffrey Bles [eagle on wreath] Suffolk St. Pall Mall | London

On copyright page: 'First published . . November 1927 | Reprinted . . . November 1927 | Reprinted . . . . April 1932'. First printing not seen. Location: IaU. Not in Adler.

Handwritten passage (4 Kings 2:23-24), p. 116. Analysis on pp. 117-18.

B 75 . . . YORK | [rule] | Published . . . Published October 1927, according to third printing. Reprinted November 1927, January 1928. Additional location of first issue: RJS.

B 78 . . . (American Mercury, December 1927: xliv) . . .

B 79B MONEY WRITES! (1927)
B 79B.1 Boni issue (1927)

[all within ornate frame inside box] MONEY | WRITES! | [rule, partly faded] | UPTON SINCLAIR | [bag of money] | NEW YORK | [rule] | ALBERT & CHARLES BONI | 1927

8-1/2" x 5-1/2". Dark blue-green cloth blindstamped on front, stamped in gilt on spine. Locations: MWalB, RJS, GHT. John Ahouse, Upton Sinclair: A Descriptive, Annotated Bibliography (Los Angeles: Mercer & Aitchison, 1994), p. 63; Adler 282.

Quotations from letters, pp. 34, 35, 36, 38, 132, 165; inscription in Notes on Democracy, p. 135.

B 79B.2 Sinclair issue (1927)

[all within double rule box] MONEY WRITES! | A Study of American Literature | BY | UPTON SINCLAIR | Author of | "The Jungle," "Oil!" etc. [lower case represents small caps] | [ornament] | PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHOR | Station B [lower case represents small caps] | Long Beach, California [same]

On copyright page: 'Copyright [lower case represents small caps], 1927'. 8-7/16" x 5-1/2". (1) Red cloth blindstamped and stamped in black on front, gilt on spine. (2) Tan wrappers printed in black. Locations: MBBI (cloth), GHT (2, cloth and wrappers). Ahouse 63; not in Adler.

Quotations from letters, pp. 34, 35, 36, 38, 132, 165; inscription in Notes on Democracy, p. 135.

B 79B.3 English edition (1931)

[all in double rule box] MONEY WRITES! | BY | UPTON SINCLAIR | Author of | "The Jungle," "Oil!" etc. [lower case represents small caps] | [TWL device] | LONDON | T. WERNER LAURIE LTD. | 24 & 26 WATER LANE, E.C.4

On copyright page: 'First published in England, 1931'. 7-1/4" x 4-7/8". Blue cloth stamped in gilt on spine. Reprinted St. Clair Shores, Mich.: Scholarly Press, 1970 (OCLC). Locations: KyRE, GHT. Ahouse 63; not in Adler.

Quotations from letters, pp. 35, 36, 37, 39, 126, 157; inscription in Notes on Democracy, pp. 128-29.

B 79C SARA TEASDALE (1927)
B 79C.1 First edition (1927)

[cover title] SARA | TEASDALE

Macmillan brochure advertising her Dark of the Moon (1926). Contains 1927 article by Jessie B. Rittenhouse. 7-5/16" x 4-15/16". New York issue (so address on verso of rear wrapper): wrappers in smooth gray paper and textured blue-gray paper. Locations: KK (2), GHT, RJS. Chicago issue: original wrappers not seen. Location: InNd (xerox of deteriorated original). Previously published (Smart Set, May 1912); not in Adler.

Quotation from Mencken's review of Helen of Troy and Other Poems ("The Bards in Battle Royal"), p. 5.

B 79C.2 Second edition (1937)

[cover title] SARA | TEASDALE

Macmillan brochure advertising her Collected Poems (1937); '37' appears on the rear wrapper. 7-1/4" x 4-15/16". Blue wrappers printed in black. Locations: GHT, RJS.

Quotation from Mencken's review of Helen of Troy and Other Poems ("The Bards in Battle Royal"), p. 6.

B 81 . . . stamped in green, blindstamped on back. Foreword translated in Menckeniana 161.12. Additional locations: GHT, LC (Gift | H. L. Mencken | JAN 18 1929, cloth).

*B 83 (2) 10" x 7". Green cloth blindstamped front and back, stamped in gilt on front and spine, edges unstained (personalized binding?). Typescript for the article not found at EPL. Earliest printing noted with article signed: 1940 (much different from 1929 version); latest: 2003. The article was retitled "American English" in 1970. Additional location: GHT.

B 86.1 Review copy has slip laid in with publication date of October 25. Reprinted 1932.

B 87 Delete entry. See A 36.

B 88 . . . Presumed first printing (vellum): . . . in black. (2) Same but gold, green, blue, orange, and rust paper-covered boards with stylized vegetative design. Locations: Harv, KK. . . .

B 88A A CONRAD MEMORIAL LIBRARY (1929)
A CONRAD | MEMORIAL LIBRARY | THE COLLECTION OF | GEORGE T. KEATING | [portrait of Conrad] | 1929 | Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc. [lower case represents small caps] | Garden City, New York

The foreword is by Keating. On p. [453]: 'FIRST PUBLISHED IN AN EDITION | OF 501 COPIES OF WHICH 425 ARE FOR SALE, AND OF | WHICH THIS IS NO. [number written in red]'. 10-1/4" x 7-1/2". Blue cloth with inset cameo on front and white label printed in blue on spine, extra label tipped in to rear free endpaper. Boxed. Locations: Harv (2), GHT, RJS. Quotation previously published (Smart Set, December 1922); not in Adler.

Quotation from "The Monthly Feuilleton-IV" and inscriptions in the collection's copies of A Book of Prefaces and Youth, pp. 9, 98, 100, 411, [450].

B 88B HUGH WALPOLE APPRECIATIONS (1929)
HUGH WALPOLE | Appreciations | By [y small cap] | JOSEPH CONRAD, ARNOLD BENNETT | JOSEPH HERGESHEIMER | With Notes and Comments | on the Novels of Hugh Walpole by | GRANT OVERTON | [DD device] | DOUBLEDAY, DORAN & COMPANY, INC. | GARDEN CITY, NEW YORK

On copyright page: 'COPYRIGHT, 1929'. 7-3/8" x 5". Light tan wraps printed in black on front and back. Location: RJS. Previously published (American Mercury, April 1928: lxvi); not in Adler.

One-sentence excerpt from two-sentence notice, p. 37.

B 90 . . . stamped in gilt on spine. Additional location: GHT.

B 91 Reprinted in Menckeniana 136.12-13. Drawn from a larger essay in C 21A.

B 92 . . . 'BACH TO BACH!' . . . Additional locations: RJS, GHT.

B 94 Delete entry. See B 45A.

B 95A A PENNSYLVANIA GERMAN LIBRARY (1930)
[rule] | HISTORICAL : BIBLIOGRAPHICAL : REMINISCENT | [rule] | A | Pennsylvania German | Library | or, | THE PLEASURES OF "RIDING" A HOBBY. | [illustration] | By A. Monroe Aurand, Jr. [lower case represents small caps] | Former Newspaperman, and Author of Various Books on | Pennsylvania History, Folk-Lore and Biography. | [decoration] | Privately Printed: | [rule] | THE AURAND PRESS: HARRISBURG, PENNA. 1930 | [rule] [the rules are rows of small hyphens]

P. [2]: 'LIMITED EDITION! | 200 copies; numbered and signed; for sale. | 300 copies, in wrappers; privately distributed. | This is No. [number written in above faint line in copies with boards] | [signature in same]'. 9-1/8" x 6". (1) Pale orange paper-covered boards printed in black on front, red cloth spine. Not all copies signed (D). (2) Brown paper wrappers printed in black. Locations: RJS (2, boards and wrappers), NjP (boards), GHT (2, boards and wrappers). Previously published (American Mercury, August 1929); not in Adler.

From review of Aurand's The "Pow-Wow" Book ("Checklist of Books"), pp. 17, 35.

B 95B THE BLIGHT THAT FAILED (1930)
B 95B.1 First printing (1930)

[cover title] The Blight that Failed | THE [T extends to next line] American book- | buyer and bookseller | have prevented the | smothering of an outstand- | ing biography, and cir- | cumvented the blight that | would have fallen upon | our constitutional liber- | ties of free speech, free | thought, and a free press. | "Mrs. Eddy: The Biography | of a Virginal Mind" appears | in a new popular, low-priced | edition, price, $2.00 | Charles Scribner's Sons . . . New York

The advertised edition was published in February 1930. 8" x 4-13/16". Self wrappers. Locations: PPLT (reclad), GHT, RJS. Previously published (American Mercury, November 1929); not in Adler.

Excerpt from "The Career of a Divinity," p. 6.

B 95B.2 Second printing (1930)

[cover title] The Blight that Failed | BEING [B extends to next line] an account of how Mr. | Edwin Franden Dakin's out- | standing biography, "Mrs. Eddy: | The Biography of a Virginal | Mind," came to be published; of | the efforts made by officials of the Christian Science Church to ob- | tain access to the MS. in order | to censor it; of the methods | adopted to induce booksellers and | libraries not to stock or circulate | the book, and of the failure of this | concerted effort to put a blight | on the liberties of free speech, | free thought, and a free press. | "Mrs. Eddy: The Biography of | a Virginal Mind" appears now | for the first time in the new | Blue Ribbon Edition, price | $1.00. | Blue Ribbon Books . . . . . New York

The Blue Ribbon Edition was published in 1930. 7-3/4" x 4-15/16". Self wrappers. Locations: GHT, MH-AH. Previously published (American Mercury November 1929); not in Adler.

Excerpt from "The Career of a Divinity," p. 6.

B 95C THE MAN OF PROMISE (1930)
[all enclosed within two boxes, the inner one ornamental] THE | MAN OF PROMISE | BY | WILLARD HUNTINGTON WRIGHT | NEW YORK | CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS | 1930

On copyright page: 'Copyright, 1930, by | CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS | [rule] | Copyright, 1916, by JOHN LANE COMPANY [lower case represents small caps]'. 8" x 5-1/2". Dark blue cloth stamped in gilt on spine. Locations: KK (dj), MWC, RJS (dj). Previously published (Forum, April 1916); not in Adler.

Quotation from "America Produces a Novelist" in the 'INTRODUCTORY' (signed 'The Publishers [lower case represents small caps]'), pp. vi-vii, and on front flap of dj.

B 96 . . . 1941]); second printing January 1942. . . .

B 98.1 Published April 1931; second printing August 1931. Additional location: GHT.

B 98.2 Second edition (1937)
[all within thin-thick double rule box] MODELS | FOR | WRITING PROSE | REVISED EDITION | [rule] | EDITED BY | ROGER SHERMAN LOOMIS | COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY | WITH THE COLLABORATION OF | VAIL MOTTER | WELLESLEY COLLEGE | [rule] | FARRAR & RINEHART, INC. | PUBLISHERS NEW YORK

On copyright page: 'COPYRIGHT, 1931, 1937'. Published April 1937. 8-3/8" x 5-9/16". Blue cloth stamped in gilt on spine. Location: MWelC. Reprinted October 1937, July 1938.

'THE AMERICAN NOVEL', pp. 277-79.

B 99.1 The title/copyright leaf is a cancel. . . . (1) Orange cloth stamped in gilt and blindstamped. Review copy has slip pasted in. Locations: GHT, Harv (rebound), MCR (rebound), RJS. (2) Dark orange cloth stamped in black. Locations: KK, GHT. . . . [1969], hard and soft covers; [New York:] Minerva, [1969]; Delanco, N.J.: The Classics of Liberty Library, [2003], half bound in leather, a.e.g. . . .

B 99.3 'LibertyClassics' is one word, not hyphenated.

B 99A MAXIM GORKY AND HIS RUSSIA (1931)
B 99A.1 American issue (1931)

MAXIM GORKY | And His RUSSIA | BY ALEXANDER KAUN | [JC & HS device in circle] | NEW YORK | JONATHAN CAPE & HARRISON SMITH

On copyright page: 'FIRST PUBLISHED, 1931'. 8-15/16" x 6-1/16". Black cloth blindstamped front and back, gilt on spine. Locations: RJS, MChB. Reprinted New York: B. Blom, 1968. Not in Adler.

Excerpts from letters to Kaun on the 1905 affair, p. 594.

B 99A.2 English issue (1932)

MAXIM GORKY | AND HIS RUSSIA | BY | ALEXANDER KAUN | [JC device] | LONDON | JONATHAN CAPE

The title page is a cancel. On copyright page: 'FIRST PUBLISHED, 1932 | PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA | BOUND BY MESSRS NEVETT LTD. | HENDON, ENGLAND'. 9" x 5-7/8". Maroon cloth stamped in gilt on spine. Location: MU.

Excerpts from letters to Kaun on the 1905 affair, p. 594.

B 99B INNOCENCE ABROAD (1931)
Innocence | Abroad | EMILY [long green vertical ornament] CLARK | [wavy green line] | 19 [Borzoi device] 31 | NEW YORK [raised dot] ALFRED [raised dot] A [raised dot] KNOPF [raised dot] LONDON

(1) 8-1/16" x 5-7/16", green cloth stamped in black; (2) 8-1/8" x 5-5/16", blue cloth stamped in black and gilt. Locations: RJS, MNS, KK (2). Reprinted Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, [1975]. Adler 285.

Letters quoted, pp. 111-26.

B 99C FRANK HARRIS: A STUDY IN BLACK AND WHITE (1931)
FRANK HARRIS | A STUDY IN BLACK AND WHITE | By | A. I. TOBIN | and | ELMER GERTZ | An "Authorized" Biography [lower case represents small caps] | [ornament] | 1931 | MADELAINE MENDELSOHN | CHICAGO

On copyright page: 'FIRST EDITION | LIMITED TO 1,000 COPIES | ALL RIGHTS RESERVED | COPY NO. [stamped number over line]'. 8-9/16" x 5-3/4". Orange cloth stamped in black. Locations: KK, MShM. All but reply to letter previously published (F 2A, 12D); not in Adler.

Reply to a letter from the authors, pp. 241-42; other comments, pp. 161, 240, 276.

B 100.1 . . . signed 'H. L. Mencken [lower case represents small caps]' . . . Additional location: RJS.

B 101 On p. 453: '(I)'. . . . stamped in gilt. Additional locations: KK, GHT, RJS.

B 102 . . . TOBEY, Dr. P. H. [d, p, h small caps] . . . With Introductions by . . . . 8" x 5-1/2". Additional location: RJS.

B 103 . . . 753 Copyright, 1932, by E. C. Schirmer Music Co. [over] For all countries.

10-11/16" x 7-1/4". Green wrappers printed in black. Recto of back wrapper has biography of Thompson and date of October 1932; verso has their 1932 catalogue of choral music. Sheet music. Locations: EPL, GHT. Previously published; Adler 339.

B 104.2 English printing (1933)
[all within double rule box] ON THE | MEANING OF LIFE | WILL DURANT | 1933 | WILLIAMS & NORGATE | 28-30, Little Russell Street, London, W.C.2

7-1/8" x 4-13/16". Blue cloth stamped in black on spine. Locations: GHT, Bod. Not in Adler.

Letter quoted, pp. 30-35.

B 105 Reprinted October 1932.

B 106A FORGOTTEN FRONTIERS (1932)
B 106A.1 American edition (1932)

FORGOTTEN | FRONTIERS | DREISER AND THE LAND OF THE FREE | DOROTHY | DUDLEY | [ornament] | NEW YORK . 1932 [period raised] | HARRISON SMITH AND ROBERT HAAS

On copyright page: 'FIRST PRINTED, 1932.' 9-1/8" x 6-1/16". Gray cloth with orange paper labels printed in black on front and spine, blindstamped on spine. Locations: MChB, RJS, GHT. Adler 285-86.

Quotations from letters, pp. 233, 261, 264-65, 309-11, 339, 356, 357, 360, 362, 395, 407-08.

B 106A.2 English edition (1933)

DREISER | AND THE | LAND OF THE FREE | A NOVEL OF FACTS | BY | DOROTHY DUDLEY | LONDON | WISHART & COMPANY

On copyright page: 'FIRST ENGLISH EDITION | 1933'. 8-7/16" x 5-3/8". Red cloth stamped in black on spine. Locations: GHT, NJSooS (partially rebound). Adler 286

Quotations from letters, pp. 233, 261, 264-65, 309-11, 339, 356, 357, 360, 362, 395, 407-08.

B 106B LUDWIG LEWISOHN (1932?)
[cover title, in dark brown, beneath photo of Lewisohn] LUDWIG LEWISOHN | "He belongs of right to the most | distinguished circle of contemporary | novelists in America." - Saturday Review of Literature.

Latest title mentioned in this Harper & Brothers brochure was published in 1932. 8-1/2" x 5-1/2". Folio. Location: KK. Previously published (American Mercury, March 1927); not in Adler.

Blurb (from "Portrait of a Lady"), p. [2].

B 110 Reprinted May 1934, March 1937, August 1941.

B 111 On copyright page: 'COPYRIGHT, 1934 . . . | . . . | First Printing'. At end of p. 429: '(1)'. 7-15/16" x 5-1/8". Dark red cloth blindstamped on front, stamped in gilt on spine. Locations: MB (rebound), LC (rebound), GHT, RJS.

B 112 Bindings noted in navy blue, taupe, and maroon. Additional location: KK.

B 113.1 7-3/4" x 5-1/2". Apparently in use as late as 1940, according to promotional material included with KK copy. Additional location: KK.

B 113.3 Presumed third edition

No title page; the recto of the front wrapper has the same twelve signatures as in B 113.1. On p. [15] is the Pleasantville address but with a note that the price is "15 shillings per year." 5-3/8" x 4-3/16". Self wrappers. Location: KK. Previously published; Adler 151?

'Not an Idea | Missing', p. [7].

B 113A On copyright page: 'Copyright, 1934'. 10" x 6-5/8". Blue-green cloth stamped in red, with loop for pencil. Latest noted printing is the sixteenth. Locations: LC (rebound), OCl, KK.

B 113B THE FARALLONES BROCHURE (1934?)
Comments on The Farallones, The Painted | World and Other Poems of California

10-15/16" x 7-1/2". Folio. Prospectus for the book by Milton S. Ray (San Francisco: John Henry Nash, 1934). Location: KK. Not in Adler.

Comment on the book, p. 3. "The poems . . . are charming indeed."

B 113C THE ITALIANS IN AMERICA BROCHURE (1934?)
[wavy rule] | Every educated American, whether or not | of Italian extraction, should read | The Italians in America | Before the Civil War | by G. Schiavo | [rule with solid half circle above center] | [quotations from FDR, G. A. Borgese, and Mencken] | [rule with solid half circle below center] | 416 pages - 47 pages of bibliography - 1200 selected words listed - | literally hundreds of facts not generally known | [short rule] | PRICE $5.00 | [short rule] | THE VIGO PRESS | 2 Rector Street, New York City

5-1/2" x 4". Folio. Brochure advertising the book (1934). Location: KK. Not in Adler.

Blurb by Mencken on pp. [1] and [4].

B 114 Blue cloth stamped in cream. Copy noted with additional date ('September, 1935') on copyright page. Additional locations: MSC, GHT (2).

B 117 . . . unsigned (InU-Li, KK).

B 117A CAN WE ABOLISH WAR? (1935)
CAN WE ABOLISH WAR? | By | HERMAN BERNSTEIN | Author of "Celebrities of Our Time", The Road to Peace", etc. | BROADVIEW-Publishers | NEW YORK

On copyright page: 'Copyright, 1935'. 7-11/16" x 5-1/4". Red cloth stamped in gilt. Review copy has laid-in slip with publication date of 15 April 1935. Locations: MWalB, RJS. Previously published (Liberty, 17 November 1934); not in Adler.

Statement on likelihood of war, p. 72.

B 119.1 . . . (2) 7-3/16" x 5-15/16". Dark green pebbled leatherette stamped in gilt on front. (3) 7-3/16" x 5-7/8". Red pebbled leatherette embossed in red and gold on front. There is a third printing in larger format, according to Robert A. Wilson, Gertrude Stein: A Descriptive Bibliography (Rockville, Md.: Quill and Brush, 1994), p. 150. Reprinted [Monterey: Pebble Beach Co., 2004]. Additional locations: RAW, GHT (2), RJS.

B 121.2 Additional location: InU-Li (rebound).

B 122 RJS copy has red-orange cloth spine. GHT copy is orangish brown cloth stamped in black on spine.

B 123 . . . NEW YORK AND LONDON . . . On copyright page: 'FIRST EDITION | A-L'. 9-1/16" x 6". Coarse green cloth stamped in black. Location: GHT . . . "Sample copy" has explanatory sheet laid in (KK). Later printings letter-coded on copyright page.

B 125A HANDWRITING TELLS (1936)
HANDWRITING | TELLS [small caps] by | [script] Nadya Olyanova | INTRODUCTION BY W. BERAN WOLFE | New York . COVICI . FRIEDE . [dots raised] Publishers

On copyright page: 'COPYRIGHT, 1936'. 9-1/4" x 5-15/16". Yellow cloth stamped in brown. Location: GHT. Adler 347.

Handwritten quotation from Gen. 1:2-3, p. 132; analyzed, pp. 132-33.

B 125B THE ROOSEVELT RED RECORD (1936)
[all in frame] THE ROOSEVELT RED RECORD | AND ITS BACKGROUND | [in double rule box] by | ELIZABETH DILLING | (Mrs. Albert W. Dilling) | Author of "The Red Network" | [shield with stars and stripes] | [remainder below box] Published by the Author | 545 ESSEX ROAD, KENILWORTH, ILLINOIS | 53 WEST JACKSON BOULEVARD, CHICAGO

Published September 1936. On copyright page: '[lower case represents small caps] Copyright 1936'. 8-1/16" x 5-1/2". Red cloth stamped in black. Locations: GHT, RJS. Reprinted October 1936. Previously published; not in Adler.

Quotation from Mencken's letter in the Commonwealth College Fortnightly of 1 April 1935, p. 203.

B 127 [orange and black ornament featuring a compositor] | [orange] The publisher & printer of the Oriole | Press takes pleasure in announcing | the appearance of the second volume | of FREE VISTAS, a libertarian out- | look on life and letters, edited by Jos. | Ishill at his private press in Berkeley | Heights, N. J. The edition is limited | to two hundred and five copies. [ornament] | [black French rule] | [orange] MCMXXXVII

8" x 5". Additional location: RJS.

B 128 GHT copy is 8-1/2" x 6-1/4", mottled blue cloth spine.

B 131.1 . . . NEW YORK :: LONDON. . . . Additional location: RJS (2, first and second states).

B 132.2 Second (?) issue . . . [A-C device] | D. APPLETON-CENTURY COMPANY | NEW YORK [raised dot] LONDON | for SCOTT, FORESMAN AND COMPANY . . . 7-3/16" x 4-7/8". Blue cloth stamped in purple. Locations: KK, GHT.

B 133 On copyright page: 'FIRST EDITION'. Additional location: RJS.

B 134 . . . decorations] Pictures. . . . Second printing (1937) stated on dj; red cloth stamped in black. . . . House, [1948] and [1949]. Additional locations: GHT, RJS.

B 134A AMERICAN LITERATURE (1937)
[ornamental rule with flower in center] | Our Literary Heritage | [ornamental rule with flower in center] | AMERICAN | LITERATURE | RUSSELL BLANKENSHIP | University of Washington | ROLLO L. LYMAN HOWARD C. HILL | University of Chicago University of Chicago | Illustrations by | THOMAS FOGARTY | [ornamental rule with flower in center] | CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS, NEW YORK | Chicago Boston Atlanta San Francisco Dallas

On copyright page: 'Copyright, 1937 [lower case represents small caps] . . . | . . . | A'. 8-1/4" x 5-1/2". Red cloth stamped in black and gilt. Locations: KK, MBMU. Previously published (Harper's, April 1935); not in Adler.

'1. THE FUTURE OF ENGLISH', pp. 1026-32.

B 134B BOOKS BY UPTON SINCLAIR (1937?)
[head title] BOOKS BY UPTON SINCLAIR | [text follows]

On p. [4]: 'Order from UPTON SINCLAIR, Station A, Pasadena, California.' Latest date on books listed is 1937. 8-1/2" x 5-1/2". Folio. Location: KK. Previously published (F 35A; Baltimore Evening Sun, 23 February 1924?; F 7A); not in Adler.

Comments on American Outpost, The Goslings, and The Goose Step, pp. [1], [2].

B 135 Review copy has label attached to front pastedown. Locations: RJS (2) . . .

B 139 . . . ninth (1945). . . .

B 139A HIGH-SCHOOL ANTHOLOGY (1938)
[all within a double rule box inside another box] HIGH-SCHOOL | Anthology [lower case represents small caps] | AMERICAN LITERATURE | [ornament] | RUSSELL A. SHARP | Formerly Supervisor of English | High Schools and Junior College | Highland Park, Michigan | JNO. J. TIGERT | President of the University of Florida | Commissioner of Education of the United States, 1921-1928 | ANNETTE MANN | Chairman of the Department of English | Southern Junior-Senior High School | Baltimore, Maryland | L. E. DUDLEY | Superintendent of Schools | Abilene, Texas | Illustrations by | GREGORY ORLOFF and M. F. ISERMAN | LAIDLAW BROTHERS INC. | Publishers | CHICAGO NEW YORK SAN FRANCISCO DALLAS ATLANTA

On copyright page: 'Copyright 1938'. 8-3/4" x 5-15/16". Green cloth stamped in black and yellow. Locations: FU, KK. Not in Adler.

'MENCKEN NOT INTERESTED IN BOOKS' (interview by John Selby dated 'NEW YORK, December 25'), pp. 642-44.

B 139B IMPERIAL JAPAN 1926-1938 (1938)
IMPERIAL JAPAN | 1926-1938 | by | A. MORGAN YOUNG | 1938 | WILLIAM MORROW & COMPANY | NEW YORK

8-7/16" x 5-1/2". Advance review copy with dust jacket over unprinted wrappers. Locations: KK (2), CtU (rebound). Previously published (American Mercury, October 1929); not in Adler.

Blurb for Young's Japan in Recent Times (from "The Yankee of the East") on front of dust jacket of prepublication copies.

B 140 . . . Poems (1921) and More In American (1926). . . .

B 141 . . . stamped in copperish gilt . . . Additional location: RJS.

B 143 Reprinted without date on the copyright page.

B 144A HAPPY DAYS BROCHURE (1939?)
[beneath illustration of the book Happy Days and to the right of a borzoi, as beige showing through burnt amber] To be published | JANUARY 22nd | at $2.75

8-3/8" x 5-7/16". Folio. Advertisement for the book (A 49). Burnt amber printing on beige paper. Location: KK. Not in Adler.

Quotations from Mencken's "Preface," p. [2].

B 144B ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH SYMPOSIUM (1939)
[cover title] ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH | SYMPOSIUM | [rule]on[rule] | FREEDOM OF | THE PRESS | Expressions by 120 Representative Americans | [double rule] | [quotation from letter by FDR in nine lines] | [double rule] | Reprinted from December 13 to 25, 1938, | issues, inclusive, of the | ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH

8-7/16" x 5-3/8". Concludes with an editorial of 31 December 1938; review copy noted has laid-in letter dated 10 February 1939. Heavy paper wrappers printed in black. Locations: RJS, KK. Not in Adler.

Contribution by Mencken, p. 50.

B 145.2 Second edition (1941?)
[cover title, all within box] Souvenir | DU | Restaurant Antoine | [illustration with two ornaments on each side] | FONDÉ EN 1840 | ROY L. ALCIATORE, PROPRIETOR | 713-717 ST. LOUIS STREET NEW ORLEANS, LA

6-11/16" x 5-3/16". White wrappers printed in black. Location: KK (2).

One-sentence remark to Mr. Alciatore, p. 19.

B 147 'COMMENT', pp. 113-14.

B 147A FAMOUS PERSONALITIES AND THEIR PHILOSOPHIES (1940)
Famous Personalities | AND THEIR PHILOSOPHIES | Collected and Compiled by | Mildred Moore | [ornament: book over winged torch] | VOLUME I | THE MILLIMORE PRESS | 2409 North Anthony Boulevard, Fort Wayne, Indiana | 1940

9" x 6". Black grained cloth stamped in gilt. Street address barred out in KK copy. Locations: GHT, RJS, InUpT, KK. Not in Adler.

Contribution (1 Tim. 5:23), p. 109.

B 147B OF MEN AND BOOKS (1940)
OF MEN AND BOOKS | Quotations From Famous Authors | Compiled by | Mano Swartz | [ornament] | TOGETHER WITH A PORTRAIT OF MANO SWARTZ, | A PAINTING BY D. W. STOKES, A FOREWORD BY LEONARD | DARVIN, AND LETTERS FROM PROMINENT | BALTIMOREANS IN TRIBUTE TO MANO SWARTZ | [ornament] | Presenting this pamphlet, | I wish it to be known | Every line is borrowed, | Not a word my own . . . [sic] | 1940 | PRIVATELY PRINTED

9-1/4" x 5-7/8". Blue cloth blindstamped front and back, stamped in gilt on spine. Only the title page is typeset; the rest is a kind of mimeo, presumably made in Baltimore. Locations: MdBJ, RJS. Not in Adler.

Testimonial letter from Mencken to Darvin of 23 August 1940, p. [67].

B 148A TEMPLES AND TOWERS (1941)
TEMPLES AND | TOWERS | A Survey of the World's Moral Outlook [lower case represents small caps] | Compiled by | GEORGE VAUGHAN, LL.D. | PROFESSOR OF LAW, UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS | [device] | BOSTON | MEADOR PUBLISHING COMPANY | MCMXLI

7-11/16" x 5-3/8". Green cloth stamped in gilt and blindstamped. Location: PPSJ. Not in Adler.

Reply to questionnaire on whether a spiritual awakening was at hand, pp. 41-42, 247-48.

B 150 Later printings or issues: (1) 7-9/16" x 5-7/16"; light orange cloth over thin boards, stamped in black, handstamp on title page: 'THE TRUTH SEEKER | BOX 2832 | San Diego, Calif., U.S.A. 92112'; (2) 7-1/2" x 5-3/8", in same binding, with silver sticker beneath imprint: '[all to right of symbol] American Atheist Press [lower case represents small caps] | BOX 2117 | AUSTIN, TEXAS', covering 'NEW ADDRESS | Box 1832, San Diego | California, U. S. A. 92112', which is apparently stamped there. Additional location: GHT (2).

*B 153A THE ARTIST IN AMERICA (1942)
THE | ARTIST | IN AMERICA | TWENTY-FOUR CLOSE-UPS OF | Contemporary Printmakers | B Y | CARL ZIGROSSER | Curator of Prints, Philadelphia Museum of Art | ALFRED A. KNOPF [Borzoi device] NEW YORK 1942

On copyright page: 'FIRST EDITION'. 10" x 7". Maroon cloth stamped in gilt and blindstamped. Reprinted New York: Hacker Art Books, 1978. Locations: KK, MWiM. Not in Adler.

Quotation from letter of 4 March 1932 (so dated in eBay sale of 10 September 2006), p. 185.

*B 153B AUTOBIOGRAFIA DEGLI STATI UNITI (1942)
AUTOBIOGRAFIA | DEGLI STATI UNITI | A cura di | MARIA NAPOLITANO MARTONE | Gruppo Editoriale Domus [lower case represents small caps] | [rule] | Milano 1942-XX

On p. [4]: 'Prima edizione: octobre 1942-XX.' Series: La Ruota della Fortuna 1. 8-10/16" x 6-5/16". White wrappers printed in black, gray, and pink. Location: GHT. Previously published (American Mercury, March 1939); not in Adler.

'UN BILANCIO DEL «NEW DEAL» | di H. L. Mencken [lower case represents small caps] | (1939)' (translation of "Bringing Roosevelt Up to Date"), pp. 43-49.

B 154.2 Second edition (1949)
H. Allen Smith | LIFE | IN A PUTTY KNIFE | FACTORY | [NAL-Signet device] | A SIGNET BOOK | Published by THE NEW AMERICAN LIBRARY

On copyright page: 'FIRST PRINTING, OCTOBER, 1949'; published in New York. 7-1/16" x 4-3/16". Multicolored pictorial wrappers. Location: GHT. Not in Adler.

Interview, pp. 112-16.

B 155.2 Second edition (1944/46) Same title and copyright pages. The list of his books facing the title page ends with Christ, the Apostles, and Wine (1944) but does not include Alcohol Reaction at Yale (1946). 8-1/2" x 5-1/2". Maroon cloth stamped in gilt. Location: GHT. Mencken quotation on p. 265.

B 159.1 . . . UL17-18, 2 vols.), [1955], 2:1160-1245; New York: The Modern Library, [1960], 'First Printing' on copyright page; New York: Octagon, . . . Additional location: RJS.

B 159.2 First English printing (1956)
THE SHOCK | OF | RECOGNITION | [ornamental rule] | THE DEVELOPMENT OF LITERATURE | IN THE UNITED STATES | RECORDED BY THE MEN | WHO MADE IT | EDITED BY | EDMUND WILSON | [pictorial scene in oval] | [lower case represents small caps] W. H. Allen | London | 1956

Copyright page: 'PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA'. 7-7/16" x 4-3/16". Red cloth stamped in gilt on spine. Location: NGlfAC. Not in Adler.

'Theodore Dreiser', 'James Huneker', 'A Short View of Gamalielese', 'Want Ad' (from "The Fringes of Lovely Letters"), and 'Ring Lardner' (from "Four Makers of Tales"), pp. 1160-1245.

B 159A THE AMERICAN MERCURY READER (1943)
B 159A.1 First edition (1943)

T H E | [script] American Mercury | READER | A selection of distinguished articles, stories, and poems published | in The American Mercury during the past 20 years | 1924 to 1944 | [ornamental rule] | [table of contents in 31 lines] | [rule] | Copyright 1943 by The American Mercury, Inc. Printed in the U.S.A. No article may be reprinted in | whole or in part without written permission from the copyright owners | THIS BOOK IS NOT FOR SALE | Published by The American Mercury, Inc., 570 Lexington Avenue, New York 22, N. Y.

Foreword by Lawrence E. Spivak. 7-5/8" x 5-1/2". White wrappers printed in green, black, and orange. Locations: RJS, GHT. Previously published (American Mercury, October 1925); not in Adler.

'WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN' ("Editorial"), pp. 31-34.

B 159A.2 Second edition (1944)

T H E | [script] American Mercury | READER | [rule] | A selection of distinguished articles, stories and poems published | in THE AMERICAN MERCURY during the past twenty years | E D I T E D B Y | Lawrence E. Spivak and Charles Angoff | 1944 | THE BLAKISTON COMPANY | PHILADELPHIA

(1) 8-3/8" x 5-1/2". Light green cloth stamped in gilt on spine, top edge stained green, '921-44' on bottom of front flap of dj. Locations: Harv, GHT (dj). (2) 7-13/16" x 5-3/8". Smooth green cloth with same stamping, unstained. Location: RJS. (3) 7-5/8" x 5-1/2". Grainy green cloth with same stamping, top edge stained yellow, "BOOK CLUB | EDITION' on bottom of front flap of dj. Locations: GHT (dj), JRS (dj). (4) 7-3/4" x 5-1/2". Same cloth, stamping, and dj, unstained. Locations: Harv (rebound), RJS (2, dj), GHT (dj). Reprinted Garden City, N.Y.: Blue Ribbon Books, [1946]; New York: AMS, [1979]; [Amsterdam: Fredonia Books, 2001]. Adler 161.

'WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN' ("Editorial"), pp. 34-37.

B 164.2 . . . blindstamped dot on rear cover (found in either dark blue cloth or black cloth, same stamping as trade printing). Later (?) BOMC printing (so stated on copyright page) in green paper-covered boards, blue cloth spine stamped in gilt, no dot on rear cover. Reprinted . . .

B 165 ENCYCLOPAEDIA [AE ligature] | BRITANNICA . . . . Also black fabricoid stamped in gilt. Additional location: GHT.

B 167 . . . Sons New York . . . Reprinted without the 'A'. German translation by Gottfried Ippisch as Prominente Plaudern (Wien: Humboldt-Verlag, 1948). Additional location: RJS. . . . 'MENCKEN ON LITERATURE AND | POLITICS' . . .

B 167A CONFESSIONS OF A STORY WRITER (1946)
CONFESSIONS | OF A | STORY WRITER | PAUL GALLICO | [Borzoi device in oval] | [row of diamonds with dots in centers] | New York . Alfred . A . Knopf [dots raised] | 1946

On copyright page: 'FIRST EDITION'. 8-3/8" x 5-5/8". Red cloth blindstamped front and back, stamped in gilt on spine. Location: GHT. Not in Adler.

Letter to Gallico, p. 251.

B 167B TEXAS (1946)
TEXAS | By | Carl Willard Smith | HALDEMAN-JULIUS PUBLICATION | GIRARD, KANSAS

On copyright page: 'Copyright, 1946'. 8-7/16" x 5-7/16". Orange wrappers printed in black. Locations: KK, RJS. Not in Adler.

Letter of 22 July 1946 to Haldeman-Julius, p. 29.

B 169A IS THAT ME? (1947)
IS THAT ME? | A BOOK ABOUT CARICATURE | by | WILLIAM AUERBACH-LEVY | [caricature of author] | Assisted by | FLORENCE VON WIEN | [device] | WATSON-GUPTILL PUBLICATIONS, [small caps] INC.

On copyright page: 'Copyright 1947'. 11-15/16" x 8-5/8". Orange cloth stamped in blue. Locations: KK, MAnP (rebound), RJS. Not in Adler.

A caricature of Mencken and quotations from two letters to Auerbach-Levy, pp. 126-27.

B 169B GEORGE ADE: WARMHEARTED SATIRIST (1947)
[first two lines in decorative box] George Ade | WARMHEARTED SATIRIST | [ornament] | THE BOBBS-MERRILL COMPANY | Publishers | INDIANAPOLIS [raised dot] NEW YORK | [decorative line]

On copyright page: 'First Edition'. 8-7/16" x 5-3/4". Special issues noted with signed leaf tipped in. Maroon cloth stamped in gilt. Locations: KK (2), MChB. Previously published (?; Prejudices: First Series); not in Adler.

Comment on In Babel and quotation from "George Ade," pp. 126, 149.

B 171 'Bryan' is from the Baltimore Sun of July 27.

B 177 No blindstamping. Additional location: MWelC. Previously published (Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, 30 July 30 1947); not in Adler.

B 179.1 . . . 1954; April 1955. . . .

B 179.2 Published New York (OCLC). Subsequent printings: July 1956, November 1956, July 1957, January 1958. Reissued as a Holt-Dryden Book and as Holt, Rinehart & Winston paperback. Additional locations: GHT, KK.

B 179.3 Third edition (1963)
[p. [ii]:] HOLT, | RINEHART | AND | WINSTON | New York . Chicago . San Francisco [periods represent raised dots] || [p. [iii]:] PATTERNS | IN | WRITING | THIRD EDITION | ROBERT B. DOREMUS | EDGAR W. LACY | GEORGE BUSH RODMAN | University of Wisconsin [lower case represents small caps]

On copyright page: 'Copyright © 1963' [lower case represents small caps]. 8-15/16" x 6". Spine and two-thirds of boards in green cloth stamped in pale blue-green on front, gilt on spine, rest of boards in patterned blue-green cloth stamped in gilt on front. Locations: MBrHC, KK.

'Scented Words', pp. 529-35.

B 181.2 . . . 'First Collier Books Edition 1962'. . . .

B 182A HUGH WALPOLE A BIOGRAPHY (1952)
B 182A.1 English printing (1952)

HUGH | WALPOLE | A BIOGRAPHY | by | RUPERT HART-DAVIS | Er liebte jeden Hund, und wünschte von | jedem Hund geliebt zu sein. | JEAN PAUL | Flegeljahre | LONDON | MACMILLAN & CO. LTD | 1952

On copyright page: 'PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN'. 8-5/8" x 5-7/8". Green cloth stamped in gilt on spine. First and second printings March 1952. Reprinted Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, [1980]; London: Hamish Hamilton, [1985], paperback; Thrupp, Eng.: Sutton, [1997], paperback. Location: KK. Not in Adler.

Quotation from letter to Walpole, p. 228.

B 182A.2 American printing (1952)

HUGH | WALPOLE | A BIOGRAPHY | by | RUPERT HART-DAVIS | Er liebte jeden Hund, und wünschte von | jedem Hund geliebt zu sein. | JEAN PAUL | Flegeljahre | NEW YORK | THE MACMILLAN COMPANY | 1952

On copyright page: 'FIRST PRINTING | PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA'. 8-1/4" x 5-7/16". Dark green cloth stamped in gilt. Reprinted New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, [1952], paperback. Locations: KK, MBNU.

Quotation from letter to Walpole, p. 228.

B 182B SEX AND RACE (1952)
[all within elaborate box] SEX AND RACE | NEGRO-CAUCASION MIXING | IN ALL AGES AND ALL LANDS | By | J. A. ROGERS | Author, From Superman to Man; World's Great | Men of Color; Nature Knows No Color-Line, etc. | [short rule] | Volume I | THE OLD WORLD | [short rule over long rule] | J. A. ROGERS | [rule with embellishment] | 37 Morningside Avenue - - New York City

On copyright page: 'Copyright 1940 . . . | . . . | Reprinted . . . 1952'. 9" x 6". Turquoise cloth stamped in gilt. Location: KK. Not in Adler.

Comment on the book on pp. ??? and [302]. "Immensely entertaining . . . ."

B 183G I LIKE PEOPLE (1954)
I LIKE PEOPLE | The Autobiography of | Grove Patterson | Editor-in-Chief | of The Toledo Blade | Random House New York

On copyright page: 'First Printing | Copyright, 1948, 1954'. 8" x 5-5/16". Cream paper-covered boards flecked with blue, dark blue cloth spine with cream paper label printed in black. Locations: KK, RPB, RJS. Adler 292.

Quotations from letters, pp. 276-78.

B 184 Review copy has slip laid in.

B 184A FRAGMENTS (1955)
Carl Van Vechten | FRAGMENTS | from an unwritten autobiography | VOLUME I [the I centered with respect to prior word, which is in small caps] | New Haven: Yale University Library, 1955

First of two volumes, boxed. On p. [G]: 'These papers first appeared in the | YALE UNIVERSITY LIBRARY GAZETTE | . . . | They are here reprinted in honor of their author's seventy-fifth birthday, June 17, 1955.' 6-5/16" x 4-1/4". Red cloth stamped in gilt on spine. Locations: RJS, GHT. Previously published (YULG, April 1950); not in Adler.

Excerpts from letters in 'Random Notes on | Mr. Mencken of Baltimore', pp. [49]-[65].

B 185A THE REPUBLICANS (1956)
THE REPUBLICANS | A History of Their Party | by | MALCOLM MOOS | [elephant] | [RH device] | RANDOM HOUSE | NEW YORK

On copyright page: 'FIRST EDITION | © Copyright, 1956'. 8-5/16" x 5-1/2". Black cloth stamped in grey and gold. Locations: MChB, GHT. Previously published (Baltimore Evening Sun, 12 June 1928; Sun, 7 November 1948); not in Adler.

Excerpts from "Air of Deceit and Fraud Pervades . . ." and "Truman's Election . . .," pp. 372, 446-47.

B 185B THE CORONARY CLUB (1956)
[red, open capitals] THE | CORONARY | CLUB | [black] A CHEERFUL TALE | by Herbert Faulkner West | [device: rose bush with spade and bird, in red] | Hanover, New Hampshire | WESTHOLM PUBLICATIONS | 1956

9-3/16" x 5-7/8". Heavy gray paper wrappers printed in black and red. 500 hardbound copies reprinted in 1962. Locations: KK, RJS. Not in Adler.

Letter from Mencken (28 August 1947), pp. 17-18.

B 185G SOUTHERN BELLE (1957)
Southern Belle | By MARY CRAIG SINCLAIR | with a Foreword by Upton Sinclair | [squiggly pattern] | CROWN PUBLISHERS, INC., NEW YORK

On copyright page: '© 1957'. 8-5/16" x 5-5/8". Light blue cloth spine stamped in black, red paper-covered boards. Reprinted as "Memorial Edition" with preface and additions Phoenix, Ariz.: Sinclair Press, 1962; in paperback as Banner Book Jackson: Univ. Press of Mississippi, [1999]. Locations: KK, MMeT. Not in Adler.

Quotations from letters to Upton Sinclair, pp. 294-97.

B 188 This may be the second state. The leaf with an account of the 1959 season (and Mencken's drawings on the verso) was tipped in. Additional location: RJS.

B 188A THE WRITER'S CRAFT (1958)
B 188A.1 First printing (1958)

Frederic A. Birmingham | The Writer's Craft | Write Away! | - A FIRST COMMANDMENT FOR WRITERS | HAWTHORN BOOKS, INC. | PUBLISHERS, NEW YORK

On copyright page: 'FIRST EDITION, April 1958'. 8-15/16" x 5-15/16". Gray cloth-covered boards, rust spine stamped in silver. Locations: MChB, KK. Previously published (Chrestomathy; Esquire, January 1944; Baltimore Evening Sun, 5 July 1921); not in Adler.

Quotations from A Mencken Chrestomathy, pp. 31, 83-84, 164-65; excerpt from "Obsequies in the Grand Manner," pp. 49-51; "How Legends are Made," p. 115.

B 188A.2 First English printing (1959)

Frederic A. Birmingham | The Writer's Craft | Write Away! | - A FIRST COMMANDMENT FOR WRITERS | ARTHUR BARKER LIMITED | LONDON

On copyright page: '© First published in Great Britain 1959'. 8-7/8" x 5-3/4". Red paper-covered boards stamped in black on spine. Location: GHT.

Quotations from A Mencken Chrestomathy, pp. 31, 83-84, 164-65; excerpt from "Obsequies in the Grand Manner," pp. 49-51; "How Legends are Made," p. 115.

B 191.1 11-15/16" x 9". Additional Locations: GHT, RJS.

B 192 . . . in gold, black, gray, and red] . . . 9-3/4" x 6-3/4" . . . Additional Location: RJS.

B 193A BREWED IN AMERICA (1962)
[p. [iv]:] Brewed || [p. [v]:] in America [lower case represents small caps] | A History of | Beer and Ale in the United States | [grain] | BY [small caps] Stanley Baron | LITTLE, BROWN AND COMPANY . BOSTON . TORONTO [dots raised]

On copyright page: 'COPYRIGHT © 1962 . . . | . . . | FIRST EDITION'. 9-3/16" x 6-1/16". Brown cloth blindstamped on front, stamped in gilt on spine. Location: GHT. Previously published (American Mercury, February 1929, April 1932).

Quotations from "Editorial" and "What is Going on in the World," pp. 319-20.

B 193B MORE LIVES THAN ONE (1962)
MORE LIVES | THAN | ONE | Joseph Wood Krutch | [rule] | [nine solid triangles in three rows] | 1962 | William Sloane Associates | NEW YORK

8-5/16" x 5-1/2". Green paper-covered boards stamped in gilt on front, black cloth spine stamped in gilt, red, and green. Second printing October 1962. Location: KK. "Was Europe" previously published (Nation, 3 October 1934).

Quotations from letters, "Was Europe a Success?," and another essay, pp. 113, 122-23, 154, 242-43, 261, 316.

B 194 8-7/16" x 5-7/16". . . . Reprinted New York: Capricorn, 1964, paperback. Additional location: RJS.

B 194A THE LANGUAGE OF IDEAS (1963)
THE | LANGUAGE | OF IDEAS | [row of ornaments] | Edited by | William F. Irmscher | and | E. R. Hagemann | the BOBBS-MERRILL company, inc. [lower case represents small caps] | A SUBSIDIARY OF HOWARD W. SAMS & CO., INC. | Publishers . INDIANAPOLIS . NEW YORK [dots raised] [ornament to left of last three lines]

On copyright page: 'Copyright © 1963 . . . | . . . | First Printing'. 8-15/16" x 5-7/8". Gray cloth over upper half of boards and spine, rust cloth over lower, stamped in gilt. At least two printings. Locations: MSaT, GHT. Previously published (New Yorker, 1 October 1949).

'Postscripts to the American Language: The Life and Times of O.K.' ("The Life and Times of O.K."), pp. 147-54.

B 194B A CORNER OF CHICAGO (1963)
Robert Hardy Andrews | A Corner of | Chicago | Little, Brown and Company . Boston . Toronto [dots raised]

On copyright page: 'COPYRIGHT © 1963 . . . | . . . | FIRST EDITION'. 8-3/16" x 5-7/16". Orange cloth blindstamped on front, stamped in gilt on spine. Locations: MBU, GHT. Essay previously published (American Mercury).

Quotation from American Mercury 1933, p. [2]; quotations from letters to Andrews, pp. 96, 174, 175.

B 196 Additional location: MNodS.

B 197.2 . . . Black or dark brown cloth . . .

B 198 Reprinted January 1970.

B 199 Reprinted 1966. Additional location: RJS.

B 200A BORN IN A BOOKSHOP (1965)
[stylized cherub] | [in box with round edges] Born | in a | Bookshop | Chapters from the Chicago Renaissance | [below box] by Vincent Starrett | UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA PRESS : NORMAN

On copyright page: 'Copyright 1965 . . . | . . . | . . . First edition.' 9" x 6". Red cloth stamped in black and silver on spine. Review copy has slip laid in. Locations: RJS, MBNU. One letter previously published in Forgue; S1.28.

Letters from Mencken, pp. 156-58.

B 201 The | SMART SET . . .

B 202 Additional Penguin printings: 1982, 1983, 1985.

B 203A THE VIEW FROM THE SIXTIES (1966)
The View from the Sixties | Memories of a Spent Life | by | GEORGE OPPENHEIMER | DAVID McKAY [c small cap] COMPANY, Inc. [lower case represents small caps] | New York

On copyright page: '© 1966'. 8" x 5-1/4". Blue cloth stamped in dark blue. Locations: KK, MU.

Quotation from letter, p. 53.

B 204A HENRY CABOT LODGE (1967)
Henry | Cabot | Lodge | A Biography by William J. Miller | H | James H. Heineman, Inc. | New York

On copyright page: 'First Printing 1967'. 9-9/16" x 6-5/8". Turquoise cloth stamped in gilt on spine. Locations: KK, MChB. Essay previously published (Vintage Mencken); S1.30; Bulsterbaum 223.

Quotations from "Lodge" and letters, pp. 64-65, 118, 411.

B 205A CARL VAN VECHTEN AND THE IRREVERENT DECADES (1968)
[all within box with convex corners] CARL VAN VECHTEN | and the | IRREVERENT | DECADES | [illustration in light purple: Leda and swan] | By Bruce Kellner | [lower case represents small caps] University of Oklahoma Press | [same] Norman

On copyright page: 'Copyright 1968 . . . | . . . | . . . First | edition.' 9" x 6". Maroon cloth blindstamped on front, stamped in red and white on spine. Locations: RJS, MChB. Review (American Mercury, November 1925) and two letters (105 and 111 from Forgue) previously published.

Letters, pp. 103, 105, 111, 142-44, 165, 286; excerpt from review of Firecrackers ("Fiction Good and Bad"), p. 173.

B 205B GUARDIAN OF OUR MARYLAND HERITAGE (1968)
GUARDIAN | OF OUR MARYLAND | HERITAGE | The Maryland Room | Talbot County Free Library

On verso of front wrapper: 'Copyright 1968 | Talbot County Free Library | Easton, Maryland'. 10" x 8". Ivory wrappers printed in black. Locations: GHT, RJS, FTaSU (reclad).

Letters to Daniel M. Henry, pp. 46-48.

B 205C THE MOONEY CASE (1968)
THE | MOONEY CASE | [rule] | Richard H. Frost | Stanford University Press | Stanford, California | 1968

9-3/16" x 6". Red cloth blindstamped on front, spine stamped in gilt and black. Locations: GHT, MU.

Quotation from 25 October 1928 letter to Mooney, p. 378.

B 207 Reprinted Greenwich, Conn.: Fawcett, 1973; Mattiluck, N.Y.: Amereon House, 1987.

B 208 . . . Wheeler, | Biologist. . . . 9-1/4" x 6". Additional location: GHT.

B 208A A TALENT FOR LIVING (1970)
A TALENT FOR LIVING | [rule over wavy line] | The Story of Henry Sell, | An American Original | by JANET LECKIE | Hawthorn Books, Inc. [small caps] PUBLISHERS New York

On copyright page: 'Copyright © 1970 . . . | . . . | 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10'. 9" x 7-5/16". Beige paper-covered boards, green spine stamped in gilt. Locations: MBE, RJS.

Exchange of letters with Sell, p. 194.

B 208B F. SCOTT FITZGERALD IN HIS OWN TIME (1971)
F Scott Fitzgerald [script] | In His Own Time: A Miscellany | EDITED BY | Matthew J. Bruccoli | University of South Carolina | Jackson R. Bryer | University of Maryland | The Kent State University Press

On copyright page: 'Copyright © 1971 . . . | . . . | First edition'. 9" x 6". Top third white cloth stamped in black, bottom two-thirds black cloth stamped in pink. Reprinted New York: Popular Library, [1971]; Toronto: Popular Library, [1971]. Locations: MChB (rebound), InU (2), KK (2), GHT. Previously published (Smart Set, August 1920; Baltimore Evening Sun, 2 May 1925).

'This Side of Paradise: Books More or Less Amusing' (a "shortened version" of the review) and 'The Great Gatsby' ("As H. L.M. Sees It"), pp. 311-12, 348-51.

B 211A FORD MADOX FORD: THE CRITICAL HERITAGE (1972)
FORD MADOX FORD | THE CRITICAL HERITAGE | Edited by | FRANK MacSHANE [ac small caps] | Dean, School of the Arts, Columbia University, New York | [rule] | LONDON AND BOSTON: ROUTLEDGE AND KEGAN PAUL

On copyright page: 'First published 1972'. 8-7/16" x 5-5/16". Light blue cloth stamped in gilt on spine. Locations: MChB, GHT. Previously published (American Mercury, April 1925).

Review of Joseph Conrad: A Personal Remembrance ("The Conrad Wake"), pp. 142-45.

B 211B AMERICA: AN ILLUSTRATED DIARY (1972)
AMERICA [in arc] | An Illustrated Diary | of Its | Most Exciting Years | GANGSTERS | AND GANGBUSTERS | BOOK I

Vol. 3 of 21 (Valencia, Cal.: A. F. E. Press, 1972, on copyright page). 10-5/8" x 8-1/2". Dark blue cloth stamped in gilt. Location: KK. Previously published (Liberty, 28 July 1934).

'What To Do With Criminals', pp. 127-31.

B 211C H. G. WELLS THE CRITICAL HERITAGE (1972)
H. G. WELLS | THE CRITICAL HERITAGE | Edited by | PATRICK PARRINDER | Fellow of King's College, Cambridge | [rule] | ROUTLEDGE & KEGAN PAUL LONDON AND BOSTON

On copyright page: 'First published 1972'. 8-7/16" x 5-3/8". Medium blue cloth stamped in gilt on spine. Locations: MChB, GHT. Previously published (Smart Set, July 1910); American Mercury, December 1926).

'H. L. Mencken, review in Smart Set' ("A Fictioneer of the Laboratory") and 'H. L. Mencken, review in American Mercury ("Wells Redivivus"), pp. 178-80, 282-85.

B 214D THE ELEVENTH HOUSE (1975)
HUDSON STRODE | The | Eleventh | House | [rule] | MEMOIRS | [HBJ device] | New York and London | HARCOURT BRACE JOVANOVICH

On copyright page: 'Copyright © 1975 . . . | . . . | First edition | B C D E'. 9-1/8" x 6". Green cloth stamped in copper on spine. Locations: KK, MU.

Quotations from letters of Mencken to Strode, pp. 127-29.

B 214E UPTON SINCLAIR: AMERICAN REBEL (1975)
UPTON SINCLAIR: | American Rebel | Leon Harris | THOMAS Y. CROWELL COMPANY | NEW YORK ESTABLISHED 1834

On copyright page: 'Copyright © 1975 . . . | . . . | 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10'. 8-15/16" x 5-15/16". Grayish white cloth stamped in brown and copper on spine. Review copy has photos and sheet laid in. Locations: MBNU, KK, RJS. Reviews and essays previously published (Smart Set, April 1920 and May 1923; Baltimore Evening Sun, 23 February 1924; Books Abroad, July 1932; American Mercury, May and June 1936 [cf. B 194, B 225G]).

Letters of 26 February 1918, 23 and 28 February 1920; quotations from "On Journalism," "Nordic Blond Art-IV," and review of The Goslings; letters of 21 August 1926, n.d. (1926), 1 September 1926, 2 January 1929, and 22 February 1930; quotations from "Prodding the Nobel Prize Committee," "New Deal Mentality," and an American Mercury exchange, pp. 163, 180, 206, 209, 224, 254, 272, 327-28.

B 214G THE PRESIDENT SPEAKS OFF-THE-RECORD (1976)
From Grover Cleveland to Gerald Ford . . . | [gridiron] THE | PRESIDENT | SPEAKS | OFF-THE-RECORD | HISTORIC EVENINGS WITH AMERICA'S LEADERS, | THE PRESIDENT, AND OTHER MEN OF POWER, | AT WASHINGTON'S EXCLUSIVE GRIDIRON CLUB | BY | Harold Brayman | [DJ device] | DOW JONES BOOKS Princeton, New Jersey

On copyright page: 'Copyright © 1976 . . . | . . . | 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1'. 9-3/16" x 6-1/16". Blue cloth stamped in gilt. Locations: MChB, KK.

Excerpt from Mencken's Gridiron Club speech of 8 December 1934, drawn from the Gridiron Record, pp. 255-57.

B 215A ERNEST HEMINGWAY: THE CRITICAL RECEPTION (1977)
Ernest Hemingway | [rule] | The Critical Reception | [rule] | Edited with an Introduction by | Robert O. Stephens | Burt Franklin & Co., Inc.

On copyright page: '© 1977'. (1) 8-13/16" x 5-5/8". Dark red cloth stamped in gilt on spine. Location: MChB (2). (2) 9" x 5-13/16". Orange, black, and sepia wrappers. Location: GHT. Previously published (American Mercury, May 1928, January 1930, December 1932).

Reviews of Men Without Women ("Fiction"), A Farewell to Arms ("Fiction by Adept Hands"), and Death in the Afternoon ("The Spanish Idea of a Good Time"), pp. 65, 97-98, 123-24.

B 216 . . . On p. [i]: 'The American Critical Tradition 5 [lower case represents small caps]'. . . . Additional location: GHT.

B 216A BESIEGED PATRIOT (1978)
BESIEGED | PATRIOT | Autobiographical episodes exposing Communism, | Traitorism and Zionism from the life of | GERALD L. K. SMITH | Edited by | Elna M. Smith | and | Charles F. Robertson | Elna M. Smith Foundation [row of periods] Eureka Springs, Arkansas 72632

On copyright page: 'Copyright © 1978'. Later issues: 'Elna M. Smith Foundation' covered by sticker: 'CHRISTIAN | NATIONALIST CRUSADE | P. O. BOX 202 | EUREKA SPRINGS, ARKANSAS 72632', or '[blue] C. N. C. | P.O. Box 202 | Eureka Springs, Ark. 72632'. 9" x 5-15/16". Navy blue pebbled paper-covered boards stamped in gilt on spine. Locations: KK, MU, RJS, GHT. Previously published (Baltimore Evening Sun, 7 September 1936).

'"Why Not Gerald"', pp. 42-43.

B 217A AMERICAN MANIFEST DESTINY (1979)
B 217A.1 First issue (1979)

AMERICAN | MANIFEST DESTINY | And | THE HOLOCAUSTS | Millions of People Exterminated | Where it Happened | When It Happened | How It Happened | Who Made It Happen | An Historical | and Sociological Encyclopedia | of | Domestic and Foreign Affairs | Conrad Grieb | Collating Documentarian | EXAMINER BOOKS | New York, N.Y.

On copyright page: 'Copyright © 1979'. 8-15/16" x 6". Heavy white glossy paper wrappers printed in black. Locations: OTU (rebound), GHT, NNF.

Facsimile of letter to Grieb of Jan 26, 1946, p. [vi].

B 217A.2 Second issue (n.d.)

As previous, but handstamped in purple on bottom of title page: 'LOGOS PRESS | Box 197 | Lamar, Ark. 72846 USA'. Location: RJS.

B 217B THE EDUCATION OF CAREY McWILLIAMS (1979)
[p.[4]:] by Carey McWilliams | [S&S device] || [p. [5]:] The Education of | Carey McWilliams | Education is that which remains after | one has forgotten all one has learned. | - SIR LEWIS NAMIER | SIMON AND SCHUSTER | NEW YORK

On copyright page: 'COPYRIGHT © 1978, 1979 . . . | . . . | 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10'. 9-3/16" x 6-1/16". (1) Dull red or (2) black paper-covered boards, dark beige cloth spine stamped in black. Locations: MChB, KK.

Quotations from letters, pp. 50-52.

B 217C 1929: AMERICA BEFORE THE CRASH
1929 | [sixteen rules] | America Before the Crash | by Warren Sloat | MACMILLAN PUBLISHING CO., INC. New York

On copyright page: 'First Printing 1979'. 9-1/4" x 6-1/8". Blue cloth stamped in silver on spine and back. Locations: KK, MChB. Previously published (American Mercury, March 1929, June 1929).

Quotations from "A City in Moronia" and "What Is It All About," pp. 6-7.

B 218 Uncorrected proof copy in red wrappers. Reprinted for the Literary Guild 1980. . . Photo of inscription in the copy of Prejudices: Second Series (A24) presented to Fitzgerald (1920), letters of 26 October 1921 and 16 April 1925, pp. 74, 87, 158.

B 219E SIX FAVORITES (1982)
SIX | FAVORITES | by | ROBERT A. WILSON | New York | Christmas 1982

Page [20]: 'SIX FAVORITES | was printed in an edition of | 300 copies | as a holiday greeting from | Bob Wilson | and | The Phoenix Bookshop | None is for sale | Typography and Layout | by | Kenneth J. Doubrava'. 6-13/16" x 4-15/16". Blue wrappers printed in black. Locations: RJS, KK.

Facsimile of inscription by Mencken, p. [9].

B 219F AMERICAN DIARIES (1982)
[all within ornate frame] THEODORE | DREISER | [ornament] | AMERICAN | DIARIES | 1902-1926 | Edited by | THOMAS P. RIGGIO | [ornament] | Textual Editor | JAMES L. W. WEST III | General Editor | NEDA M. WESTLAKE | [UPP device] | University of Pennsylvania Press | Philadelphia 1982

8-15/16" x 6". Rust paper-covered boards, black cloth spine stamped in gilt. Locations: MChB, RJS. Second (corrected) printing 1983, hardback and paperback.

Letter, p. 139. Cf. Dreiser-Mencken Letters (A 76), 1: 220 (9 February 1916).

B 219G A MANHATTAN ODYSSEY (1982)
HERMAN G. WEINBERG | A MANHATTAN ODYSSEY | A Memoir | ANTHOLOGY FILM ARCHIVES | New York 1982

8-1/2" x 5-3/8". Black cloth stamped with gold on spine. Locations: GHT, VtMiM.

Quotation from letter, p. 48.

B 219H OLD HICKORY'S TOWN (1982)
OLD HICKORY'S TOWN | AN ILLUSTRATED HISTORY OF JACKSONVILLE | BY JAMES ROBERTSON WARD | in association with | DENA ELIZABETH SNODGRASS | Research Historian, Jacksonville Historical Society | Florida Publishing Company, Jacksonville, Florida | 1982

On copyright page: 'First Edition'. 12" x 9". Maroon cloth stamped in black. Reprinted Jacksonville: Old Hickory's Town, 1985. Locations: KK, MWiW. Previously published (Newspaper Days [A 51]; Baltimore Morning Herald, 13 May 1901).

Excerpts from "The Gospel of Service," "Entry into the Stricken City . . .," and "Commissary Officers Surprised . . .," pp. 175-77, 183-86.

B 221 The first thirteen volumes were republished January 2003, later printed to order (bound): [Whitefish, Mont.: Kessinger, 2003].

B 222A IRVIN S. COBB (1984)
Irvin S. Cobb | Anita Lawson | Bowling Green State University Popular Press | Bowling Green, Ohio 43403

On copyright page: 'Copyright [raised c] 1984'. 9" x 5-7/8". Green cloth stamped in gold on spine. Locations: GHT, NjP, MWalB. Previously published (Smart Set, March 1916).

From "The Great American Art," pp. 167-68.

B 222B BALTIMORE POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE (1984)
BALTIMORE | POLYTECHIC | INSTITUTE: | The First Century | M. HOWELL GRISWOLD | Poly Class of 1939

On copyright page: 'Published and designed by NPS, Inc., for the Baltimore Polytechnic Centennial Committee, Baltimore, Maryland, May 1984'. 12" x 9". Blue buckram blindstamped on front and spine, with inset photo of BPI seal on front. Locations: KK, RJS. "The Educational Process" previously published (Heathen Days).

Quotations from "Souvenirs of Childhood & School Days: 1880-1896" (Scrapbook F178) and "Heathen Days: Additions, Corrections, and Explanatory Notes" (MS), 'IV. THE EDUCATIONAL PROCESS 1896', pp. 298-305.

B 222C TWENTIETH-CENTURY LITERARY CRITICISM (1984)
ISSN 0276-8178 | Volume 13 | Twentieth-Century | Literary Criticism | Excerpts from Criticism of the | Works of Novelists, Poets, Playwrights, | Short Story Writers, and Other Creative Writers | Who Died Between 1900 and 1960, | from the First Published Critical Appraisals | to Current Evaluations | Dennis Poupard | James E. Person, Jr. | Editors | Thomas Ligotti | Associate Editor | Gale Research Company | Book Tower | Detroit, Michigan 48226

On copyright page: 'Copyright © 1984'. 11" x 8-1/2". Brown cloth stamped in gilt and black. Article on Mencken, pp. 255-98. Representative volume; others in the series have contributions by Mencken. Location: MChB. Previously published (B 76; A 16; American Mercury, May 1924; A 67; A 65).

Excerpts from "Emperor of Wowsers," "Joseph Conrad," "Two Views of Russia," "Consolation--I--An American Novel," and letter to Burton Rascoe of summer 1920, pp. 93-94, 101-02, 214-15, 325-27, 360-61.

B 223 Reprinted Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins Univ., [1998], paperback.

B 223D TWENTIETH-CENTURY AMERICAN LITERATURE (1986)
[rule] The [rule] | CHELSEA HOUSE LIBRARY | of LITERARY CRITICISM | [rule with ornament overlaid] | TWENTIETH-CENTURY | AMERICAN LITERATURE | Volume 3 | General Editor | HAROLD BLOOM | 1986 | Chelsea House Publishers [lower case represents small caps] | New York | New Haven Philadelphia

11" x 8-1/2". Red cloth stamped in silver. Location: MChB. Previously published (Smart Set, August 1920; Prejudices: First Series; American Mercury, August 1933; Prejudices: Fifth Series).

From "Books More or Less Amusing--II," from "Six Members of the Institute," 'General' ("A Southern Skeptic," on Ellen Glasgow), and from "Four Makers of Tales," pp. 1383, 1566, 1615, 1866-68.

B 223E A MACHINE THAT WOULD GO OF ITSELF (1986)
A MACHINE | THAT WOULD | GO OF ITSELF | [ornamental thick-thin rule] | The Constitution in | American Culture | [ornamental thick-thin rule] | Michael Kammen | [Borzoi device] | Alfred A. Knopf New York 1986

On copyright page: 'FIRST EDITION'. 9-1/4" x 6-1/4". Maroon paper-covered boards and blue cloth spine, stamped in gilt. Five printings by February 1987. Reprinted New York: Random House, [September 1987], Vintage Book Edition; New York: St. Martins, [1994], wrappers. Locations: KK, RPB. Appendix previously published (Reader's Digest, July 1937 [condensed from American Mercury, June 1937]).

Letter to James M. Beck of 12 December 1924 and 'APPENDIX C | "A Constitution for the New Deal," | by H. L. Mencken', pp. 337, 407-09.

B 223G WRITING DAY BY DAY (1987)
Writing | Day by Day | [rule] | 101 Complete Short Essays | ROBERT ATWAN | Seton Hall University | WILLIAM VESTERMAN | Rutgers University | [the rest is to the right of H&R device] HARPER & ROW, PUBLISHERS, New York | Cambridge, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Washington, | London, Mexico City, São Paulo, Singapore, Sydney

On copyright page: 'Copyright © 1987 . . . | . . . | 86 87 88 89 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1'. 8-3/16" x 5-1/2". White wrappers printed in red, black, and gray. Three printings noted. Locations: MBr, GHT. Previously published (Bode, Young Mencken; Prejudices: Sixth Series; Liberty, 27 October 1934).

'Mother's Day' (from "Answers to Correspondents"), 'Criminology' (from "Dives into Quackery"), and 'Why Nobody Loves | a Politician', pp. 314, 316-19, 321-26.

B 224 Delete entry. See B 218.

B 224A DOS PASSOS: THE CRITICAL HERITAGE (1988)
DOS PASSOS | THE CRITICAL HERITAGE | Edited by | BARRY MAINE | Assistant Professor of English | Wake Forest University | [rule] | ROUTLEDGE | LONDON AND NEW YORK

On copyright page: 'First published in 1988'. 8-7/16" x 5-1/4". Blue cloth stamped in gilt on spine. Locations: GHT, MChB. Previously published (Smart Set, December 1921).

'H. L. Mencken, review, Smart Set' ("Variations of a Familiar Theme-5," review of Three Soldiers), pp. 51-53.

B 224B HAYSEEDS, MORALIZERS, AND METHODISTS (1988)
HAYSEEDS, | MORALIZERS, AND | METHODISTS | The Twentieth-Century Image of Kansas | ROBERT SMITH BADER | [device: sunburst] | University Press of Kansas

On copyright page: '© 1988 . . . | . . . | 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1'. 8-15/16" x 5-7/16". Orange cloth stamped in black on spine. Also published in paperback. Locations: MChB, GHT. Previously published (Smart Set April 1918, October 1909; American Mercury April 1927).

Quotations from "Business," "The Last of the Victorians," and "Man of God: American Style," pp. 54-55, 59.

B 224G PATRICK HENRY CALLAHAN (1989)
PATRICK HENRY CALLAHAN | (1866-1940) | PROGRESSIVE CATHOLIC LAYMAN IN THE AMERICAN SOUTH | William E. Ellis | Studies in American Religion | Volume 46 | The Edwin Mellen Press | Lewiston/Queenston/Lampeter

On copyright page: 'Copyright © 1989'. 8-15/16" x 5-15/16". Dark green cloth stamped in gilt. Locations: KK, MChB.

Quotations from letters to Callahan of 5 December 1936, various 1932-1935, and 10 June 1939, pp. 103-04, 111, 114-15.

B 225A THE LAST DANDY (1991)
THE LAST DANDY | RALPH BARTON | [self-portrait] | American Artist | 1891-1931 | Bruce Kellner | University of Missouri Press Columbia and London

On copyright page: 'Text copyright © 1991 . . . | . . . | 5 4 3 2 1 95 94 93 92 91'. Foreword by John Updike. 10" x 6-15/16". Light gray cloth stamped in gilt on spine. Review copies: (1) advance proofs, paperbound; (2) trade printing with slip laid in. Locations: MChB, RJS, GHT.

Quotations from letters to Barton of 30 December 1926, 6 December 1926, 10 May 1928, and 4 September 1928, pp. 152, 153, 176, 181-82.

B 225B WESTMINSTER'S CONFESSION (1991)
WESTMINSTER'S CONFESSION | The Abondonment of Van Til's Legacy | Gary North | Institute for Christian Economics | Tyler, Texas

On copyright page: 'Copyright . . . 1991'. 8-7/16" x 5-1/2". Dark blue paper-covered boards, texture of LG cloth, stamped in silver on spine. Locations: KK, RPB. Previously published (Baltimore Evening Sun, 18 January 1937).

'Dr. Fundamentalis', pp. 312-16

B 225G THE CAMPAIGN OF THE CENTURY (1992)
[p. [iv]:] [RH device] | RANDOM HOUSE | NEW YORK || [p. [v]:] [to right of four vertical wavy lines] THE | CAMPAIGN | OF THE | CENTURY | UPTON SINCLAIR'S RACE | [this line extending through the vertical lines] FOR GOVERNOR OF CALIFORNIA AND | THE BIRTH OF MEDIA POLITICS | Greg Mitchell | [horizontal wavy line passing through the verticals]

On copyright page: 'Copyright © 1992 . . . | . . . | 98765432 | First Edition'. 9-1/4" x 6". Boards two-thirds covered in deep red paper stamped in gilt on front, the rest red cloth stamped in gilt on spine. Review copy has slip laid in. Reprinted as paperback 1993. Locations: MChB, GHT. Letters of 28 January 1920 and 2 May 1936 previously published (Forgue); so too articles from Baltimore Evening Sun (10 September 1934) and American Mercury (May-July 1936).

Quotations from letters to Sinclair of 14 October 1918, 28 January 1920, and 7 February 1933, pp. 114-15; quotations from "Monday Article," pp. 115-16; quotations from "The New Deal Mentality," "Upton Sinclair vs. H. L. Mencken," "Sinclair vs. Mencken: Round II," and letter of 2 May 1936, pp. 564-65.

B 225H ALIAS S. S. VAN DINE (1992)
[all in a box with solid squares in the corners] ALIAS | [rule] | S. S. Van Dine [lower case represents small caps] | JOHN LOUGHERY | CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS | New York | MAXWELL MACMILLAN CANADA | Toronto | MAXWELL MACMILLAN INTERNATIONAL | New York Oxford Singapore Sydney

On copyright page: 'Copyright © 1992 . . . | . . . | 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1'. 9-1/4" x 6-1/8". Beige paper-covered boards, black cloth spine, stamped in gilt on spine and back. Locations: KK, MChB.

Quotations from letters to Willard HuntingtonWright 2 March 1914, Stanton Leeds 17 June 1918, George Sterling 10 June 1919, and Wright Autumn 1927, pp. 33-34, 139, 144, 196; uncredited quotations, pp. [vii], 21.

B 226A DLB YEARBOOK: 1993 (1994)
Dictionary of Literary Biography [superscript circled R] | Yearbook: 1993 | Edited by | James W. Hipp | George Garrett, Consulting Editor | A Bruccoli Clark Layman Book | Gale Research Inc. | Detroit, London

On copyright page: 'Copyright © 1994'. 10-15/16" x 8-5/16". Light greenish blue cloth stamped in blue and gilt. Location: MChB.

'Mencken and Nietzsche: | An Unpublished Excerpt from H. L. Mencken's | My Life as Author and Editor | Terry Teachout | New York Daily News', pp. 177-83.

B 227 . . . silver. Trade issue and limited issue with tipped-in limitation page signed by the editor, numbered 1 to 225, boxed with facsimile letter in envelope. Review copy is advance uncorrected proof. Reprinted [New York:] Plume, [February 1997], paperback. Additional location: KK.

B 228 Review copy has sheet laid in. Reprinted by Holt as an Owl Book Edition 1997.

B 228A GENIUS IN DISGUISE (1995)
[all in a box with squares in the corners] | THOMAS KUNKEL | [double rule] | GENIUS | IN DISGUISE | HAROLD ROSS OF | THE NEW YORKER | [Eustace Tilley] | [double rule] | [RH device] | RANDOM HOUSE | NEW YORK

On copyright page: 'Copyright © 1995 . . . | . . . | First Edition'. 9-3/16" x 6-1/4". Beige paper-covered boards, black cloth spine, stamped in gilt on front and spine. Advance uncorrected proof copy in wraps. Reprinted New York: Carroll & Graf, 1996, paperback. Locations: MChB, GHT. First letter previously published (Bode, Letters 373).

Quotations from letters to William Saroyan (25 January 1936) and Harold Ross (30 March 1943), pp. 133, 409.

B 228B THE COMPANY THEY KEPT (1995)
[red] The Company They Kept: [lower case represents small caps] | [black] Alfred A. and Blanche W. Knopf, Publishers | An Exhibition Catalog | Compiled by Cathy Henderson | Edited by Dave Oliphant | Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center [raised dot] The University of Texas at Austin

On copyright page: 'Copyright © 1995'. Errata slip. Contents also published in C 50. 10" x 6-7/8". Multicolored buff wrappers with portrait of AAK on front. Locations: RJS, GHT. Letters to Sinclair and Davis previously published (Forgue).

Inscription and quotations from letters to Upton Sinclair, Frank Harris, Anthony J. Buttitta, H. L. Davis, and AAK, pp. 32, 40, 45, 47, 49, 185, 188.

B 235 VIRGIL THOMSON (1997)
VIRGIL [decoration] | THOMSON | [decoration beside next two lines] COMPOSER | ON THE AISLE | ANTHONY TOMMASINI | W. W. NORTON & COMPANY [beside next two lines, which are in small caps] NEW YORK [over] LONDON

On copyright page: 'Copyright © 1997 . . . | . . . | First Edition | . . . | 1234567890'. 9-1/8" x 6-1/16". Red paper-covered boards blindstamped on front; black paper-covered spine stamped in either copper or gilt. Uncorrected proof copy in wraps. Reprinted as paperback 1998. Locations: GHT, MChB.

Quotation from letter of Mencken dated 23 October 1924, p. 298.

B 240 THE SMART SET (1998)
THE SMART SET: | GEORGE JEAN NATHAN | AND H. L. MENCKEN | THOMAS QUINN CURTISS | [the rest in box] [as white showing through black] [stylized hands] APPLAUSE [stylized hands] | NEW YORK [raised dot] LONDON

On copyright page: 'Copyright © 1998'. 9" x 5-15/16". Blue cloth stamped in gilt on spine. Review copy has slip and photo laid in. Locations: RJS, NjP, KK.

Various quotations from Smart Set and elsewhere, including a dialogue with Nathan, pp. 171-74, and two American Mercury items not collected in Americana 1925 or 1926, p. 227.

B 241 CHAOS, CREATIVITY, AND CULTURE (1998)
A SAMPLING OF CHICAGO IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY | CHAOS, CREATIVITY, | AND CULTURE | KENAN HEISE | [as white showing through black] GIBBS [raised dot] SMITH | [bird] P | [as white showing through black] PUBLISHER | SALT LAKE CITY

On copyright page: 'First Edition | 01 00 99 98 4 3 2 1 | . . . | . . . 1998'. 11" x 8-3/8". Gray cloth stamped in red. Locations: GHT, MAnP. Previously published (New York Evening Mail, 23 October 1917; Chicago Tribune, 28 October 1917).

'"CHICAGO, THE MOST CIVILIZED | CITY IN AMERICA"' ("Civilized Chicago"), pp. 37-40.

B 242 THE LIFE AND WORK OF LUDWIG LEWISOHN (1998)
THE LIFE | AND | WORK OF | LUDWIG LEWISOHN | VOLUME I | "A TOUCH OF WILDNESS" | [ornament] | Ralph Melnick | [device] | WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS | DETROIT

On copyright page: 'Copyright © 1998 . . . | . . . | 02 01 00 99 98 5 4 3 2 1'. 8-15/16" x 5-7/8". Violet cloth stamped in black. Reviews previously published (American Mercury, March 1927, July 1929). Locations: NjP, GHT.

Excerpts from letters to Lewisohn of 6 and 8 January 1927, reviews of The Case of Mr. Crump ("Portrait of a Lady") and Mid-Channel ("Man and the Universe"), and letters to Sinclair Lewis 7 June 1933, 20 and 28 May 1936, pp. 431, 434, 494-95, 626.

B 243 UNCLE ROBBIE (1999)
[beneath photo of Wilbert Robinson] UNCLE ROBBIE | Jack Kavanaugh & Norman Macht

On copyright page (verso of half title): 'Copyright © 1999 . . . | Published by The Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) | P.O. Box 93183, Cleveland, Ohio 44101'. 8-7/16" x 6". Multicolored pictorial wrappers. Locations: RJS, GHT.

Handwritten report on an 1896 Baltimore Orioles game, p. 27

B 249 F. SCOTT FITZGERALD'S THE GREAT GATSBY: A DOCUMENTARY VOLUME (2000)
Dictionary of Literary Biography[raised registration mark] [raised dot] Volume Two Hundred Nineteen | F. Scott Fitzgerald's | The Great Gatsby: | A Documentary Volume | Edited by | Matthew J. Bruccoli | A Bruccoli Clark Layman Book | The Gale Group | Detroit . San Francisco . London . Boston . Woodbridge, Conn. [medial dots raised]

On copyright page: 'Copyright © 2000'. 10-7/8" x 8-3/8". Light greenish blue cloth stamped in gilt and dark blue. Locations: MChB, MB. Previously published (B218; B181; American Mercury, July 1925).

Letter of 16 April 1925, 'As H.L.M. Sees It', and 'New Fiction', pp. 178, 194, 204-05.

B 250 H. L. MENCKEN: A DOCUMENTARY VOLUME (2000)
Dictionary of Literary Biography[raised registration mark] [raised dot] Volume Two Hundred Twenty-Two | H. L. Mencken | A Documentary Volume | Edited by | Richard J. Schrader | Boston College | A Bruccoli Clark Layman Book | The Gale Group | Detroit . San Francisco . London . Boston . Woodbridge, Conn. [medial dots raised]

On copyright page: 'Copyright © 2000'. 10-15/16" x 8-1/4". Light greenish blue cloth stamped in gilt and dark blue. Locations: RJS, MChB.

Many first-book-appearance and previously-published items in text and illustrations, passim.

B 251 THE CRITICAL RESPONSE TO GERTRUDE STEIN (2000)
The Critical Response | to Gertrude Stein | [rule, solid block, rule] | Edited by | Kirk Curnutt | Critical Responses in Arts and Letters, Number 36 | Cameron Northouse, Series Adviser | [GP device] | GREENWOOD PRESS | Westport, Connecticut [bullet] London

On copyright page: 'First published in 2000 | . . . | 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1'. 9-1/4" x 6". Black cloth stamped in red and silver. Locations: MChB, GHT. Previously published (Baltimore Sun, 6 June 1914; Vanity Fair, August 1923).

'"A Cubist Treatise."' and excerpt from '"Literary Survey."' ("The Ten Dullest Authors: A Symposium"), pp. 14-15, 247-48.

B 252 FAUNUS AUTUMN 2000 (2000)
Faunus [F in script, the rest small caps] | AUTUMN 2000 | SIX | The [T small cap] Journal of | the Friends of | Arthur Machen

On copyright page: 'Production by the Tartarus Press. | Printed by the Atheneum Press, Gateshead [Eng.].' 250 numbered copies. 8-3/16" x 4-15/16". Black cloth stamped in gilt. Locations: RJS, GHT. Previously published (Smart Set, August 1923).

'Mencken on Machen | from Smart Set' ("Biography and Other Fiction-III"), pp. 54-57.

B 253 A LIFE IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY (2000)
ARTHUR M. SCHLESINGER, JR. | [short rule] | A Life | IN THE | Twentieth Century | Innocent Beginnings, 1917-1950 | [ornament over porpoise] | Houghton Mifflin Company | Boston New York | 2000

On copyright page: 'QUM 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1'. 8-15/16" x 6-7/8". Black paper-covered boards, black cloth spine stamped in gilt. Location: GHT.

Letters to Knopf (cf. Bode, Letters 250-51) and A. M. S., Sr., pp. 57, 87, 88-89.

B 257 DLB YEARBOOK: 2000 (2001)
Dictionary of Literary Biography | Yearbook: 2000 | Edited by | Matthew J. Bruccoli | George Garrett, Contributing Editor | With the Assistance of George Parker Anderson | A Bruccoli Clark Layman Book | The Gale Group | Detroit . San Francisco . London . Boston . Woodbridge, Conn. [medial periods raised]

10-7/8" x 8-1/4". Light greenish blue cloth stamped in blue and gilt. Review copy noted with sticker on front cover: 'REVIEW COPY! | This copy is to be reviewed for American | Reference Books Annual 2001' (KK). Locations: GHT, RJS, MChB.

'H. L. Mencken's "Berlin, February, 1917" | Edited by Richard J. Schrader and | Vincent Fitzpatrick', pp. 195-213.

B 258 LILLIAN GISH (2001)
Lillian Gish | HER LEGEND, HER LIFE | Charles Affron | A LISA DREW BOOK | SCRIBNER | New York London Toronto Sydney Singapore [lower case represents small caps]

On copyright page: 'Copyright © 2001 . . . | . . . | 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2'. 9-3/16" x 6-1/16". White paper-covered boards, maroon paper-covered spine stamped in gilt. Advance uncorrected reader's proof in blue heavy-paper wrappers. Locations: MBNU, GHT.

Unpublished parts of the Diary and letters to Gish, pp. 219, 250, 271-73, 288, 292-93.

B 262 GERALD W. JOHNSON (2002)
Gerald W. Johnson | From Southern Liberal to National Conscience | Vincent Fitzpatrick | [fleur de lis to left of next two lines] Louisiana State University Press | Baton Rouge

On copyright page: 'Copyright © 2002 . . . | . . . | First printing | 11 10 09 08 07 06 05 04 03 02 | 5 4 3 2 1'. 9" x 5-15/16". Blue cloth stamped in silver on spine. Locations: RJS, MChB. All but letter previously published (Smart Set, September 1923; American Mercury, August 1926, March 1931; Baltimore Evening Sun, 20 August 1934).

Excerpts from "Répétition Générale," "The South Looks Ahead," "Uprising in the Confederacy," letter to Mrs. F. N. Gibson of 7 November 1932, and "Utopia Eat Utopia," pp. 52, 85, 119, 125, 141.

B 263 SINCLAIR LEWIS (2002)
[p. [iv]:] [beneath RH 75th anniversary device] RANDOM HOUSE [raised dot] NEW YORK || [p. [v]:] [first line superimposed over bottom of photo of Lewis] SINCLAIR LEWIS | [rule] Rebel from Main Street | Richard Lingeman

On copyright page: 'Copyright © 2002 . . . | . . . | FIRST EDITION'. 9-1/8" x 6-1/16". Black paper-covered boards, black cloth spine stamped in gilt. Advance uncorrected proof copy in wraps. Locations: GHT, MChB.

Quotations from letters to Lewis of 17 November 1922 and 28 November 1944, pp. 218, 486.

B 264 GREAT TALES OF TERROR (2002)
GREAT TALES | OF | TERROR | Edited and with | an Introduction by | S. T. Joshi | DOVER PUBLICATIONS, INC. | Mineola, New York

On copyright page: 'first published . . . in 2002'. 8-3/8" x 5-1/4". Multicolored glossy wrappers. Locations: L, GHT. Previously published (Smart Set, September 1917).

'The Window of Horrors', pp. 198-215.

B 265 TAMBOUR VOLUMES 1-8 (2002)
TAMBOUR | Volumes 1-8, a Facsimile Edition | Harold J. Salemson | Editor | Introduction by | Mark S. Morrisson and Jack Selzer | The University of Wisconsin Press

On copyright page; 'Madison, Wisconsin 53711 | . . . | Copyright © 2002 | . . . | 5 4 3 2 1'. 6-1/2" x 5-1/2". Wrappers printed in purple, two shades of lavender, and light yellow. Locations: GHT, RPB.

Quotation from letter to Salemson of 23 December [1930] on p. 38 of introduction and statement regarding Anatole France on pp. 29-30 of facsimile. Cf. C 20G.

B 267 MY ANTONIA (2003)
MY ANTONIA [initial A with acute accent] | Willa Cather | edited by Joseph R. Urgo | [Broadview device] | broadview literary texts

Information on copyright page includes Peterborough, Ont.: Broadview Press, 2003. 8-7/16" x 5-7/16". Pictorial wrappers printed in red, black, and sepia. Locations: RJS, GHT. Previously published (Smart Set, March 1919).

Review ("Mainly Fiction"), pp. 297-98.

B 268 GOD'S DEFENDERS (2003)
[within second of three concentric boxes, against light gray] GOD'S | DEFENDERS | [within middle box, against darker gray] What they Believe and | Why They Are Wrong | [within same, as white showing through black] WILLIAM JAMES [raised dot] G.K. CHESTERTON | T.S. ELIOT [raised dot] WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY | JERRY FALLWELL [raised dot] ANNIE DILLARD | C.S. LEWIS | [in second box, as white showing through black] S. T. JOSHI | [beneath boxes] [device] Prometheus Books [over double underline] | 59 John Glenn Drive | Amherst, New York 14228-2197

On copyright page: 'Published 2003 . . . | . . . | 07 06 05 04 03 5 4 3 2 1'. 8-15/16" x 5-15/16". Black cloth stamped in gilt on spine. Locations: KK, MU, GHT.

Quotations passim. B 275 THE LAST TITAN (2005)
JEROME LOVING | [photo of Dreiser] | The Last Titan | [French rule] | A Life of Theodore Dreiser | UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS | BERKELEY LOS ANGELES LONDON

On copyright page: '©2005 . . . | . . . | 14 13 12 11 10 09 08 07 06 05 | 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1'. 8-15/16" x 6-1/16". Gray paper-covered boards, black cloth spine stamped in silver. Advance uncorrected page proof in wrappers. Review copy has slip laid in. Locations: KK, MChB. Previously published (Bohemian, November 1909).

Excerpts from "In Defense of Profanity," p. 193.

B 276 AMERICAN PROPHET (2005)
AMERICAN | PROPHET | The Life & Work of | Carey McWilliams | PETER RICHARDSON | The University of Michigan Press ANN ARBOR

On copyright page: 'Copyright ... 2005 | ... | 2008 2007 2006 2005 4 3 2 1'. 8-15/16" x 5-15/16". Navy blue cloth spine stamped in silver, gray paper-covered boards. Locations: KK, MU. Essays and letter to Fante previously published (Smart Set, April 1920 [from Teachout biography]; American Mercury, February 1930; A 79).

Quotations from letters to McWilliams, pp. 62-64; from elsewhere, pp. 21, 53 ("Bierce Emerges From the Shadows"), 303 (Fante).

*C 1A "Joe and Bobs" (poem), Leslie's Weekly 90.2325 (31 March 1900): 250. Location: KK.

C 3G "On the Edge of Samar" (story), The Criterion 4.4 (July 1903): 17-18. Location: GHT.

C 10A "Et-Dukkehjemiana," The Theatre 12.114 (August 1910): 41-44, vi. Locations: GHT, RJS.

C 10G "Red-Headed Women," Roycroft 2.4 (June 1918): 116-17. Location: RJS.

C 13 Wrongly dated 1926 by Adler 144.

C 13A Letter to Auer in H. C. Auer, Jr., "Frank Harris," The Double-Dealer 2.7 (July 1921): 29. Location: KK.

C 13C Letter and blurb for The Double-Dealer, Youth: A Magazine of the Arts 1.1 (October 1921): 38, recto of back wrapper. Location: RJS.

C 18 Delete entry. See note in Adler 112.

C 18C B. F. Wilson, "H. L. Mencken Breaks the Long Silence" (interview), Motion Picture Classic 24.1 (September 1926): 16-17, 81. With caricature by Leo Kober. Location: GHT.

C 18D "Enviable Man, Says Mencken," San Francisco Bulletin, 17 November 1926: 1. On George Sterling. Location: S. T. Joshi.

C 18E "America's Most Distinctive Novelist--Sherwood Anderson," Vanity Fair 27.4 (December 1926): 88. Reprinted in F 29 (partial) and F 34B. Locations: MB, RJS.

C 18G Schuyler Patterson, "Agin Everything!" (interview), Success Magazine 11.4 (April 1927): 15, 111. Location: RJS.

C 19 . . . New York Times . . .

C 20G Contribution to "Anatole France: A Post-Mortem Five Years Later," Tambour 5 (November 1929): 29-30. 250 numbered copies. Facsimile in B 265. Location: MU.

C 21A "Editorial Policy of the American Mercury," The Writers 1930 Yearbook & Market Guide: 43-44. Partially reprinted in B 91. Location: GHT.

C 22A Letter in "How I Shall Vote," Forum 88.5 (November 1932): 257. Location: GHT.

*C 22B Testimonial, The Bulletin 21.7 (February 1933): 2. Published monthly by San Quentin Prison inmates. Location: KK.

C 22C Fiftieth anniversary tribute, Etude 51.10 (October 1933): 651. Locations: KK, RJS.

C 22D Sheila[h] Graham, "Mencken Sees Tranquility Arise in U. S. from Ashes of Prohibition," Detroit Sunday Times, 12 November 1933. Probably syndicated from the New York Mirror or New York Evening Journal, for whom she freelanced in 1933-1934. Reprinted in Menckeniana 153.12-14. Location: Keith O. Edwards.

C 22E "Our Footloose Correspondents" (signed M. R. C.), New Yorker 10.12 (5 May 1934): 105-07. Thurber cartoon with Mencken on p. 21. See Bode, Letters 311. Location: RJS.

C 22F Contribution in Emily A. Farr, "Scribblers' Corner," Junior League Magazine 20.9 (June 1934): 58. Location: MB

C 22G Contribution in Herman Bernstein, "Can We Abolish War," Liberty 11.46 (17 November 1934): 20-21. Reprinted in B 117A. Location: GHT

C 22K Letter, Commonwealth College Fortnightly 11.7 (1 April 1935): 2-3. Partially reprinted in B 125B. Location: ArU.

C 25G Letter, Southern Literary Messenger 1.1 (January 1939): 87. Location: RJS.

C 25H Contribution to "The Challenge to Democracy Reaches Over Here," Survey Graphic 28.2 (February 1939): 155. Location: RJS.

C 27G Letter, Nation 156.19 (8 May 1943): 684. Location: GHT.

C 27K Excerpts from letters in Carl Van Vechten, "Random Notes on Mr. Mencken of Baltimore," Yale University Library Gazette 24.4 (April 1950): 165-71. Reprinted in B 184A. Bulsterbaum 108. Location: ?

C 27M Quotations from Convention reports in Julius Westheimer, "H. L. Mencken at the Conventions," Baltimore Sunday Sun Magazine, 19 August 1956: 17. Preceded A 63. Location: KK.

C 30 Quotations from letters to Upton Sinclair in David A. Remley, "Upton Sinclair and H. L. Mencken in Correspondence: An Illustration of How Not to Agree," Southern California Quarterly 56.4 (Winter 1974): 337-58. Location: KK.

C 40 William E. Ellis, "Kentucky Catholic and Maryland Skeptic: The Correspondence of Colonel Patrick Henry Callahan and H. L. Mencken," The Filson Club History Quarterly 58.3 (July 1984): 336-48. Locations: GHT, RJS.

C 50 Cathy Henderson, comp., "The Company They Kept: Alfred A. and Blanche W. Knopf, Publishers," The Library Chronicle of the University of Texas at Austin 26.1/2 (1995): [1]-[280]. Contents identical to the exhibition catalog (B 228B). Location: GHT.

D 7.5 (1936?) 3" x 5" card: 'Please Change Your Mailing List | H. L. MENCKEN'S | address is | 1524 Hollins Street, Baltimore, Md. | Communications for him should NOT be addressed to | 704 Cathedral Street, Baltimore, or to The Sun Office, | Baltimore, or to The American Mercury.' Location: GHT.

D 15 The composition is dated 1920 by Mencken in A New Dictionary of Quotations (A 53), p. 37.

E 2 Single 8-3/16" x 5-1/2" leaf, glossy wove paper printed in brown, unpaginated. Second page continues text with same head, 40 lines, 7-7/8" (7-1/4") x 5".

E 2A THE CAPITAL IMPORTANCE OF EARLY OPERATION IN CANCER (1914?)
Head title: THE CAPITAL IMPORTANCE OF EARLY | OPERATION IN CANCER. | [Reprint from the Baltimore Evening Sun.] | [text follows] | [at bottom of second column] H. L. Mencken [lower case represents small caps]

11-1/2" x 5-5/8" sheet printed on one side.

Contents: Head title; text in two columns separated by vertical rule.

Typography and paper: 9-3/16" x 4-5/16"; 79 lines in right column. Wove paper.

Location: RJS.

Notes: From the "Free Lance" column of 22 January 1914; the broadside omits the last few items. Not in Adler.

E 3 Binding . . . linked] | HOLIDAY . . .
Additional location: KK.

E 5 8-3/8" x 5-1/2" folio, unpaginated, wove paper, remainder all text, no heads, 6-7/8" x 4", 46 lines.

E 14 Additional location: EPL (unstapled).

E 19A A BOOK REVIEW (1925?)
Cover title: A BOOK REVIEW | BY | H. L. MENCKEN | [Hoeber device] | REPRINTED BY PERMISSION FROM | THE EVENING SUN, BALTIMORE

Copyright page: None.

7" x 6": [1-4] = 4 pp.

[1]2 = 2 leaves.

Contents: p. 1: cover title; p. 2: ad for the book; pp. 3-4: text, headed by publication information on the book.

Typography and paper: 5-3/8" x 4-1/2"; 32 lines per page. No heads. Wove paper.

Binding: None.

Location: KK.

Notes: The text is a review of Pediatrics of the Past: An Anthology, ed. John Ruhräh (New York: Paul B. Hoeber, 1925), from the 8 August 1925 Evening Sun. Not in Adler.

E 22.1 First edition (?)

Cover title: [all within ornate frame] [woman in Spanish garb against oval with hanging foliage, red and black] | Is Juarez a Liability, or | Is It An Asset? | Two nationally known men | -Mencken and Leopold- | have expressed opinions | on this question-

Copyright page: None.

9-1/2" x 6": [1-4] = 4 pp.

[1]2 = 2 leaves.

Contents: p. 1: cover title; p. 2: comments of Mencken and Joseph F. Leopold; p. 3: on Los Angeles and El Paso; p. 4: plea for cooperation and an ad for Central Café, Juarez, Mexico.

Typography and paper: 7-7/8" x 4-5/8"; 43 lines on p. 3 (different number on each page). No heads. Section titles printed in orange. Wove paper.

Binding: None.

Location: KK.

Notes: The Mencken text is quotations . . . Adler). In this edition Mencken's remarks are dated simply "Times, Oct. 27." Cf. Thirty-five Years . . .

E 31 At EPL with two other forms: 8" x 5-1/2" on white laid paper and 8-1/2" x 5-1/2" on glossy wove paper (trial versions?).

E 33A THE BOOK TRADE (1930)
Head title: 'Reprinted from The Evening Sun, Baltimore, July 7, 1930 | The Book Trade | [rule] | By H. L. MENCKEN | [Copyright, 1930, by The Evening Sun. Republication without permission prohibited] | [text follows]'

16-9/16" x 5-7/16" sheet printed on one side.

Contents: text in two columns, double rule at bottom.

Typography and paper: 14-1/4" x 4-1/2"; 115 lines in right column below head title. Vertical rule between the columns. Wove paper.

Location: RJS.

Notes: West 197; not in Adler.

E 34A BEER (1933)
Cover title: '"BEER" | H L MENCKEN - WILLIAM LUNDELL | OCTOBER 18 1933'

Copyright page: None.

11" x 8-1/2": [1] 2-18 = 36 pp., mimeographed and paginated on rectos only.

Eighteen separate sheets.

Contents: pp. 1-18: text, headed '"BEER" | H. L. MENCKEN -- WILLIAM LUNDELL | OCTOBER 18 1933'; p. 18: 'EJ:HM:LD-10/17/33'.

Typography and paper: About 9-3/8" x 7" (right and left margins not justified); 28 lines per page. No heads. Wove paper.

Binding: Cover sheet only. All edges trimmed. Stapled at top left.

Locations: RAW, EPL.

Notes: Text of NBC radio interview. The RAW copy is autographed by Mencken. The sheets of the EPL copy are pasted on the album pages of his collected radio addresses. Adler 269.

E 34B WHAT IS AHEAD (1934)
Head title: 'WJZ AND BALTIMORE WHAT IS AHEAD | A TALK BY MR H L MENCKEN FROM STATION BAL BALTIMORE | ( ) ( ) | 7:15 - 7:30 PM APRIL 27 1934 FRIDAY'

Copyright page: None.

11" x 8-1/2": [1] 2-6 = 12 pp., mimeographed and paginated on rectos only.

Six separate sheets.

Contents: pp. 1-6: text.

Typography and paper: 9-5/8" x 7-1/8" (right margin not justified); 29 lines per page. No heads. Wove paper.

Binding: None. All edges trimmed. Stapled at top left.

Locations: RAW, EPL.

Notes: Text of NBC radio interview, with opening and closing announcements. The RAW copy is autographed by Mencken. The sheets of the EPL copy are pasted on the album pages of his collected radio addresses. Adler 269.

E 34C TWO YEARS OF THE BRAIN TRUST (1935)
Head title: 'H. L. MENCKEN | ( ) ( ) | 6:30-6:45 P. M. | FEBRUARY 26, 1935 TUESDAY'

Copyright page: None.

11" x 8-1/2": [1] 2-5 = 10 pp., mimeographed and paginated on rectos only.

Five separate sheets.

Contents: pp. 1-5: text; p. 5: 'LOWTHER | lh | 3-18-35'

Typography and paper: 9-7/8" x 7-1/8" (right margin not justified); 29 lines per page. No heads. Wove paper.

Binding: None. All edges trimmed. Stapled at top left.

Locations: RAW, EPL.

Notes: Text of NBC radio interview, with opening and closing announcements. The actual title is contained in the opening announcement. The RAW copy is autographed by Mencken. The sheets of the EPL copy are pasted on the album pages of his collected radio addresses. Adler 269.

E 39.2 Notes: GHT copy signed and dated by Jim Tully; EPL copy signed and dated by HLM.

E 40A AMERICAN SCHOOL OF THE AIR (1937)
Cover title: 'AMERICAN SCHOOL OF THE AIR | INTERVIEWWITH H. L. MENCKEN | Tuesday, November 16, 1937 2:30 - 3:00 P. M. EST. | Note: This script is the property | of the American School of | the Air. All radio and | other rights for performance | and publication reserved.'

Copyright page: None.

11" x 8-1/2": [1] 2-5 [6] 7-15 [16 ('INSERT A')] 17-24 = 48 pp., mimeographed and paginated on rectos only.

Twenty-four separate sheets.

Contents: pp. 1-13: text of Mencken interview on the American language, headed 'COLUMBIA BROADCASTING SYSTEM | AMERICAN SCHOOL OF THE AIR | INTERVIEW WITH H. L. MENCKEN | TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1937 | 2:30 -3:00 P.M. EST'; pp. 13-24: interviews with dialect speakers; p. 24: 'ej | mh | ln'.

Typography and paper: 8-7/8" x 6-5/8" (right margin not justified); 24 lines per page. No heads. Wove paper.

Binding: Cover sheet only. All edges trimmed.

Location: EPL.

Notes: Text of CBS radio interviews with Cabell Greet, with opening and closing announcements. The sheets of the EPL copy are pasted on the album pages of his collected radio addresses. Xerox of another copy seen. Adler 270.

E 54 Title page: . . . MENCKEN | [below box] CHRISTMAS. . . .
7" x 4-1/2": [i-vi 1] 2-7 [8-10] = 16 pp.
Contents: pp. i-iv . . . v . . . vi . . . 1-7 . . . 8 . . . 9-10. . . .
Binding A: Decorated paper . . . greenish blue double rule box which is flanked right and left by a greenish blue ornament and star: 'In the Footsteps of Gutenberg [lower case in last word represents small caps]'. . . .
Binding B: Same, but brown and navy blue patterns on white.
Locations: EPL (binding A), GHT (binding B), KK (3, bindings A and B [2]), RJS (3, bindings A and B [2]).
Notes: Sent by members of the Princeton University Press staff, probably in an envelope like E 55, and signed by one or more below the colophon in most of the copies noted. Previously . . . [A 49]); S 1.10.

E 62 Additional location: RJS.
Notes: In the same year, the Book Club republished the Beasley book with an afterword by Larry McMurtry (500 copies); it was promoted by a brochure that quotes from Mencken's review.

F 1G THE THREE BLACK PENNYS (1917)
THE | THREE BLACK PENNYS | A NOVEL | BY | JOSEPH HERGESHEIMER | NEW YORK [Borzoi device over rule] MCMXVII | ALFRED [winged A] KNOPF

7-1/4" x 4-15/16". Brown cloth blindstamped front and back, stamped in gilt on spine. An additional blurb by Knopf claims that this is the first novel published by him. Locations: RJS (dj), MWC, GHT (dj). Not in Adler.

Blurb for the novel on back of dj.

F 1H THE DISGRACE OF DEMOCRACY (1917)
[cover title] [within box] THE DISGRACE OF | DEMOCRACY | [ornament] | OPEN LETTER TO | PRESIDENT WOODROW WILSON | BY | KELLY MILLER | HOWARD UNIVERSITY | WASHINGTON, D. C. | PRICE 10 CENTS

Privately published; the letter is dated 4 August 1917. 8-1/8" x 5-1/4". Grayish brown wrappers printed in black. Location: RJS. Previously published (New York Evening Mail, 19 September 1917); not in Adler; cf. Charles Scruggs, The Sage in Harlem: H. L. Mencken and the Black Writers of the 1920s (Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins Univ., 1984), pp. 54-55.

Blurb for the pamphlet from "Negro Spokesman Arises to Voice His Race's Wrongs" on verso of rear wrapper.

F 2 . . . dark blue. The same blurb appears on the rear of the dust jacket for McClure's The Stag's Hornbook (1918). . . . Additional location: GHT (dj).

F 2A OSCAR WILDE (1918)
F 2A.1 First edition (1918)

OSCAR WILDE | HIS LIFE AND | CONFESSIONS | BY | FRANK HARRIS | VOLUME I | PRINTED AND PUBLISHED | BY THE AUTHOR | 29 WAVERLEY PLACE NEW YORK CITY | MCMXVIII

7-13/16" x 5-5/16". Two-volume set. Green cloth stamped in gilt and blindstamped. Locations: KK (dj), MChB. Not in Adler.

Blurb on rear of dust jacket of first volume. "The book fills me with delight . . . ."

F 2A.2 Second edition (1959)

Frank Harris | [thick-thin rule] | OSCAR WILDE | Including | My Memories of Oscar Wilde | By George Bernard Shaw | And an Introductory Note | by Lyle Blair | Michigan State University Press | 1959

8-15/16" x 5-15/16". Yellow cloth stamped in red on spine. Locations: KK (dj), MChB. Review previously published (Smart Set, September 1916); not in Adler.

Blurb from "Portrait of a Tragic Comedian" and quotation from letter to Arthur L. Ross on front of dust jacket.

F 4A TEEPEE NEIGHBORS (1919?)
TEEPEE NEIGHBORS | BY | GRACE COOLIDGE | "Renown and grace are dead; | The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees | Is left." | MACBETH | [TFSC device] | [remaining lower case represents small caps] Boston | The Four Seas Company | 1917

Date inferred from ad on dust jacket. (1) 7-3/8" x 5". Ribbed maroon cloth stamped in gilt. (2) 7-5/16" x 4-15/16". Red cloth printed in black. Locations: CLLoy (binding 1), RJS (binding 2, dj). Previously printed (Smart Set, May 1918); not in Adler.

Blurb on front of dust jacket from "The Stream of Fiction-IV."

F 4G DOMNEI (1920)
Domnei | A Comedy of Woman-Worship | By | JAMES BRANCH CABELL | [rule] | "En cor gentil domnei per mort no passa." | [rule] NEW YORK | ROBERT M. McBRIDE & CO. | 1920

On copyright page: 'Revised Edition, Copyright, 1920, | . . . | Published, 1920'. 7-5/8" x 5-1/8". Brown cloth stamped in gilt. First published as The Soul of Melicent. Locations: RJS (dj), MChB. Previously published (Smart Set, August 1918); not in Adler.

Blurb on back of dust jacket (from "A Sub-Potomac Phenomenon").

F 4H FLAPPERS AND PHILOSOPHERS (1920)
FLAPPERS | AND PHILOSOPHERS | BY | F. SCOTT FITZGERALD | AUTHOR OF "THIS SIDE OF PARADISE" | NEW YORK | CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS | 1920

Published 10 September 1920. 7-7/16" x 5-1/8". Dark bluish green (1) B cloth or (2) T cloth blindstamped and stamped in gilt. Location: GHT (binding 1, dj from Bruccoli 30). Previously published (Smart Set, August 1920); not in Adler.

Excerpt from review of This Side of Paradise ("Books More or Less Amusing-II") on front flap of dust jacket.

F 5A ERIK DORN (1921)
[all in a box within a box] ERIK DORN | BY | BEN HECHT | [ornament] | G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS | NEW YORK AND LONDON | [gothic] The Knickerbocker Press | 1921

7-5/16" x 5". Green cloth stamped in maroon. Location: GHT (dj). Previously published (Smart Set, October 1921); not in Adler.

Blurb on back of (later state?) dust jacket from "Notes on Books--III" (review of the novel).

F 6A GOAT ALLEY (1922)
Goat Alley [lower case represents small caps] | A TRAGEDY OF NEGRO LIFE | By | ERNEST HOWARD CULBERTSON | [device] | CINCINNATI | STEWART KIDD COMPANY | PUBLISHERS

On copyright page: 'COPYRIGHT, 1922'. Introduction by Ludwig Lewisohn. 7-1/2" x 5-1/4". Blue cloth stamped in gilt on spine, gilt against a dark blue background and blindstamped on front. Locations: GHT (dj), RJS (dj), MWalB. Previously published?; not in Adler.

Blurb on front flap of dust jacket regarding Culbertson's observations on the Negro.

F 6B UP STREAM (1922)
UP STREAM | AN AMERICAN CHRONICLE | BY | LUDWIG LEWISOHN | [B&L device] | BONI [small caps] and LIVERIGHT | Publishers : New York [lower case represents small caps]

On copyright page: Fourth Printing, June, 1922'. 8-9/16" x 5-3/4". Blue cloth stamped in gilt and blindstamped. Earliest dust jacket located with the Mencken blurb is with a copy of the fourth printing. Location: GHT (dj). Previously published (Nation, 12 April 1922); not in Adler.

Blurb from "Dream and Awakening" on front flap of dust jacket.

F 7 Delete entry. See F 4H.

F 7A HELL (1923)
HELL | A Verse Drama and Photo-Play | [short rule] | by UPTON SINCLAIR | PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHOR | Pasadena, California

On copyright page: 'Copyright [lower case represents small caps], 1923'. Published May 1923. 6-9/16" x 4-1/16". Gray wrappers printed in black, unprinted on front verso and back recto. Locations: GHT, RJS. The verso of the back wrapper is unprinted in the Harv and MWalB copies and 'W. B. C.' not at bottom of p. 128. The same letter is printed on the back of the dj of Sinclair's The Goslings (published January 1924). John Ahouse, Upton Sinclair: A Descriptive, Annotated Bibliography (Los Angeles: Mercer & Aitchison, 1994), p. 51; not in Adler.

Letter concerning The Goose-Step on verso of back wrapper.

F 7B THE BLACK PARROT (1923)
THE | BLACK PARROT | A Tale of the Golden Chersonese | BY | HARRY HERVEY | AUTHOR OF "CARAVANS BY NIGHT," ETC. | ". . . You perceive, then, it is by the grace of | Romance that man has been exalted above the other | animals . . ." | James Branch Cabell [lower case represents small caps] | [Century device] | THE CENTURY CO. | NEW YORK & LONDON | 1923

7-3/8" x 5". Black cloth stamped in yellow and orange (red?), pictorial design on front and spine. Locations: KK (dj), Harv. Previously published (Smart Set April 1922); not in Adler.

Blurb from "Caravans by Night" on front flap of dust jacket.

F 8 [script] The | [gray] CREATIVE LIFE | LUDWIG LEWISOHN | [gray B&L device] | BONI and LIVERIGHT ['and' small caps] | [gray] Publishers New York | M C M X X I V . . . 8-1/8" x 5-1/2". Additional location: RJS (dj).

F 8A COUNTRY PEOPLE (1924)
[all in green frame] Country People | Ruth Suckow | [green Borzoi device in oval] | New York | Alfred . A . Knopf [dots raised] | 1924

On copyright page: 'Published, May, 1924'. 7-1/2" x 5-1/16". Black cloth blindstamped and stamped in pink and blue. Unjacketed copies noted in Borzoi boards with extra leaf tipped in to title page indicating one of 600 copies presented to booksellers at a convention of May 1924. Locations: RJS (dj), EPL. Previously published (Borzoi Broadside, May 1924); not in Adler.

Blurb on back of dust jacket.

F 8B STORIES FROM THE MIDLAND (1924)
Stories from | THE MIDLAND | Selected and edited by | JOHN T. FREDERICK | [Borzoi device in oval] | New York | ALFRED . A . KNOPF [periods raised] | 1924

On copyright page: 'Published March, 1924'. 7-7/16" x 5-1/8". Blue cloth stamped in white. Locations: KK (dj), MA. Previously published (Smart Set, July 1923); not in Adler.

Quotation from "Some New Books-IV" on The Midland on front of dust jacket.

F 8C JOSSLYN (1924)
JOSSLYN | The Story of an Incorrigible Dreamer | By | HENRY JUSTIN SMITH | Author of "Deadlines" | [C-McG device] | CHICAGO | COVICI-McGEE CO. | 1924

7-1/2" x 5". Olive green cloth stamped in copper. Locations: KK (dj), WMM. Previously published (Smart Set, March 1923); not in Adler.

Blurb from review of Deadlines ("Adventures Among Books") on rear of dust jacket.

F 11 Delete entry. See F 8A.

F 12A DARK LAUGHTER (1925)
[floral pattern] | [thin-thick rule] | DARK | LAUGHTER | [rule] | SHERWOOD ANDERSON | [rule] [B&L device] [rule] | NEW YORK MCMXXV | BONI & LIVERIGHT | [thick-thin rule] | [floral pattern upside down]

On copyright page: 'Fifth printing, November, 1925'. 7-3/8" x 5-1/8". Black cloth stamped in yellow and blindstamped. Earliest dust jacket located with the Mencken blurb is with a copy of the fifth printing. Location: KK (dj). Previously published (American Mercury, November 1925); not in Adler.

Quotation from "Fiction Good and Bad" on rear flap of dust jacket.

F 12B BEGGARS OF LIFE (1925)
Beggars of Life | by Jim Tully | ALBERT & CHARLES BONI | NEW YORK 1925

On copyright page: 'Copyright, 1924'. 8-1/2" x 5-7/16". Blue cloth stamped in gilt. Location: KK (dj). Previously published (American Mercury, December 1924); not in Adler.

Blurb for the novel (from "Brief Notices") on front of dust jacket, which states "SECOND LARGE PRINTING" on spine and back.

F 12C IN THE MIDST OF LIFE (1925?)
In the Midst of Life | Tales of Soldiers and Civilians | by Ambrose Bierce | [American Library device] | ALBERT & CHARLES BONI | NEW YORK 1924

Copyright page: 'Copyright, 1909, By [lower case represents small caps] | The Neale Publishing Company'. 7-5/16" x 5". Pink buckram stamped in gilt on spine and blindstamped with the AL device on front. Locations: KK (dj), NhMSA. Previously published (Chicago Tribune, 1 March 1925; American Mercury, May 1925); not in Adler.

Blurb from "Ambrose Bierce" on front flap of presumed later-state dust jacket.

F 12D MY LIFE (1925)
[all in a box] MY LIFE | BY | FRANK HARRIS | VOLUME 1. | [device] | FRANK HARRIS PUBLISHING CO. | 640 BROADWAY | NEW YORK

On copyright page: 'Copyright, 1925'. 9" x 5-15/16". Light brown paper-covered boards printed in black on front, olive green cloth spine printed in black. Locations: KK, CtHT. Previously published (Smart Set, February 1922); not in Adler.

Quotations from "Frank Harris and Others" regarding Contemporary Portraits, Oscar Wilde, and The Man Shakespeare, p. [2].

F 13 Delete entry. See F 4G.

F 15 Delete entry. See F12B. Change cross-references in F 22 and F 25.

F 16 On copyright page: 'Eight printing, February, 1926'. 7-1/4" x 5". Figured light green and cream paper-covered boards with label on front, dark green ribbed cloth spine stamped in gilt. . . . with a copy of the eighth printing. Location: KK (dj). . . .

F 17.1 . . . Previously . . .

F 17.2 Fourteenth printing (1926) . . . by WILL DURANT, ph.d. [b, p, and d small caps] . . . MCMXXVI . . . 'Fourteenth printing, November, 1926'. 9-3/16" x 6-1/4". . . . a copy of the fourteenth printing. Location: RJS (dj). . .

F 18A MICROBE HUNTERS (1926)
MICROBE HUNTERS | by | PAUL de [ de small caps] KRUIF | "The gods are frankly human, sharing in | the weaknesses of mankind, yet not un- | touched with a halo of divine Romance." | E. H. BLAKENEY. | [BRB device] | BLUE RIBBON BOOKS | NEW YORK

On copyright page: 'COPYRIGHT, 1926, BY | HARCOURT, BRACE AND COMPANY, INC.' Published 1926 (OCLC). 8-1/16" x 5-1/2". Blue cloth stamped in orange. Locations: KK (dj), MAnMC (rebound). Previously published (Nation, 3 March 1926); not in Adler.

Blurb on front of dust jacket.

F 18B THE CREAM OF THE JEST (1926)
THE | CREAM | OF | THE JEST | [rule] | A Comedy of Evasions | [rule] | BY | JAMES BRANCH CABELL | WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY | HAROLD WARD | Le pays où je voulais aller, tu m'y as mené | en songe, cette nuit, et tu étais belle . . . | ah! que tu étais belle! . . . Mais, comme | je n'ai aimé que ton ombre, tu me dispen- | seras, chère tête, de remercier ta réalité." | NEW YORK | ROBERT M. McBRIDE & COMPANY | 1926

On copyright page: 'Eighth Printing, November, 1926 | [rule] | Published September, 1917'. 7-9/16" x 5-3/16". Dark brown cloth stamped in gilt. Earliest dust jacket located with the Mencken blurb is with a copy of the eighth printing. Location: KK. Previously published (Smart Set, December 1917); not in Adler.

Blurb from "Critics Wild and Tame-IV" on front of dust jacket.

F 18C JEFFERSON (1926)
JEFFERSON | BY | ALBERT JAY NOCK | [HB device] | NEW YORK | HARCOURT, BRACE AND COMPANY

On copyright page: 'Published, June, 1926 | Second printing, November, 1926'. 8-1/16" x 5-1/2". Black cloth blindstamped on front and stamped in gilt on spine. The same blurb but with the preceding sentence added is on the back wrapper of the Hallberg Corp. edition (Delavan, Wisc., [March 1983]). Location: KK (dj). Previously published (American Mercury, September 1926); not in Adler.

Blurb from "The Immortal Democrat" on front flap of dust jacket.

F 18D ROUNDABOUT (1926)
[all in double rule box surrounded by decorations] ROUNDABOUT [open capitals] | by | NANCY HOYT | [Borzoi device in red] | NEW YORK | ALFRED [raised dot] A [raised dot] KNOPF | 1926

7-3/8" x 5-1/8". Red cloth stamped in gilt on front and spine, blindstamped on back. Locations: KK (dj), OKentU. Previously published (American Mercury, August 1926); not in Adler.

Quotation from review of the novel ("Fiction") on front flap of (later state?) dust jacket.

*F 18E IS IT GOD'S WORD (1926)
[within double rule box inside ornate frame] IS IT GOD'S WORD? | AN EXPOSITION OF THE FABLES AND | MYTHOLOGY OF THE BIBLE AND | THE FALLACIES OF THEOLOGY | BY JOSEPH WHELESS | [seven lines in italics describing author] | [Borzoi Books logo in oval] | "Behold, the false pen of the Scribes hath | wrought falsely"--Jeremiah VIII, 8 (R. V.) | NEW YORK | ALFRED A. KNOPF | MCMXXVI

9-1/8" x 6". Bright blue cloth blindstamped front and back, stamped in gilt on spine. Location: GHT (dj). Previously published (American Mercury, May 1926); not in Adler.

Quotation from "Counter-Offensive" on front of dust jacket.

F 23A GOD'S TROMBONES (1927)
[all in double rule box] God's Trombones | SEVEN NEGRO SERMONS IN VERSE | by | JAMES WELDON JOHNSON | DRAWINGS BY AARON DOUGLAS | LETTERING BY C. B. FALLS | [Viking device in yellow] | [small roman caps] NEW YORK The Viking Press [small roman caps] MCMXXVII

8-11/16" X 6-3/16". Gilt paper-covered boards stamped in black on front, black cloth front corners and spine (stamped in gilt). Locations: RJS (dj), InU-Li. Not in Adler.

Blurb on back of dust jacket. "H. L. Mencken calls Go Down Death (page 27) 'one of the most remarkable and moving poems of its type ever written in America.'"

F 23C THE NEW NEGRO (1927)
[first seven lines bordered left and right by a design of ten rows of three triangles] THE NEW NEGRO | AN INTERPRETATION | EDITED BY ALAIN LOCKE | BOOK | DECORATION | AND | PORTRAITS | BY | WINOLD | REISS | ALBERT AND CHARLES BONI | NEW YORK 1925

On copyright page: 'Published, December, 1925 | Second printing, March, 1927'. 8-5/8" x 5-7/8". Dark blue paper-covered boards with a cream square printed in blue, rough oatmeal cloth spine stamped in blue. Location: KK (fragment of dj). Previously published (American Mercury, February 1926); not in Adler.

Blurb from "The Aframerican: New Style" on dust jacket.

F 23D AMERICA COMES OF AGE (1927)
[rule] | AMERICA | COMES OF AGE | A FRENCH ANALYSIS by | ANDRÉ SIEGRIED | [rule] | TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH | by H. H. HEMMING | and DORIS HEMMING | [HB device] | New York | HARCOURT, BRACE AND COMPANY

On copyright page: 'Sixth Printing, December, 1927'. 8-5/8" x 5-11/16". Sepia cloth blindstamped on front and stamped in green on spine. Earliest dust jacket located with the Mencken blurb is with a copy of the sixth printing. Location: KK (dj). Previously published (Nation, 11 May 1927); not in Adler.

Blurb from "A Frenchman Takes a Look" on front of dust jacket.

F 23E THE PRESIDENT'S DAUGHTER (1927)
[wavy rule] | The President's [lower case represents small caps] | DAUGHTER by Nan Britton | [wavy rule] | Published by | ELIZABETH ANN | GUILD | Inc. [lower case represents small caps] | [ornament] | New York, U.S.A., 1927 [EAG device within triangle over wavy rule]

On copyright page: 'COPYRIGHT, 1927'. 8-11/16" x 5-13/16". Black cloth stamped in gilt. Locations: KK (dj), MChB. Previously published (Baltimore Evening Sun, 18 July 1927?); not in Adler.

Blurb (from "Saturnalia"?) on rear flap of later state dust jacket.

F 24 Stamped in gilt, reddish brown, and green. Additional location: RJS (dj). Previously published (Borzoi Broadside May 1924). Delete quotation. Also, on front flap, same blurb as in F 11.

F 27A TO YOUTH (1928)
[ornamental border] JOHN V. A. WEAVER | [green sprig] | TO YOUTH | [Borzoi device] | New York : Alfred.A.Knopf [dots raised] : 1928 | [ornamental border]

7-9/16" x 5". Paper-covered boards in shades of fuchsia and orange, yellow cloth spine stamped in maroon and green. Locations: GHT (dj), MNS, RJS (dj). Previously published (Smart Set, April 1921); not in Adler.

Blurb from "Notes on Poetry" on front of dust jacket.

F 27B RAINBOW ROUND MY SHOULDER (1928)
[rule] | RAINBOW ROUND | MY SHOULDER | [rule] | The Blue Trail of Black Ulysses | By | HOWARD W. ODUM | [illustration] | Decorations by Harry Knight | [rule] | INDIANAPOLIS | THE BOBBS-MERRILL COMPANY | PUBLISHERS | [rule]

On copyright page: 'Copyright [lower case represents small caps], 1928'. 8" x 5-1/4". Light green cloth stamped in pink. Locations: GHT (dj), MBU (2, rebound). Previously published (American Mercury, September 1928); not in Adler.

Blurb from review of the novel ("Black Boy") on yellow band wrapped around dust jacket.

F 27C THE MAN WHO KNEW COOLIDGE (1928)
THE MAN | WHO KNEW COOLIDGE | BEING THE SOUL OF LOWELL SCHMALTZ, | CONSTRUCTIVE AND NORDIC CITIZEN | BY | SINCLAIR LEWIS | [HB device] | NEW YORK | HARCOURT, BRACE AND COMPANY

On copyright page: 'COPYRIGHT, 1928'. 7-1/2" x 5-1/8". Blue cloth stamped in orange. Locations: RJS (dj), MChB. Previously published (American Mercury, April 1927); not in Adler.

Blurb from review of Elmer Gantry ("Man of God: American Style") on rear flap of dust jacket. Different from blurb on F 40.

F 27D THE LONG LEASH (1928)
[between ornamental borders at top and bottom] The Long Leash | By ['y' small cap] JESSICA NELSON NORTH | WITH SKETCH PORTRAIT OF THE AUTHOR BY | G. W. RUSSELL ([AE ligature]) | [HM device] | BOSTON AND NEW YORK | HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY | [gothic] The Riverside Press Cambridge | 1928

7-1/2" x 5". Lavender paper-covered boards printed in purple. Locations: RJS (dj), MNS. Previously published (Smart Set, July 1919); not in Adler.

Blurb on front flap of dust jacket for John Livingston Lowes, Convention and Revolt in Poetry ("The Coroner's Inquest").

F 27E THE HUMAN BODY (1928)
[quadruple rule] | THE HUMAN BODY | By | LOGAN CLENDENING, M.D. | [quadruple rule] | Illustrations by | W. C. SHEPARD and [lower case represents small caps] DALE BERONIUS | AND FROM PHOTOGRAPHS | Fold your flapping wings, | Soaring legislature! | Stoop to little things-- | Stoop to human nature! | Iolanthe. | [Borzoi device in oval] | [quadruple rule] | New York & London | ALFRED [raised dot] A [raised dot] KNOPF | 1928 | [quadruple rule]

On copyright page: 'FIFTH PRINTING FEBRUARY, 1928'. 9-1/4" x 6-1/16". Blue cloth stamped in orange. Earliest dust jacket located with the Mencken blurb is with a copy of the fifth printing. Location: KK (dj). Previously published (Nation, 19 October 1927); not in Adler.

Long excerpt from "Man as Mechanism" on back and front flap of dust jacket.

F 28 Also 7-15/16" x 5-1/4", blue cloth stamped in yellow, which matches the endpapers; and brown cloth stamped in black. Additional locations: RJS (dj), KK (dj), MBMU.

F 29 . . . Previously published (VanityFair, December 1926); not in Adler. Delete quotation.

F 29A ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT (1929)
ERICH MARIA REMARQUE | ALL QUIET | ON THE WESTERN | FRONT | Translated from the German by | A. W. WHEEN | [Little, Brown device] | BOSTON | LITTLE, BROWN, AND COMPANY | 1929

On copyright page: 'Published June, 1929 | Reprinted June, 1929 (twice) | Reprinted July, 1929 (twice)'. 7-1/2" x 5-1/8". Gray cloth stamped in red and black. Earliest dust jacket located with the Mencken blurb is with a copy of the fifth printing. Location: KK (dj). Previously published (American Mercury August 1929); not in Adler.

Blurb from "Im Westen Nichts Neues" on rear flap of dust jacket.

F 29B MIDDLETOWN (1929)
MIDDLETOWN | A Study in Contemporary American Culture | by ROBERT S. LYND | and HELEN MERRELL LYND | Foreword by | CLARK WISSLER | [HB device] | NEW YORK | HARCOURT, BRACE AND COMPANY

On copyright page: 'Published, January, 1929 | . . . | Sixth printing, October, 1929'. 8-5/8" x 5-3/4". Blue cloth blindstamped on front and stamped in gilt on spine. Earliest dust jacket located with the Mencken blurb is with a copy of the sixth printing. Location: KK (dj). Previously published (Baltimore Evening Sun, 14 January 1929); not in Adler.

Blurb from "A Treatise on the Americano" on front flap of dust jacket.

F 29D DODSWORTH (1929)
DODSWORTH | a Novel by | SINCLAIR LEWIS | [HB device] | HARCOURT, BRACE AND COMPANY | NEW YORK

On copyright page: 'Published, March, 1929'. 7-1/2" x 5-1/8". Blue cloth stamped in orange. Location: KK (dj). Previously published (American Mercury, April 1929); not in Adler.

Blurb on front flap of second-state dust jacket from "Escape and Return."

F 32 Delete entry. See F 27E.

F 32A FOURSQUARE (1930)
F O U R S Q U A R E | The Story of a Fourfold Life | BY | JOHN RATHBONE OLIVER | NEW YORK | THE MACMILLAN COMPANY | 1930

On copyright page: 'Published October, 1929. | Reprinted December, 1929.' 8-7/16" x 5-3/4". Red cloth blindstamped on front, stamped in gilt on spine. Location: RJS (dj). Previously published (American Mercury, December 1929); not in Adler.

Review of the book printed on front flap of dust jacket, one sentence of it on front.

F 33A THE RAPE OF TEMPERANCE (1931)
[red double rule] | THE RAPE OF | TEMPERANCE | BY | JAMES A. REED | UNITED STATES SENATOR FROM THE | STATE OF MISSOURI, 1911 TO 1929 | [red CBC device] | 1931 | COSMOPOLITAN BOOK CORPORATION | NEW YORK | [red double rule]

7-3/8" x 4-7/8". Blue-gray cloth stamped in black and red. Locations: GHT (dj), RPB, RJS (dj). Previously published (American Mercury, April 1929); not in Adler.

Quotation (from "Editorial") on rear flap of dust jacket.

F 33B COLD BLUE MOON (1931)
[all within box composed of zigzag rules] [blue disk] | [three wavy blue rules increasing in length] | COLD | BLUE MOON | [blue] Black Ulysses Afar Off | [black] by | HOWARD W. ODUM | Author of Rainbow Round My Shoulder, | Wings on My Feet | [blue rule] | THE BOBBS-MERRRILL COMPANY | PUBLISHERS [raised dot] INDIANAPOLIS

On copyright page: ' [lower case represents small caps] Copyright, 1931 | . . . | First Edition'. 7-13/16" x 5-1/16". Black cloth stamped in blue on front and spine, blindstamped border on front; red cloth with black lettering and border. Locations: RPB, GHT (dj), RJS (dj). Not in Adler.

Blurb on rear flap of dust jacket: "H. L. Mencken exclaims: 'What a trilogy! It will be read for many years.'" Cf. Fred Hobson, Jr., Serpent in Eden: H. L. Mencken and the South (Chapel Hill: Univ. of North Carolina, 1974), p. 97.

F 33C OLD MASSA'S PEOPLE (1931)
OLD MASSA'S [in an arc] | PEOPLE | [French rule] | The Old Slaves Tell | Their Story [both lines in script] | BY | ORLAND KAY ARMSTRONG | [ornament] | [French rule] | THE BOBBS-MERRILL COMPANY | PUBLISHERS INDIANAPOLIS

On copyright page: '[lower case represents small caps] Copyright, 1931 | . . . | First Edition'. (1) 8-11/16" x 5-3/4". Light green cloth stamped in dark green. (2) 8-9/16" x 5-3/4". Orange cloth stamped in red. Locations: KK (binding 1, dj), MChB (binding 2). Previously published (American Mercury, September 1928); not in Adler.

Sentence from "Black Boy" on back of dust jacket (not in F 28).

F 33D GIMME (1931)
[all within a roughly drawn box] "GIMME" | [rough rule] | OR HOW POLITICIANS | GET RICH | BY EMANUEL H. LAVINE | Author of "The Third Degree" | [rough rule] | THE VANGUARD PRESS | NEW YORK

On copyright page: 'COPYRIGHT, 1931'. 8-3/16" x 5-7/16". Black cloth with yellow labels on front and spine printed in black. Locations: RJS (dj), NAurW. Previously published (American Mercury, January 1931); not in Adler.

Blurb from "Cops and Their Ways" on back of dust jacket.

F 33E NOBEL PRIZE EDITION OF THE NOVELS OF SINCLAIR LEWIS (1931)
[all within triple rule frame] SINCLAIR LEWIS | [rule] | BABBITT | [HB device] | [rule] | HARCOURT, BRACE AND COMPANY | NEW YORK

Representative volume of an apparently uniform set published 28 January 1931. On copyright page: '9'. On back of dust jacket: 'NOBEL PRIZE EDITION | the Novels of | SINCLAIR LEWIS'. 7-5/16" x 5-7/8". Blue cloth stamped in gilt on spine. Earliest dust jacket located with the Mencken blurb is with a copy of the presumed ninth printing; noted also on stated fourth printing of Dodsworth. Location: GHT (dj). Previously published (American Mercury, April 1929); not in Adler.

Blurb on front flap of the set's dust jackets from "Escape and Return," different from that on F 29D.

F 34A NEW POEMS (1932)
NEW POEMS | Eighty Songs at Eighty | THE FIFTH BOOK OF VERSE | By [y small cap] | EDWIN MARKHAM | MEMBER OF THE ACADEMY, author of | THE MAN WITH THE HOE | and Other Poems | [ornament] | Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc. | Garden City 1932 New York

On copyright page: 'FIRST EDITION'. 7-7/8" x 5-1/2". Green cloth stamped in black on front, gilt on spine. Eight lines barred out in green on front flap of dust jacket. Locations: RJS (dj), MU, GHT (dj). Not in Adler.

Blurb on front of dust jacket, back flap, and p. viii. "He stands in the forefront of American Poetry and his MAN WITH THE HOE is the greatest poem ever written."

F 34B BEYOND DESIRE (1932)
[all in red box] S H E R W O O D | A N D E R S O N | [red rule] | BEYOND DESIRE | [red rule] | [Liveright device] | LIVERIGHT [raised dot] INC | NEW YORK

On copyright page: 'COPYRIGHT, 1932'. 7-1/2" x 5". Gray cloth stamped in red and black. Locations: MWelC (rebound), GHT (dj). Previously published (Vanity Fair, December 1926); not in Adler.

Puff piece quoted on back of dust jacket.

F 34C MAN'S ROUGH ROAD (1932)
F 34C.1 First printing (1932)

Man's Rough Road [in script] | BACKGROUNDS AND BEARINGS | FROM | MANKIND'S EXPERIENCE | [rule] | BY | A. G. Keller [in script] | PROFESSOR OF THE SCIENCE OF SOCIETY | IN YALE UNIVERSITY | NEW YORK & NEW HAVEN | Frederick A. Stokes Co. Yale University Press | Mdccccxxxii [lower case in last two lines represents small caps]

9-1/8" x 6-1/8". Green cloth stamped in gilt and blindstamped. Locations: KK (dj), NhU. Not in Adler.

Blurb on rear of dust jacket. "Everything that Dr. Keller does interests me very much."

F 34C.2 Second printing (1932)

As above, but a stated second printing and the blurb is from "The Travail of Man" (American Mercury, October 1932). Location" KK (dj).

F 35A UPTON SINCLAIR PRESENTS WILLIAM FOX (1933)
[all in a box] UPTON SINCLAIR | PRESENTS | WILLIAM FOX | [two squares conjoined] | PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHOR | LOS ANGELES (WEST BRANCH), CALIFORNIA

On copyright page: 'COPYRIGHT, 1933'. 8-1/16" x 5-7/16". Orange cloth stamped in black. Insert: 'A LETTER FROM MARY CRAIG SINCLAIR | TO EVE FOX'. Locations: RJS (dj), GHT (dj), MChB (sans insert). Not in Adler; John Ahouse, Upton Sinclair: A Descriptive, Annotated Bibliography (Los Angeles: Mercer & Aitchison, 1994), pp. 74-76.

Blurb on rear flap regarding American Outpost. "Contains some of the best writing you have done in recent years."

F 36 Delete entry. See F 34C.

F 36A A JOURNAL OF THESE DAYS (1934)
[all in triple rule box, innermost rule bold] A | Journal of | These Days | June 1932-December 1933 | By | ALBERT JAY NOCK | [French rule] | WILLIAM MORROW & | COMPANY-NEW YORK | MCMXXXIV

8-1/2" x 5-9/16". Brown cloth stamped in gilt on spine. Locations: KK (dj), MNodS. Previously published (American Mercury September 1926); not in Adler.

Blurb from "The Immortal Democrat" on front flap of dust jacket (different from that in F 18C).

F 36B CITY EDITOR (1934)
CITY EDITOR | [rule] | By STANLEY WALKER | City Editor, New York Herald Tribune | Author of "The Night Club Era" | With a Foreword by | ALEXANDER WOOLLCOTT | [Stokes device] | With thirteen reproductions from | photographs, and an Index | [rule] | FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY | NEW YORK MCMXXXIV

8-5/8" x 5-3/4". Black cloth stamped in metallic green. Another blurb, perhaps from the same review, is on the back wrapper of The Night Club Era (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ., 1999). Location: KK (dj). Previously published (New York Herald Tribune Books, 12 November 1933); not in Adler.

Blurb from "How New York Survived the Prohibition Era" on back of dust jacket.

F 38 THE BRUISER Correct the heading. Additional location: RJS (dj).

F 38A NAVAL CUSTOMS (1936)
NAVAL CUSTOMS | TRADITIONS AND USAGE | BY | LIEUTENANT COMMANDER LELAND P. LOVETTE | U. S. NAVY | UNITED STATES NAVAL INSTITUTE | ANNAPOLIS, MARYLAND | 1935

On copyright page: 'The present (second) edition | was issued in March, 1936.' 8-15/16" x 5-7/8". Royal blue cloth stamped in gilt. Earliest dust jacket located with the Mencken blurb is with a copy of the second edition. Locations: GHT (dj), MeU. Previously published (Baltimore Evening Sun, 15 September 1934); not in Adler.

Blurb on front flap of dust jacket (from "Amenities of the Sea").

F 38D MIDDLETOWN IN TRANSITION (1937)
MIDDLETOWN | IN | TRANSITION | A Study in Cultural Conflicts | BY | Robert S. Lynd & Helen Merrell Lynd | [HB device] | Harcourt, Brace and Company | New York

On copyright page: 'COPYRIGHT, 1937 . . . | . . . | first edition'. 9" x 6-1/16". Black cloth blindstamped on front and stamped in gilt on spine. Location: KK (dj). Previously published (American Mercury March 1929); not in Adler.

Blurb from "A City in Moronia" on back of dust jacket.

F 38G CARTER GLASS (1939)
CARTER GLASS | A Biography | BY | RIXEY SMITH | and | NORMAN BEASLEY | WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY | Senator [lower case represents small caps] HARRY FLOOD BYRD | AND A PREFACE BY | DOUGLAS SOUTHALL FREEMAN | LONGMANS, GREEN AND CO. | NEW YORK [raised dot] TORONTO | 1939

On copyright page: 'FIRST EDITION'. 8-1/2" x 5-1/2". Blue buckram, gold stamping on spine. Locations: GHT (dj), MNodS, RJS (dj). Not in Adler.

Testimonial on back of dust jacket.

F 40 . . . [script] Avon [roman] pocket-size [script] Books. . . . No Avon information on copyright page. Endpapers of first printing have an antique globe. 6-1/2" x 4-1/2". Multicolored pictorial wrappers, eleven titles on back. Location: RJS. Quotation on p. [iii].

F 41 Delete entry. See F 33E.

F 42 This is a later printing. The same blurb appears on later printings of Aurand's History of Pensilvania (1935) and Little Known Facts About Bundling in the New World (1938). It has not been established which has priority, or whether the blurb appeared first on another of his pamphlets.

F 42A PACK RAT (1942)
Pack Rat | [thick-thin rule] | A Metaphoric Phantasy | [thin-thick rule] | FRANCIS CLEMENT KELLEY | "I left the fairy tales lying on the floor of the | nursery, and I have not found any books so | sensible since." -Chesterton, Othodoxy | THE BRUCE PUBLISHING COMPANY | MILWAUKEE

On copyright page: 'Copyright, 1942 [lower case represents small caps]'. 7-13/16" x 5-1/8". Gray cloth stamped in dark green. Locations: KK (dj), RJS (dj). Not in Adler.

Blurb on back of later-state dust jacket. "I have just read PACK RAT and needn't tell you that I enjoyed it immensely. . . ."

F 42G SOCIAL PLANNING BY FRONTIER THINKERS (1944)
Social Planning by | Frontier Thinkers | Matthew Page Andrews | [quotation from Ruddigore in six lines] | [RRS device] | Richard R. Smith | New York 1944

8" x 5-1/2". Blue cloth stamped in silver. Locations: GHT (dj), MWC, RJS (dj). Not in Adler.

Blurb for the book on front flap of dust jacket. "I have now read the manuscript . . . ."

F 43 [script] The Case of. . . . Additional location: RJS (dj).
Delete entry. See B 106B.

F 43G THE LIMITS OF ART (1948)
THE | LIMITS OF ART | POETRY AND PROSE CHOSEN BY | ANCIENT AND MODERN CRITICS | COLLECTED AND EDITED BY | HUNTINGTON CAIRNS | [device] | BOLLINGEN SERIES XII | [French rule] | PANTHEON BOOKS

On copyright page: 'Copyright 1948'. 8-5/8" x 5-7/8". Green cloth-covered boards stamped in gilt on front, black cloth spine stamped in gilt. Brief quotation from Prejudices: Third Series on p. 651. Locations: MChB, KK (dj), RJS (dj). Not in Adler.

Blurb on front flap of dust jacket. "This anthology is the most original ever printed. . . ."

F 44 What is underlined should be italicized. '. . . UNIVERSITY | [shield]. . . .' Additional location: RJS (dj). The blurb is from a letter of 11 October 1948 (Menckeniana 13.3)

F 45 Additional location: RJS (dj). Part of blurb also on front of dust jacket.

F 45A ESSAYS (1950?)
ESSAYS | by | Ralph Waldo Emerson | [CH device] | CARLTON HOUSE [raised dot] NEW YORK

Copyright page: 'MANUFACTURED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA'. This version with 384 numbered pages dated 1950 by WorldCat. 8-1/16" x 5-7/16". Black cloth stamped in gilt and red. Location: KK (dj). Previously published (Partisan Review, March 1948); not in Adler.

Excerpt from review of the American College Dictionary ("Thousands of Words--All Good Ones") on rear flap of dust jacket.

F 46 Tentatively delete entry. See F 45A.

F 46A MY MARYLAND (1952)
[beneath black and white photo with caption, on yellow field] MY MARYLAND | A. AUBREY BODINE | Fellow of the Photographic Society of America | CAMERA MAGAZINE BALTIMORE, MARYLAND

On p. [4]: 'Copyright 1952'. 11-15/16" x 9". Black and white pictorial cloth. An apparently later issue has 'Distributed by Hastings House Publishers, Inc., New York' following imprint on title page and similar indication on bottom of front dj flap. Locations: GHT (dj), RJS (dj), DGW (rebound). Not in Adler.

Blurb on front flap of dust jacket. "Finest thing of the sort I have ever seen. . . ."

F 48 BRANN AND THE ICONOCLAST (1957)
BRANN and the [lower case represents small caps] | ICONOCLAST | By Charles Carver | INTRODUCTION BY ROY BEDICEK | [drawing of a pistol, a cane, and a copy of The Iconoclast] | AUSTIN [raised dot] UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS

On copyright page: '© 1957'. Red cloth stamped in black on front, black and gilt on spine. Locations: KK (dj), MChB. Previously published (Smart Set, August 1923); not in Adler.

Quotation from "Biography and Other Fiction-VI" on front flap of dust jacket.

F 50 BRAINS OF RATS AND MEN (1963)
BRAINS OF RATS | AND MEN | A SURVEY OF | THE ORIGIN AND BIOLOGICAL SIGNIFICANCE | OF THE CEREBRAL CORTEX | BY | C. JUDSON HERRICK | PROFESSOR OF NEUROLOGY, THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO | [HP device] | HAFNER PUBLISHING COMPANY | New York and London | 1963

8-3/16" x 5-3/8". Pale green cloth stamped in gilt on spine. Locations: KK (dj), MAH (dj), GHT (dj). Previously published (American Mercury, November 1926: xxviii).

Blurb on front flap of dust jacket (quoting 1963 introduction).

F 54 A DICTIONARY OF SLANG (1970)
ERIC PARTRIDGE | A DICTIONARY OF SLANG | AND UNCONVENTIONAL | ENGLISH | Colloquialisms and Catch-phrases | Solecisms and Catachreses | Nicknames | Vulgarisms | and | such Americanisms as have been naturalized | SEVENTH EDITION | Two volumes in one | VOLUME I: THE DICTIONARY | VOLUME II: THE SUPPLEMENT | The Macmillan Company

On copyright page: '7th edition | supplement revised and enlarged, 1970'. 9-3/16" x 6-5/16". Red cloth stamped in black and gilt on spine. Earliest dust jacket located with the Mencken blurb is with a copy of the seventh edition. Location: KK (dj). Previously published (Saturday Review, 10 April 1937).

Blurb from "Loose Language" on flaps of dust jacket.

F 60 TENDER DARKNESS (1993)
TENDER DARKNESS | A Mary MacLane Anthology | EDITED, WITH AN | INTRODUCTION AND NOTES, | BY ELISABETH PRUITT | [ornament] | ABERNATHY & BROWN | BELMONT, CALIFORNIA | 1993

On copyright page: 'First edition.' (1) Hardback version not yet seen. (2) 9" x 6". White wrappers printed in red and black. Locations: KK, MB. Previously published (Smart Set, July 1917).

Blurb from "The Cult of Dunsany" on recto of front wrapper.

F 61 HARRY ELMER BARNES (1994)
Harry Elmer | Barnes | As I Knew Him | Robert H. Barnes | High Plains Publishing Company

On copyright page: 'Copyright © 1994 . . . | . . . | Worland, Wyoming 82401'. 8-1/2" x 5-1/2". Light blue cloth stamped in silver on spine. Locations: KK (dj), IC (dj), RJS (dj).

Letter to Barnes on back of dust jacket.

G 4 Delete entry. See B 48B.

G 13 Delete entry. See E 33A.

G 14A "This Year of Promise," mimeo of NBC broadcast of 14 January 1934.

Entered in Adler 269. Mencken's three-minute speech not transcribed. Location: EPL.

G 16A "Farmers, Real and Bogus," Country Home Magazine, 9 October 1939.

Entered in Adler 155. Not in October, November, or December issues. Entry apparently based on handwritten notation on TS at EPL. See C 26.

G 20 Delete entry. See H 5A.

G 21 Delete entry. See H 8A.

G 21A A Book of Burlesques (A 14.2; New York: Reprint House International, 1970).

Entered in S1.4. Not located.

G 28 Unlocated Richard West (Philadelphia) printings.

The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche (A 3.1, 1978). Entered in S2.5 and BIP (as OP).
A Bibliography of . . . H. L. Mencken (B 53, 1978). Entered in S2.1.
Essays by James Huneker (B 86, 1984). Entered in BIP (as OP).
You Know These Lines (B 117, 1973). Entered in BIP (as OP).

H 1.1 Delete entry except for cross-reference. See B 48A.

H 1.3 . . . PREFACE [E accented] . . . nrf . . . S. P. . . . Eight printings noted. Additional location: RJS.

H 1.4
Spanish translation (2003)

En defensa de las mujeres | H. L. Mencken | Traduccion de Miguel Martinez-Lage [acute accents on o and third i] | y Eugenia Vasquez Nacarino [acute accent on second a] | LA FABRICA EDITORIAL [first two words in box]

On copyright page: '© De esta edicion: 2003, La Fabrica [acute accent on o] | Alameda, 9, 28014 Madrid'. On p. [191]: 'Este libro se termino de imprimir [acute accent on second o] | en el mes de mayo de 2003'. Series: Biblioteca BlowUp. Prologue by Gore Vidal (from A 83). 8-5/8" x 5-11/16". Dull blue wrappers printed in black, white, brown, and purple. Locations: RJS, GHT.

H 2.1 Less common bindings: gray or cream paper wrappers printed in black (9-3/4" x 6-1/2"); blue cloth, spine unstamped, ads missing from rear, blank ruled pages inserted between the leaves, blue endpapers (9-1/8" x 6"). Additional location: KK (4).

H 3A "ON BEING AN AMERICAN" (1922)
French translation (2004)

Henry Louis Mencken | Comment | peut-on etre [circumflex over second e] | americain? [accent over e] | Traduit de l'anglais [Etats-Unis] [accent over E] | par Laurent Bury

On copyright page: '© Editions Saint-Simon, [accent over E] | pour la traduction francaise, 2004. [cedilla under second c] | 16, rue Saint-Marc, 75002 Paris'. On p. [85]: 'Cet ouvrage a ete imprime [accent over last three e's] . . . | . . . | en septembre 2004'. Preface by Bernard Genies (accents over last two e's). Translated from the essay in Prejudices: Third Series as reprinted in AA 6. 7-7/8" x 5-1/16". White wrappers printed in pale yellow, pale blue-gray, red, gray, and black. Locations: GHT, RJS.

H 4 . . . Anerkennung . . .

H 5 Less common bindings: 8-15/16" x 6-1/16", boards covered with beige paper, yellow cloth spine, both stamped in brown, unstained; 9-1/8" x 6-1/8", thin, unprinted, orange boards with dust jacket attached to spine; 8-3/4" x 5-15/16", green cloth stamped in gilt on spine, unstained. Additional location: KK (5).

H 5A TREATISE ON THE GODS (A 40)
Italian translation (1967)

Henry Louis Mencken | Trattato sugli Dei | traduzione di Aldo Devizzi | Casa editrice Il Saggiatore

On copyright page: '© . . . | . . . Casa editrice Il Saggiatore, Milano 1967 | . . . | Prima editione: marzo 1967'. No. 50 in series I Gabbiani. Translation of second edition. 6-11/16" x 4-1/2". White wrappers printed in black and blue. Location: GHT.

H 8.1 . . . LIBERTAD Y CAMBIO . . . Additional location: GHT.

H 8.2 Title page of first printing the same, but without notice of printing. Printed in June 1988. 8-1/4" x 5-3/8". White wrappers printed in black, green, orange, and gray. Location: GHT.

H 8A "DEATH A PHILOSOPHICAL DISCUSSION" (A 61)
German translation (1968)

H. L. Mencken | R. I. P. | bei Patio 1968

Copyright page: 'Original: »Death - A Philosophical Discussion« | Zuerst erschienen in »The Smart Set«, Dec. 1914 | Übersetzt von W.E. Richartz | Nachdruck nur mit Genehmigung | des PATIO Verlages, Frankfurt a.M.' Text probably from A Mencken Chrestomathy (where it has this modified title) and not the Smart Set. 5-1/2" x 3-7/8". Unprinted gray boards with black and silver dust jacket. 150 numbered copies. Location: GHT.

H 12.2
Dutch translation (1998)

Er moet toch iemand | gelukkig zijn | Een briefwisseling tussen | John Fante | en H. L. Mencken | Thomas Rap [raised dot] Amsterdam

"Somebody Has To Be Happy." The colophon (p. [40]) indicates that the pamphlet is a 1998 keepsake (745 copies) for associates of the publisher Thomas Rap, translation by Dirk-Jan Arensman, celebrating the Bunker Hill Pers (press) and its first publication, Dromen van Bunker Hill, by Fante (1998). A forty-page selection from the Fante/Mencken letters. 7-18" x 4-3/4". Stiff white paper wrappers with portraits of Fante and Mencken in black, front and back, shades of green on inside; transparent dust jacket printed in black and gray. Location: KK (dj).

H 12.3
Italian translation (2001)

John Fante | Sto sulla riva [lower case represents small caps] | DELL'ACQUA E SOGNO | Lettere a Mencken [lower case represents small caps] | (1930-1952) | a cura di Michael Moreau | traduzione di Alessandra Osti | [device] | Fazi Editore

"I Stand on the Shore of the Water and I Dream." On copyright page: 'I edizione: ottobre 2001 | . . . | . . . Roma'. 7-7/8" x 4-5/8". Multicolored, illustrated wrappers. Locations: KK, GHT, RJS.

H 12A THE DIARY OF H. L. MENCKEN (A 80)
Portuguese translation (1995)

O DIARIO [A with accent] DE | H. L. MENCKEN | Edicao [c and a with accents] | Charles A. Fecher | Traducao [c and a with accents] | Bentto de Limo | [device]

On copyright page: 'Rio de Janeiro: Bertrand Brasil, 1995'. 8-7/8" x 6-3/16". Glossy thick paper wrappers (8-7/8" x 6-1/4") printed in mauve, tan , purple, white, and black. Locations: EPL, RJS.

H 18 AUSGEWÄHLTE WERKE (1999-2002)
[Vol. 1:] H. L. Mencken | Kulturkritische Schriften | 1918-1926 | Herausgegeben von | Helmut Winter | Manuscriptum [lower case represents small caps] || [Vol. 2:] H. L. Mencken | Autobiographisches | 1930-1948 | Aus dem Amerikanischen von | Bernd Rullkötter | Herausgegeben von | Helmut Winter | Manuscriptum [lower case represents small caps] || [Vol. 3:] H. L. Mencken | Kommentare | und Kolumnen | 1909-1935 | Aus dem Amerikanischen von | Joachim Kalka, Werner Schmitz, | Heinrich Spies, Helmut Winter | und Hans Wolf | Herausgegeben von Helmut Winter | Manuscriptum [lower case represents small caps]

Vol. 1, p. [1]: 'H. L. Mencken | Ausgewählte Werke [lower case represents small caps] | Band I [lower case represents small caps]'; copyright page: 'ISBN 3-933497-47-7 | © Manuscriptum Verlagsbuchhandlung | Thomas Hoof KG [raised dot] Waltrop und Leipzig 1999 | Gestaltung: CDE Spenlen/Kohl, Köln'. Vol. 2, p. [1]: 'H. L. Mencken | AUSGEWÄHLTE WERKE | BAND II'; copyright page: 'ISBN 3-933497-51-5 | © Manuscriptum Verlagsbuchhandlung | Thomas Hoof KG [raised dot] Waltrop und Leipzig 2000 | Gestaltung: Kohl & Müllejans, Düren'. Vol. 3, p. [1]: 'H. L. Mencken | Ausgewählte Werke [lower case represents small caps] | Band III [lower case represents small caps]'; copyright page: 'ISBN 3-933497-54-X | © Manuscriptum Verlagsbuchhandlung | Thomas Hoof KG [raised dot] Waltrop und Leipzig 2002 | Gestaltung: Achim Schmidt, Bochum'. 7-3/8" x 4-9/16". Brown cloth stamped in gilt on spine. Locations: RJS, GHT.

Contents: Vol. 1: "Zur Verteidigung der Frau," revised trans. by Franz Blei (H 1.1); "Das amerikanische Credo (Vorrede)," revised trans. by Tony Noah (see Adler 25); "Demokratenspiegel (Notizen über Demokratie)," revised trans. by Dora S. Benjamin-Kellner (H 5). Vol. 2: "Einstieg in Universum" ("Introduction to the Universe," Happy Days); "Die Höhlen der Gelehrsamkeit" ("The Caves of Learning," ibid.); "Allegro con Brio" (Newspaper Days); "Ein Mädchen aus Red Lion, Pennysylvania" (ibid.); "Tagebuch 1930-1948" (a large portion of The Diary); "Deutschland 1938. Ein Reisebericht" ("Germany 1938, a Travel Report," Thirty-five Years of Newspaper Work). Vol. 3: (from A 83) "Der Amerikaner," "Über das Amerikanertum," "Blick von aussen nach inner" ("Outside, Looking In"), "Die Lage der Nation" ("The State of the Nation"), "Die Verfassung" ("The Constitution"), "Der Kaiserpurpur" ("Imperial Purple"), "Hot Dogs," "New York," "San Francisco: Ein Erinnerun," "Mark Twains Amerikanertum," "Anmerkungen zum Journalismus" ("Notes on Journalism"), "Die Aufgabe des Kritikers" ("The Critic and His Job"), "Beethoven," "Brahms," "Ein Segen für Nervensägen" ("A Boon to Bores"), "Gedanken zum Essen" ("Notes on Victuals"), "Das Filmwesen" ("The Movies"), (from Berliner Tageblatt, 4 August 1922) "Sittlichkeitskreuzzüge in Amerika" ("Moral Endeavor"?), (from A Mencken Chrestomathy) "Abraham Lincoln," "Valentino," "Ambrose Bierce," "Moderne Architektur" ("The New Architecture"), (from H 2.1) "Die amerikanische Sprache," (from A Second Mencken Chrestomathy) "Mrs. Wharton," "Kritik einer Kritik der Kritik," "Über Realismus," (from A 16) "Theodore Dreiser," (from A 10) "München," (from A 29) "Wenn Wagner ledig geblieben wäre" ("Symbiosis and the Artist").

H 19 GESAMMELTE VORURTEILE (2000)
H. L. Mencken | Gesammelte Vorurteile | Herausgegeben, | aus dem Amerikanischen übersetzt | und mit einem Nachwort versehen | von Helmut Winter | Insel Verlag

On copyright page: '© Insel Verlag Frankfurt am Main und Leipzig 2000 | . . . | Erste Auflage 2000 | 1 2 3 4 5 6 - 04 03 02 01 00'. 7-7/8" x 4-5/8". Gray-green paper-covered boards stamped in green and orange on spine. Locations: RJS, GHT.

Contents: (From A Mencken Chrestomathy) "Das Leben des Menschen," "Der Ort der Menschen in der Natur," "Meditation über Meditation," "Coda," "Menschentypen" (19 items), "Der weiblich Verstand," "Frauen als Geächtete," "Die Verlockung der Schönheit," "Frauen als Realpolitiker," "Doppeltes Mass," "Ein neuer Verwendungzweck für Kirchen," "Die Unsterblichkeit der Seele," "Wunder," "Der Lohn des Zweiflers," "Ein ethisches Dilemma," "Ehre," "Die Todesstrafe," "Über das Erhängen," "Über den Se[l]bstmord," "Unter den Ulmen," "Exeunt omnes," "Das Wesen der Regierung," "Mehr zum gleichen Thema," "Regierungstheorien," "Die Ursprünge der Demokratie," "Ein blinder Fleck," "Letzte Worte," "Amerikanische Kultur," "Die Sahara der Bozart," "Historiker," "Neuengland," "Die Griechen," "Wohl dem, der hat," "Eine persönliche Bemerkung," ">Travail<," "Klassische Gelehrsamkeit," "Die ewige Kunst," "Hypothese," "Das Universum," "Der Fetisch des gestreiften Muskels," "Trost für die Gebrechliche," "Der kritische Prozess," "Über Stil," "Whitman," "Fussnote," (From A Second Mencken Chrestomathy) "Der Roman wird definiert," "Dreiser als Stilist," "Der Mensch und sein Schatten," "Notiz zu einer ehrlichen Autobiographie," "Coda."

Additional GHT locations: A 3.1.c (binding A), h, 18.2.g, 22.1.a (dj), 23.1.f, 26.1.a (2, 1st [dj] and 2nd states, slip tipped in to ffe), 28, 31 (first state), 36.1.a (dj), 40.1.b (dj), 47.1.a.ii (dj), 53.1.a (dj), 57.1.c, 60 (2, inserts 1 and 2), 66.1.b, 68.1.a (dj), 75.1.a (dj); B 22, 29, 66, 153, 204, 210, 225.

Additional JRS locations: D 3, 6 (sans 'COMPLIMENTARY').

Additional KK locations: A 1.1.b, 3.1.h, l, m, 6.1.c, 15.1.b, 16.1.c, f (4), 20.1.j, 21.1.a, 24.1.c, 26.1.d, 35.1.a (2), 36.1.b, c (2nd state, dj), 40.1.e, g, 40.2.c (dj), d, 49.1.g, l, 50, 51.1.f, g, 54.1.g, 55, 56.1.q, 59.1.c, 61.1.e, 86.1.b, c; B 22, 210; E 44, 47; F 25 (dj).

Additional RJS locations: A 7.1.a (binding B), 13.1.a (2, dj), 14.2.b, c.i, e, 16.1.b (2, dj), d.i, e, 17.1.b, 18.2.e (green), 18.5.c (fabricoid), 19.4.a.ii, 20.1.d.ii (2, dj), i (Borzoi Boards), n (green), 21.1.b, 24.1.f (Borzoi Boards), 25.1.a, 27.1 (2), 29.1.e.ii (dj), 32.1.a.ii (binding B), 33.1.c (2, dj), 33.2.a (2, dj), 35.1.b (4), 37.1.c (2, dj), 49.1.d (dj), 53.1.e, 56.1.g, 59.1.d, g, 60 (2, inserts 1 and 2), 78.1.a.i, 79.1.a.ii (binding E); B 27, 37.2, 67, 68, 69, 74, 79, 80 (1929 pr.), 85 (2, dj), 87, 97, 100.2, 104, 107, 121.1, 125, 156, 176, 205, 206A, 213, 217, 219 (2), 220, 225, 226; C 5, 6, 7, 10, 22, 28; E 7, 9, 15, 27, 29, 48, 50, 51, 52, 55; F 1 (dj), 4 (dj), 10 (dj), 18 (dj), 19 (dj), 23 (dj), 25 (dj), 26 (dj), 31 (dj), 33 (dj), 34 (dj), 36 (dj), 39, 41, 46 (dj), 47; G 17; H 13, 15 (with catalog).

Desiderata: LC accession dates of A 56, 87, 89, 93. Copyright no. of A 88-89, 93, AA 14. Printing info for A 91.

Index Barclay, McKee, delete A 82.1.a. Beggars of Life (Tully), add F 15. "Bryan," delete AA 3. Covarrubias, Miguel, delete. Dodsworth, F 41. "Editorial" (October 1925), A 34. "In Memoriam: W. J. B.," add AA 3. "Sub-Potomac Phenomenon, A," B 183, F 13.

Section J Material making second and later appearances in books, pamphlets, sound recordings, or (if not in Adler or its supplements) periodicals. This section, which is not in the Pittsburgh Mencken bibliography, will continue to be augmented privately, but additions are no longer entered here. Current total of items: 544.

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