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ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS TO H. L. MENCKEN: A DESCRIPTIVE 

BIBLIOGRAPHY, BY RICHARD J. SCHRADER, AS OF APRIL 2011 

* = entered or significantly modified since last posting (10/09) 

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; GHT donated to the George Peabody Library of the Johns Hopkins University (MdBJ) in 

April 2007; RAW donated to the George Peabody Library 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-four are known to exist, fourteen 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). Since then, a newly-discovered copy was 

purchased on Mar. 30, 2007, by David S. Thaler from G. S. MacManus Co. (Bryn Mawr, Pa.); it 

is in boards, was inscribed to Ralph A. Lyon in July 1903, has the bookplate of John Stuart 

Groves, and was formerly owned by Edward Merrill of Boston and his son Samuel. George 

Thompson's two copies were donated to the George Peabody Library of the Johns Hopkins 

University in Baltimore in April 2007. In 2010 the Abhau family loaned the Pratt Library a 

rebound copy inscribed to Charles Abhau, Mencken's maternal uncle, and dated June 5, 1903. 

Adler 5, 40… 

Review copy: … with slip (1-1/4" x 2-5/16") … TELEGRAM BLG :: BALTIMORE'. Location: 

KyLoU. 

*A 2.1.c 

… 150 Copies'.… Copies noted in dark blue, light green, or burgundy cloth, with different gilt 

stamping on spine. Additional location: KK (3). 

*A 2.1.d 

Unidentified copies noted bound like A 2.1.c and other Folcroft printings (lettering reading 

down), but without added title page or limitation notice; line through "sinner" on p. xxii as in A 

2.1.c. Found in both dark green and burgundy cloth (KK [2]). 

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 2.1.h 

[Whitefish, Mont.: Kessinger, February 2009]. Publishing data from Global BIP. Printed to 

order. Hardback and paperback, with "Library Binding" reported. Location: KK (2). 

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 


page: 'Third printing 1998'. Location: KK. 

A 3.1.p 

Fourth Transaction printing presumed from next; not seen. 

A 3.1.q 


page: 'Fifth printing 2003'. Location: KK. 

A 3.1.r 

[Whitefish, Mont.: Kessinger, June 2006]. Publishing data from Global BIP. Paperback, printed 

to order. Location: KK. 

A 3.1.s 

[Whitefish, Mont.: Kessinger, July 2007]. Publishing data from Global BIP. Hardcover, printed 

to order. Location: KK. 

Second edition, only printing (2003) 

A 3.2.a 

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. 

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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. 

Third edition, only printing (2006) 

A 3.3.a 

Title page: '[first line in oval] [ornament] THE BARNES & NOBLE LIBRARY OF 

ESSENTIAL READING [ornament] | 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: '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: 0-7607-8091-9 | 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. 


Contents: p. i: half title; p. ii: blank; p. iii: title; p. iv: copyright; pp. v-vi: 'CONTENTS'; pp. viixv: 

'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. 

Fourth edition, first printing? (2008) 

A 3.4.a 

Title page: 'The Philosophy of | Friedrich Nietzsche' 

Copyright page: 'The Philosophy of | Friedrich Nietzsche | by Henry Louis Mencken | © 2008 

Wilder Publications | This book is a product of its time and does not reflect the same values as it 

would if it were | written today. Parents might wish to discuss with their children how views on 

race have | changed before allowing them to read this classic work. | [three lines reserving rights] 

| Wilder Publications, LLC. | PO Box 3005 | Radford VA 24143-3005 | ISBN 10: 1-60459-331-8 

| ISBN 13: 978-1-60459-331-0' 

Colophon: '[to left of bar code] Printed in the United States | [code with 'LV', 'B', and 'P']' 

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9" x 6": [1-6] 7-9 [10] 11-17 [18] 19-24 [25] 26-32 [33] 34-38 [39] 40-44 [45] 46-51 [52] 53-59 

[60] 61-66 [67] 68-76 [77] 78-81 [82] 83-92 [93] 94-101 [102] 103-08 [109] 110-20 [121] 122- 

28 [129] 130-32 [133] 134-38 [139] 140-47 [148] 149-53 [154] 155-61 [162] 163-75 [176] 177- 

90 [191-92] = 192 pp. 


Contents: p. 1: title; p. 2: blank; p. 3: copyright; p. 4: blank; p. 5: 'Table of Contents'; pp. 6-190: 

text; p. 191: blank; p. 192: colophon. 

Binding: White paper wrappers printed in several colors. 

Location: KK. 

Notes: Published April 2008 (Global BIP). Based on first printing ("Books and Articles About 

Nietzsche" omitted). 

Fifth edition, first printing? (2008) 

A 3.5.a 

Title page: 'The Selected Writings of | Friedrich Nietzsche | The Philosophy of Friedrich 

Nietzsche | Thus Spake Zarathustra | Beyond Good and Evil | The Anti-Christ' 

Copyright page: Binding A: 'The Selected Writings of | Friedrich Nietzsche | by Friedrich 

Nietzsche | © 2008 Wilder Publications | This book is a product of its time and does not reflect 

the same values as it would if it were | written today. Parents might wish to discuss with their 

children how views on race have | changed before allowing them to read this classic work. | 

[three lines reserving rights] | Wilder Publications, LLC. | PO Box 3005 | Radford VA 24143- 

3005 | ISBN 10: 1-60459-333-4 | ISBN 13: 978-1-60459-333-4'. Binding B: '… ISBN 10: 1- 

60459-332-6 | ISBN 13: 978-1-60459-332-7'. 

Colophon: Binding A: '[to left of bar code] Printed in the United Kingdom | by Lightning Source 

UK Ltd. | [code with 'UK', 'BA', and 'P']'. Binding B: '[to left of bar code] Printed in the United 

States | [code with 'LV, 'B', and 'P']'. 

9" x 6": [1-6] 7-8 [9] 10-15 [16] 17-22 [23] 24-29 [30] 31-35 [36] 37-41 [42] 43-47 [48] 49-55 

[56] 57-61 [62] 63-70 [71] 72-75 [76] 77-86 [87] 88-95 [96] 97-102 [103] 104-12 [113] 114-20 

[121] 122-24 [125] 126-30 [131] 132-39 [140] 141-44 [145] 146-52 [153] 154-66 [167] 168-80 

[181-84] 185-93 [194] 195-243 [244] 245-92 [293] 294-352 [353] 354-416 [417-18] 419 [420] 

421-35 [436] 437-49 [450] 451-61 [462] 463-68 [469] 470-83 [484] 485-96 [497] 498-513 [514] 

515-29 [530] 531-52 [553-54] 555-65 [566-67] 568-623 [624] = 624 pp. 


Contents: p. 1: title; p. 2: blank; p. 3: copyright; p. 4: blank; p. 5: table of contents for next; pp. 

6-180: text of The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche, by Mencken; pp. 181-83: table of contents 

for next; pp. 184-416: text of Thus Spake Zarathustra; p. 417: table of contents for next; pp. 418- 

552: text of Beyond Good and Evil; p. 553: table of contents for The Anti-Christ; pp. 554-65: 

'Introduction', by Mencken; p. 566: 'Author's Preface', by Nietzsche; pp. 567-623: text, trans. 

Mencken; p. 624: colophon. 

Binding A: Reddish brown paper-covered boards printed in dark brown and cream. 

Binding B: White paper wrappers printed in dark brown and black. 

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Dust jacket: None. 

Location: KK (2). 

Notes: Published April 2008 (Global BIP). The text is the same as in A 3.4.a but compressed, 

resulting in more lines per page while retaining the same line breaks. 

… v-xxi [xxii] xxiii-v … 

A 5.1.a.i 

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 (± 12) [2-10] 8 [11] 2 = 76 leaves. The title/copyright leaf is a cancel. 

Dust jacket: Not seen. 

Locations: CaOHM, RJS. 

Notes: Not in Adler. 

7-1/2" x 4-1/2" or 7-3/8" x 4-1/2". 

Additional location: GHT. 

A 6.1.a 

*A 7.1.c-d 

Third and fourth printings: [Charleston, S.C.: BiblioLife, August 2009]. Date from Global BIP; 

the publisher is also known as BiblioBazaar. Large print and smaller print, paperback. 


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 8.1.b 

Second printing: [Alcester, G.B.: Read Books, April 2008]. Publishing data from Global BIP. 

Paperback. Location: KK. 

A 8.3.a 


Notes: Publication announced 15 November 1989. 

A 9.1.c 

Copy noted with marbled paper wrappers colored blue-green, yellow-green, and black. 

Additional location: KK. 

A 9.1.e 

Two colors of cloth binding noted: maroon and green. Additional location: KK (2). 

5

A 9.1.j 

New York: AstroLogos Books, 2007 [imprint on sticker]. Printed to order. Hardcover and 

paperback. Location: KK. 

*A 9.1.k 

[Charleston, S.C.: BiblioLife, July 2009]. Date from Global BIP; the publisher is also known as 

BiblioBazaar. Paperback. Location: KK. 

A 9.3.b 

Third edition, second printing: [Whitefish, Mont.: Kessinger, October 2007]. Publishing data 

from Global BIP. Paperback. Location: KK. 

A 9.4.a.i-ii 

Fourth edition, only printing, limited and trade issues (2007) 

Title page: '[all to left of vertical rule] A Little Light Music | [red] The Artist | [black] A Drama 

Without Words | [rule] | An opera by | H. L. Mencken, Louis Cheslock and | Ludwig van 

Beethoven | with | Mencken and The Saturday Night Club | by Marion Elizabeth Rodgers | 

Composing The Artist | by Roger Brunyate | Foreword by David S. Thaler | MERCURY HOUSE 

PRESS | Baltimore, Maryland | MMVII' 

Copyright page: '[all within thick-thin rule box] Copyright © 2007 | David S. Thaler, | Marion 

Elizabeth Rodgers, | Roger Brunyate | and the Estate of H. L. Mencken | All Rights Reserved. | 

P.O. Box 47428 | 7115 Ambassador Road | Baltimore, Maryland 21244-7428 | Tel: 410-944- 

3647 | [drawing of stein by HLM] | First Edition' 

Colophon: 'This book was published for the benefit of the | Maryland Historical Society in 

Baltimore, Maryland | through the generosity of | Carolyn and David S. Thaler. | 200 copies 

were published of which 15 were numbered | and signed. | [limited issue adds:] This is copy 

number ____ [number penned in red]' 

8-15/16" x 5-7/8": [A-F] i-v [vi] 1-19 [20] 21-23 [24] 25-35 [36] 37-43 [44] = 56 pp. 

[1] 28 = 28 leaves. 

Contents: p. A: title; p. B: copyright; p. C: colophon: p. D: blank; p. E: 'TABLE OF 

CONTENTS'; p. F: blank; pp. i-v: 'FOREWORD'; p. vi: blank; pp. 1-19: 'MENCKEN AND THE 

SATURDAY NIGHT CLUB | BY MARION ELIZABETH RODGERS'; p. 20: blank; pp. 21-23: 

'COMPOSING THE ARTIST | BY ROGER BRUNYATE'; p. 24: blank; pp. 25-35: text; p. 36: blank; pp. 

37-42: 'Notes to "MENCKEN AND THE SATURDAY NIGHT CLUB"'; p. 43: 'BIOGRAPHIES'; p. 44: 

blank. 

Binding: Glossy white paper wrappers printed in black, light tan, red, and sepia. 

Location: RJS (2). 

A 10.1.a 

In one RJS copy (dark blue cover) the seventh gathering is replaced with a duplication of the 

sixth (pp. 81-96). 

A 10.1.b 

Second printing: [Whitefish, Mont.: Kessinger, July 2006]. Publishing data from Global BIP. 

All but two illustrations omitted; paperback. Printed to order. Location: KK. 

6

A 10.1.c 

Third printing: [Whitefish, Mont.: Kessinger, July 2007]. Publishing data from Global BIP. All 

but two illustrations omitted; hardback. Printed to order. Location: KK. 

A 10.1.d-f 

Fourth through sixth printings: [Charleston, S.C.: BiblioLife, October 2009]. Date from Global 

BIP; the publisher is also known as BiblioBazaar. Ratio of font sizes 31 (hardback, ISBN 1-115- 

49955-6), 27 (hardback, 1-115-49956-4), 22 (paperback, 1-115-49958-0). Location: KK (3). 

A 10.2.a 

Second edition, first on-demand printing (2007) 

Title page: 'Europe After 8:15 | H. L. Mencken, George Jean Nathan | and Willard Huntington 

Wright' 

Copyright page: 'EUROPE AFTER 8:15 | Published in the United States by IndyPublish.com | 

Boston, Massachusetts | Published in April 2007 | ISBN 1-4280-8171-2 (hardcover) | ISBN 1- 

4280-8183-6 (paperback)' 

Colophon: '[to left of bar code] Printed in the United States | [code with 'LV' (binding A) or 'BV' 

(binding B) and 'B' in the midst]' 

9" x 6": [i-xxvi 1] 2-18 [19] 20-38 [39] 40-56 [57] 58-79 [80] 81-97 [98-102] = 128 pp. 


Contents: pp. i-ii: blank; p. iii: half title; p. iv: blank; p. v: title; p. vi: copyright; p. vii: 

'CONTENTS'; p. viii: blank; pp. ix-xxv: 'PREFACE IN THE SOCRATIC MANNER'; p. xxvi: 

blank; pp. 1-97: remainder of text; pp. 98-101: blank; p. 102: colophon. 

Binding A: Dark blue cloth stamped in gilt on spine. 

Binding B: White wrappers printed in black. 



Notes: The Benton illustrations are omitted. 

Third edition, first printing (2007) 

A 10.3.a 

Title page: 'Europe After 8:15 | [rule] | H. L. Mencken, George Jean Nathan | and Willard 

Huntington Wright | Illustrated by Thomas H. Benton' 

Copyright page: 'EUROPE AFTER 8:15 | BY | H. L. MENCKEN | GEORGE JEAN NATHAN 

| WILLARD HUNTINGTON WRIGHT | WITH DECORATIONS | BY THOMAS H. BENTON | 

NEW YORK - JOHN LANE COMPANY | TORONTO - BELL & COCKBURN - MCMXIV' 

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

midst]' 

9" x 6": [i-viii] 1-93 [94-96] = 104 pp. 

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Contents: p. i: title; p. ii: Dodo Press logo; p. iii: original front cover; p. iv: blank; p. v: 

copyright; p. vi: Benton's "Berlin"; p. vii: 'CONTENTS'; p. viii: blank; pp. 1-12: 'PREFACE IN 

THE SOCRATIC MANNER'; pp. 13-93: remainder of text and Benton illustrations; pp. 94-95: 

blank; p. 96: colophon. 

Binding: Multi-colored white paper wrappers with map of Europe and Dodo Press imprint. 

Location: KK. 

Notes: Gloucester, G.B.: Dodo Press, June 2007 (Global BIP). 

Fourth edition, first printing (2007) 

A 10.4.a 

Title page: 'Henry Louis Mencken, | George Jean Nathan and | Willard Huntington Wright | 

EUROPE AFTER 8:15 | ILLUSTRATED BY | THOMAS H. BENTON | [device] | 

BIBLIOBAZAAR' 

Copyright page: 'Copyright © 2008 BiblioBazaar | All rights reserved | Original copyright: 

1914' 

Colophons: '[thirteen-line blurb and website information] | Contact us: | BiblioBazaar | PO Box 

21206 | Charleston, SC 29413' || '[to left of bar code] Printed in the United States | [code with 

'LV' and 'B' in the midst]' 

8" x 5": [1-8] 9-19 [20] 21-96 [97-100] = 100 pp. 


Contents: p. 1: half title; p. 2: copyright; p. 3: title; p. 4: blank; p. 5: half title; p. 6: Benton's 

"Berlin"; p. 7: 'CONTENTS'; p. 8: blank; pp. 9-19: 'PREFACE IN THE SOCRATIC MANNER'; 

p. 20: blank; pp. 21-96: remainder of text and Benton illustrations; p. 97: blank; p. 98: colophon 

1; p. 99: blank; p. 100: colophon 2. 

Binding: Multicolored white paper wrappers. 

Location: KK. 

Notes: Published December 2007 (Global BIP). 

Fifth edition, first printing (2007) 

Same as A 10.4.a except: 

9-5/8" x 7-3/8": [1-8] 9-104 [105-08] = 108 pp. 

A 10.5.a 

Contents: p. 1: half title; p. 2: copyright; p. 3: title; p. 4: blank; p. 5: half title; p. 6: Benton's 

"Berlin"; p. 7: 'CONTENTS'; p. 8: blank; pp. 9-20: 'PREFACE IN THE SOCRATIC MANNER'; 

pp. 21-104: remainder of text and Benton illustrations; p. 105: blank; p. 106: colophon 1; p. 107: 

blank; p. 108: colophon 2. 

8

Location: KK. 

Notes: Published December 2007 (Global BIP). 'Large Print Edition' indicated on wrapper. 

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 13.1.c 

Third printing: [Breinigsville, Pa.: BiblioLife, 27 August 2009]. Paperback. 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.f 

Two bindings noted: maroon T cloth stamped in red and green and blindstamped (twenty Borzoi 

Pocket Book titles on dust jacket) and blue V cloth stamped in gilt and blindstamped (thirty-six 

titles). Additional location: KK (2). 

A 14.2.h 

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

A 14.2.j 

[Whitefish, Mont.: Kessinger, July 2006]. Publishing data from Global BIP. Reprint of seventh 

printing, paperback and hard cover. Printed to order. Location: KK (2). 

*A 14.2.k 

[Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Library, July 2009]. The date is from Global BIP. Paperback. 

Location: KK. 


A 14.3.a 

Title page: 'HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN | A BOOK OF | BURLESQUES | [device] | 

BIBLIOBAZAAR' 

Copyright page: 'Copyright © 2007 BiblioBazaar | All rights reserved | Original copyright: 1916, 

1920' 




8" x 5": [1-8] 9 [10] 11-123 [124-28] = 128 pp. 


Contents: p. 1: half title; p. 2: copyright; p. 3: title; p. 4: blank; p. 5: half title; p. 6: blank; p. 7: 

'CONTENTS'; p. 8: blank; p. 9: note by Mencken signed 'H. L. M. | February 1, 1920'; p. 10: 

blank; pp. 11-123: text; p. 124: colophon 1; pp. 125-27: blank; p. 128: colophon 2. 

9


Location: KK. 

Notes: Published November 2007 (Global BIP). 



A 14.4.a 

9-5/8" x 7-3/8": [1-8] 9 [10] 11-140 [141-44] = 144 pp. 


'CONTENTS'; p. 8: blank; p. 9: note by Mencken signed 'H. L. M. | February 1, 1920'; p. 10: 

blank; pp. 11-140: text; p. 141: blank; p. 142: colophon 1; p. 143: blank; p. 144: colophon 2. 

Location: KK. 

Notes: Published November 2007 (Global BIP). 'Large Print Edition' indicated on wrapper. 

*A 14.4.b-c 

Second and third printings: [Charleston, S.C.:] BiblioBazaar, [August 2008]. Print in different 

magnifications, hardcover. Location: KK (2). 


A 14.5.a 

Title page: 'A BOOK OF BURLESQUES | Published in the United States by IndyPublish.com | 

Boston, Massachusetts | Published in December 2007 | ISBN 1-4353-8838-0 (hardcover) | ISBN 

1-4353-8820-8 (paperback)' 

Copyright page: None. 

Colophon: '[to left of bar code] Printed in the United States | [code with 'LV' and 'BA' in the 

midst]' 

9" x 6": [i-viii 1] 2-9 [10] 11-19 [20] 21-27 [28] 29-31 [32] 33-42 [43] 44-58 [59] 60-64 [65] 66- 

68 [69] 70-84 [85] 86-92 [93] 94-99 [100] 101-04 [105] 106-07 [108] 109 [110-14] = 122 pp. 


Contents: pp. i-ii: blank; p. iii: half title; p. iv: title; p. v: table of contents; p. vi: blank; p. vii: 

note by Mencken signed 'H. L. M. | February 1, 1920'; p. viii: blank; pp. 1-110: text; pp. 111-13: 



Binding B: White wrappers printed in black. "L. H. Mencken" on front recto. 


Location: KK (2, bindings A and B). 

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Notes: Published January 2008 (Global BIP). 

A 15.1.a 


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 15.1.d 

Fourth printing: [Whitefish, Mont.: Kessinger, September 2007]. Publishing data from Global 

BIP. Paperback. Location: KK. 

*A15.1.e 

Fifth printing: [Charleston, S.C.:] BiblioLife, [4 June 2009]. Date from Global BIP; the 

publisher is also known as BiblioBazaar. Paperback. Location: KK. 

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. Black cloth stamped in gilt on spine. (1) 8-15/16" 

x 6-5/16". 'BOOK OF | PREFACES | [rule] | MENCKEN'. (2) 9" x 6". '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 and hardback 

reprints of seventh printing. Date from Global BIP. Later printed to order. Beginning in 2006 

Kessinger separately printed to order the elements of the book: H. L. Mencken on Joseph 

Conrad, H. L. Mencken on Theodore Dreiser, H. L. Mencken on James Huneker, and Puritanism 

as a Literary Force. Locations: GHT, KK. 

A 16.1.l 

Twelfth printing: [Alcester, G.B.: Read Books, June 2008]. Publishing data from Global BIP. 

Paperback. Location: KK. 


A 16.2.a 


ESSENTIAL READING [ornament] | THREE EARLY WORKS | A Book of Prefaces | Damn! A 

Book of Calumny | The American Credo | [ornament] | H. L. MENCKEN | INTRODUCTION BY 

RICHARD J. SCHRADER | BARNES & NOBLE | [short rule] | NEW YORK' 

11


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. 


Contents: p. i: half title; p. ii: blank; p. iii: title; p. iv: copyright; pp. v-viii: 'CONTENTS'; pp. ixxviii: 

'INTRODUCTION'; 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. 

Notes: Published July 2006. 


A 16.3.a 

Title page: 'A BOOK | OF PREFACES | H. L. MENCKEN | [device: black cat] | WILDSIDE 

PRESS' 

Copyright page: 'A BOOK OF PREFACES | Copyright © 1917 by H. L. Mencken | This edition 

published in 2006 by Wildside Press, LLC. | www.wildsidepress.com' 

6" x 9": [1-4] 5 [6] 7 [8] 9-142 [143-44] = 144 pp. 


Contents: p. 1: half title; p. 2: 'MORE WILDSIDE CLASSICS'; p. 3: title; p. 4: copyright; p. 5: 

'CONTENTS'; p. 6: blank; p. 7: 'PREFACE TO THE | FOURTH EDITION'; p. 8: blank; pp. 9- 

142: text; p. 143: blank; p. 144: bar code to right of 'Printed in the United States | [number with 

letters LVS and B]'. 

Binding: White paper wrappers printed in dark brown, tan, black, red, yellow, and light blue. 

Locations: KK, RJS. 

Notes: Published September 2006 (Global BIP). 

A 16.4.a 

Fourth edition, first on-demand printing (2007) 

Title page: 'A Book of Prefaces | H. L. Mencken' 

12

Copyright page: 'A BOOK OF PREFACES | Published in the United States by IndyPublish.com 

| Boston, Massachusetts | Published in January 2007 | ISBN 1-4280-7218-7 (hardcover) | 1-4280- 

7217-9 (paperback)' 


midst]' 

9" x 6": [i-x 1] 2-24 [25] 26-61 [62] 63-80 [81] 82-115 [116-26] = 136 pp. 


Contents: pp. i-ii: blank; p. iii: half title; p. iv: blank; p. v: title; p. vi: copyright; pp. vii-viii: 

'PREFACE TO THE FOURTH EDITION' (by HLM); p. ix: 'CONTENTS'; p. x: blank; pp. 1- 

115: text; p. 116: blank; pp. 117-21: notes for "Puritanism as a Literary Force"; pp. 122-25: 



Binding B: Heavy white paper wrappers printed in black. 



Notes: Printed to order; code in colophon differs in two copies noted. 


A 16.5.a 

Title page: 'HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN | A BOOK OF PREFACES | [device] | 

BIBLIOBAZAAR' 

Copyright page: 'Copyright © 2007 BiblioBazaar | All rights reserved | ISBN 978-1-4264-9660- 

8 | Original copyright 1917' 

Colophons: '[twelve-line blurb and website information] | Contact us: | BiblioBazaar | PO Box 



8" x 5": [1-8] 9-151 [152-56] = 156 pp. 



'CONTENTS'; p. 8: blank; pp. 9-10: 'PREFACE TO THE FOURTH EDITION' (by HLM); pp. 

11-151: text; p. 152: colophon 1; pp. 153-55: blank; p. 156: colophon 2. 


Location: KK. 

Notes: Published February 2007 (Global BIP). 

13

Sixth edition, first printing (2007) 


A 16.6.a 

Copyright page: '… ISBN 978-1-4264-8133-8 …' 

Colophons: '… [bar code in bottom left-hand corner; number and 'Made in the USA' in the 

middle] 

9-3/4" x 7-3/8": [1-8] 9-170 [171-74] = 174 pp. 

Location: KK. 

Notes: Published February 2007 (Global BIP). Large print edition. 

Seventh edition, first printing (2008) 

A 16.7.a 

Title page: 'A | BOOK | OF | PREFACES | H. L. MENCKEN | ARC [with an arc over it] 

MANOR | Rockville, Maryland | 2008' 

Copyright page: 'A Book of Prefaces by H. L. Mencken in its current format, copyright © Arc 

Manor 2008. This book, in | [nine more lines reserving rights and making disclaimers] | ISBN: 

978-1-60450-093-6 | Published by Arc Manor | P. O. Box 10339 | Rockville, MD 20849-0339 | 

www.ArcManor.com | Printed in the United States of America/United Kingdom' 


9" x 6": [1-6] 7-136 [137-40] = 140 pp. 


Contents: p. 1: half title; p. 2: blank; p. 3: title; p. 4: copyright; p. 5: 'Contents'; p. 6: blank; pp. 7- 

8: 'PREFACE TO THE FOURTH EDITION' (signed 'H. L. M. Baltimore, January 1, 1922'); pp. 

9-137: text; pp. 138-39: blank; p. 140: colophon. 

Binding: White paper wrappers printed in pink, orange, green, and black. 

Location: KK. 


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 17.1.d 

14

First edition, fourth printing: [Charleston, S.C.: BiblioBazaar, June 2009]. Publishing data from 

Global BIP. BiblioLife Reproduction Series, ISBN 1-110-434731-1. Reproduces second 

printing, paperback. Location: KK. 

A 17.2.a.i 

Binding A: Piece with presumed 'COMPANY' actually missing from copy noted. 

Additional location: RJS (binding B). 

A 17.2.a.ii 

Additional locations: GHT, KK (2), MiDU. 

A 17.2.b 

Second edition, second printing: [Whitefish, Mont.: Kessinger, October 2007]. Publishing data 

from Global BIP. Paperback. Location: KK 

A 17.2.c 

Second edition, third printing: [Alcester, G.B.: Read Books, February 2008]. Publishing data 

from Global BIP. Paperback. Location: KK. 

A 17.2.d 

Second edition, fourth printing: [Whitefish, Mont.: Kessinger, June 2008]. Publishing data from 

Global BIP. Hard cover. Location: KK 

A 17.3.a 

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

16.2.a). 


A 17.4.a 

Title page: 'Damn! | A Book of Calumny | Henry Louis Mencken' 

Copyright page: 'DAMN! | A BOOK OF CALUMNY | Published in the United States by 

IndyPublish.com | Boston, Massachusetts | Published in December 2006 | ISBN 1-4280-5199-6 

(hardcover) | ISBN 1-4280-5201-1 (paperback)' 

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

9" x 5-15/16" (binding A), 9" x 6" (binding B): [i-xii 1] 2 [3-4] 5 [6] 7 [8-9] 10-11 [12] 13 [14] 

15-16 [17-18] 19-21 [22] 23 [24] 25 [26] 27 [28-29] 30 [31-32] 33 [34] 35 [36] 37-39 [40] 41-42 

[43-44] 45 [46] 47 [48-50] 51 [52] 53-56 [57] 58-60 [61] 62-63 [64] 65 [66-67] 68 [69] 70 [71] 

72 [73] 74-77 [78] 79-82 [83-85] 86 [87-88] 89-91 [92-93] 94 [95-97] 98 [99-100] 101 [102-08] 

= 120 pp. 


Contents: pp. i-ii: blank; p. iii: half title; p. iv: blank; p. v: title; p. vi: copyright; pp. vii-x: 

'CONTENTS'; pp. xi-xii: blank; pp. 1-102: text; pp. 103-07: blank; p. 108: colophon. 

Binding A: Dark blue cloth stamped in blue on the spine. 

Binding B: White paper wrappers printed in black. 


15


Notes: Printed to order; code in colophon differs in two copies noted. 


A 17.5.a 

Title page: 'COLLECTED WORKS OF | HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN | Damn ! | and | In 

Defense of Women | [device] | BIBLIOBAZAAR' 

Copyright page: 'Copyright © 2007 BiblioBazaar | All rights reserved | ISBN: 978-1-4346-4151- 

9' 


21206 | Charleston, SC 29413' || '[bar code in bottom left-hand corner; number and 'Made in the 

USA' in the middle]' 

8" x 5": [1-10] 11-56 [57-58] 59-164 [165-68] = 168 pp. 


Contents: p. 1: half title; p. 2: copyright; p. 3: title; p. 4: blank; p. 5: half title; p. 6: blank; pp. 7- 

10: 'CONTENTS'; pp. 11-56: text of Damn!; p. 57: divisional half title; p. 58: blank; pp. 59-164: 

text of In Defense of Women; p. 165 blank; p. 166: colophon 1; p. 167: blank; p. 168: colophon 2. 


Location: KK. 




Copyright page: '… ISBN: 978-1-4346-4214-1' 

A 17.6.a 

Colophons: '[twelve-line blurb and website information] …' 

9-5/8" x 7-3/8": [1-10] 11-62 [63-64] 65-182 [183-88] = 188 pp. 


10: 'CONTENTS'; pp. 11-62: text of Damn!; p. 63: divisional half title; p. 64: blank; pp. 65-182: 

text of In Defense of Women; p. 183 blank; p. 184: colophon 1; pp. 185-87: blank; p. 188: 

colophon 2. 

Location: KK. 

Notes: Published September 2007 (Global BIP). Large print edition. 

*A 17.6.b-c 

16

Second and third printings: [Charleston, S.C.:] BiblioBazaar, [August 2008]. Date from Global 

BIP. Large print and smaller print, hardback. Location: KK (2). 


A 17.7.a 

Title page: 'DAMN! | A BOOK OF CALUMNY | H. L. MENCKEN | ARC [with arc over it] | 


Copyright page: 'Damn! A Book of Calumny by H. L. Mencken in its current format, copyright 

© Arc | Manor 2008.… | [eleven lines reserving rights] | ISBN: 978-1-60450-203-9 | Published 

by Arc Manor | P. O. Box 10339 | Rockville, MD 20849-0339 | www.ArcManor.com | Printed in 

the United States of America/United Kingdom' 


midst]' 

8" x 5": [1-6] 7-66 [67-68] = 68 pp. 


Contents: p. 1: half title; p. 2; blank; p. 3: title; p. 4: copyright; pp. 5-6: 'CONTENTS'; pp. 7-67: 

text; p. 68: colophon. 

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

Location: KK. 

A 18.1.a 

Dust jacket: … Spine: 'IN | DEFENSE | OF | WOMEN | [short rule] | H · L · MENCKEN | …' 

Additional locations: GHT (3 [2 in binding A, 1 in B]), RJS (2 in binding A), KK (binding B). 

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). 

Location: KK. 

A 18.1.d 

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 

17

Three states of binding noted: 'DEFENCE' on spine; 'DEFENSE' on spine in either dark blue or 

cream cloth. Additional location: KK (4). 

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, May 2005]. Publishing data 

from Global BIP. Paperback and hardcover Star Book reprint in large print. Beginning in 2006 

Kessinger separately published to order some elements of the book: The War Between the Sexes, 

Marriage, and The New Age. Locations: GHT, KK (2). 

A 18.3.a 

Dust jacket: White paper. Front: 'IN DEFENCE OF WOMEN | H.L. MENCKEN Author of 

"Prejudices: First | 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'. Noted in blue cloth stamped in silver and beige 

cloth stamped in blue. Location: KK (2). 

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 … 

Sixth edition, only printing (2000) 

A 18.6.a 

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.)' 

18

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. 


Locations: GHT, RJS. 

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

A 18.7.a 

Seventh edition, first on-demand 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. 


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. 


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. 

19

A 18.7.b 

Seventh edition, presumed second on-demand printing: [Boston: IndyPublish, July 2006]. New 

ISBN and bar code; page 104 blank. Paperback, with "L. H. Mencken" on recto of front 

wrapper. Location: KK. 

A 18.8.a 

Eighth edition, first on-demand printing (2002) 

Title page: 'In Defense of Women | H. L. Mencken | BookSurge Classics | Title No. 044 | 2002' 

Copyright page: 'Copyright © 2002 BookSurge LLC | All rights reserved. | ISBN 1-59109-044- 

X' 

Colophon: '[bar code] | [number] | Made in the USA' 

8" x 5-1/4": [i-xvi 1-3] 4 [5] 6-7 [8-9] 10-11 [12-13] 14-15 [16-17] 18-19 [20-23] 24-25 [26-27] 

28 [29] 30-31 [32-33] 34-35 [36-37] 38 [39] 40-41 [42-43] 44-45 [46-47] 48 [49] 50-51 [52-53] 

54 [55] 56 [57-59] 60-62 [63] 64-66 [67] 68-69 [70-71] 72 [73] 74-76 [77] 78-79 [80-81] 82 [83] 

84 [85] 86-87 [88-89] 90-91 [92-93] 94-95 [96-97] 98 [99] 100-01 [102-03] 104 [105-07] 108-10 

[111] 112-13 [114-15] 116-17 [118-19] 120 [121] 122-24 [125] 126-28 [129] 130-31 [132-33] 

134-35 [136-37] 138-40 [141] 142-43 [144-45] 146-48 [149-51] 152-53 [154-55] 156-58 [159] 

160-62 [163] 164-66 [167] 168 [169-72] = 188 pp. 


Contents: p. i: half title; p. ii: copyright; p. iii: title; p. iv: blank; p. v: half title; p. vi: blank; p. 

vii: 'Contents'; p. viii: blank; pp. ix-xv: 'Introduction'; p. xvi: blank; pp. 1-169: text; pp. 170-71: 


Binding: White wrappers printed in black and shades of brown and yellow. 

Location: KK. 

Notes: Location North Charleston, S.C.; published June 2002 (Global BIP). 

Ninth edition, only printing (2004) 

A 18.9.a 

Title page: 'IN DEFENSE OF | 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. 


Contents: p. i: title; p. ii: copyright; p. iii: 'CONTENTS'; p. iv: blank; pp. v-xi: 'INTRODUCTION' 

(signed 'H. L. MENCKEN'); p. xii: blank; pp. 1-116: text. 

20

Binding: Glossy white paper wrappers printed in several colors and with the Nikol Schattenstein 

portrait on the front. 

Locations: RJS, GHT, NhU. 

Notes: Text of the second (Free Lance) edition. 

Tenth edition, first printing (2006) 

A 18.10.a 

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

Copyright page: None 

Colophon: '[bar code] | [six-digit number] | Made in the USA' 

9" x 6": [i-ii] 1-106 [107-10] = 112 pp. 


Contents: p. i: 'Hard Press'; pp. ii, 1-2: blank; p. 3: title; p. 4: 'Contents'; pp. 5-8: 'Introduction' 

(signed 'H. L. Mencken'); pp. 9-106: text; pp. 107-09: blank; p. 110: colophon. 

Binding: White paper wrappers printed in green, brown, gray, and black; on rear: 'hardpress.net | 

ISBN 1-4069-4595-1 | [bar code]'. 


Location: KK. 

Notes: English spellings throughout. Published 3 November 2006 (Amazon.com); Hard Press is 

located at Sligo, Ireland (Global BIP). 

Eleventh edition, only printing (2007) 

A 18.11.a 


ESSENTIAL READING [ornament] | IN DEFENSE OF WOMEN | [ornament] | H. L. MENCKEN | 

INTRODUCTION TO THE NEW EDITION | BY FRED HOBSON | BARNES & NOBLE | [short rule] | 

NEW YORK' 


Introduction and Suggested Reading © 2007 | by Barnes & Noble, Inc. | Originally published in 

1922 | This 2007 edition published by Barnes & Noble, Inc. | [four lines reserving rights] | ISBN- 

13: 978-0-7607-8339-9 | ISBN-10: 0-7607-8339-X | Printed and bound in the United States of 

America | 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2' 

8-1/4" x 5-1/2": [i-vi] vii-xv [xvi] xvii-xxii 1-103 [104-06] = 128 pp. 


Contents: p. i: half title; p. ii: blank; p. iii: title; p. iv: copyright; p. v: 'CONTENTS'; p. vi: blank; 

pp. vii-xv: 'INTRODUCTION TO THE | NEW EDITION'; p. xvi: blank; pp. xvii-xxii: 'INTRODUCTION' 

21

(signed 'H. L. MENCKEN'); pp. 1-102: text; p. 103: 'SUGGESTED READING'; pp. 104-06: 

blank. 

Binding: Stiff white paper wrappers printed in tan, dull orange, black, and sepia; price 'U.S. 

$6.95/Canada $9.95'. 

Location: RJS. 

Notes: The text is that of the second (Free Lance) edition. 

A 18.12.a 

Twelfth edition, first printing: [Charleston, S.C.:] BiblioBazaar, [September 2007]. See 

Collected Works (A 17.5.a). 

A 18.13.a 

Thirteenth edition, first printing: [Charleston, S.C.:] BiblioBazaar, [September 2007]. See 

Collected Works (A 17.6.a). 

*A 18.13.b-c 

Second and third printings: See A 17.6.b-c. 

Fourteenth edition, first printing (2008) 

A 18.14.a 

Title page: 'IN DEFENSE | OF | WOMEN | H. L. MENCKEN | ARC [with an arc over it] 


Copyright page: 'In Defense of Women by H. L. Mencken in its current format, copyright © 

Arc Manor 2008. | [ten lines reserving rights and making disclaimers] | ISBN: 978-1-60450-128- 

5 | Published by Arc Manor | P. O. Box 10339 | Rockville, MD 20849-0339 | 

www.ArcManor.com | Printed in the United States of America/United Kingdom' 


8-1/2" x 5-1/2": [1-6] 7-116 [117-20] = 120 pp. 


Contents: p. 1: half title; p. 2: blank; p. 3: title; p. 4: copyright; p. 5: 'CONTENTS'; p. 6: blank; 

pp. 7-12: 'INTRODUCTION' (signed 'H. L. Mencken'); pp. 13-117: text; pp. 118-19: blank; p. 

120: colophon. 

Binding: White paper wrappers printed in black, gray, rust, and green. 

Location: KK. 

Fifteenth edition, first printing (2009) 

*A 18.15.a 

Title page: '[rule] | IN DEFENSE OF WOMEN | [rule] | Henry Louis Mencken | [GB logo on 

two lines] | General | Books | A General Books LLC Publication' 

Copyright page: 'Modifications Copyright © 2009 by General Books LLC. All rights reserved. | 

Published by General Books LLC. | [thirteen lines regarding copyright and "Limit of 

22

Liability/Disclaimer of Warranty"] | [four lines on how the book was "recreated"] | For 

information on our books please go to www.general-books.net.' 

Colophon: '[to left of bar code] Breinigsville, PA USA | 04 November 2009 | [code with 'BV', 

'B', and 'P']' 

9" x 6": [i-iv] v [vi] 1-5 [6] 7-13 [14] 15-27 [28] 29-77 [78] = 84 pp. 


Contents: p. i: half title; p. ii: blank; p. iii: title; p. iv: copyright; p. v: 'CONTENTS'; p. vi: blank; 

pp. 1-5: 'INTRODUCTION'; p. 6: blank; pp. 7-77: text; p. 78: colophon. 

Binding: White paper wrappers printed in black. 

Location: KK. 

Notes: Published 6 August 2009 (Amazon.com). By "recreated" they mean optically scanned. 

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 

by | 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 19.2.d 

Second edition, fourth printing: New York: [Cosimo, 2009]. Paperback. Location: KK. 

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'; 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 

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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.i 

Fourth edition, fourteenth printing, American issue … 

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

A 19.4.n.ii 

Fourth edition, fourteenth printing, English issue: London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, [1949?]. 

Label pasted over imprint on title page (1-3/8" x 6"): 'LONDON | ROUTLEDGE AND KEGAN 

PAUL LTD | BROADWAY HOUSE, 68-74 CARTER LANE, E.C. 4'. 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 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.y 

Fourth edition, twenty-fifth printing: New York: Knopf, 1970. On copyright page: 'eighteenth 

printing, November 1970'. Location: KK. 

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. 

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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: New York: Knopf, 1990. On copyright page: 'twentyfourth 

printing, September 1990'. Location: KK. 

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: 'twentysixth 

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. 

Fifth edition, first printing? (2008) 

A 19.5.a 

Title page: 'The American Language: An | Inquiry into the Development | of English in the 

United States | [rule] | H. L. Mencken' 

Copyright page: 'The American Language: | An Inquiry into the Development of English in the 

United States | H. L. Mencken | Copyright © 2008 Dodo Press and its licensors. All Rights 

Reserved.' 

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

9" x 6": [A-T] i-li [lii] 1-501 [502-04] = 576 pp. 


Contents: p. A: title; p. B: 'DODO [dodo bird within circle] PRESS'; p. C: copyright; p. D: 

blank; pp. E-H: 'CONTENTS'; pp. I-L: 'Preface to the First Edition' (signed 'MENCKEN. | 

Baltimore, January 1, 1919.'); pp. M-T: 'Preface to the Second Edition' (signed 'H. L. M. | 

Baltimore, November 12, 1921.'); pp. i-li: 'Introductory'; p. lii: blank; pp. 1-388: text; pp. 389- 

436: 'Appendices'; pp. 437-501: 'Bibliography'; pp. 502-03: blank; p. 504: colophon. 

Binding: White paper wrappers printed in many colors. 

Location: KK. 

Notes: Gloucester, G.B.: Dodo Press, December 2008 (Global BIP). Text of second edition. 

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 

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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]. Tenth printing reproduced in large print, 

paperback and hardback. Date from Global BIP. Locations: GHT, KK (2). 

A 20.1.v 

[Rockville, Md.: Wildside, November 2007]. Reproduction of A 20.1.g despite indication 

'Second Printing, January, 1920'; paperback and hardback. Date from Global BIP. Location: 

KK (2). 

Second edition, first printing (2010) 

*A 20.2.a 

Title page: 'H. L. MENCKEN | [short rule] | PREJUDICES: | FIRST, SECOND, AND THIRD 

SERIES | [short rule] | [LOA device] | THE LIBRARY OF AMERICA' 

Copyright page: 'Volume compilation, notes, and chronology copyright © 2010 by | Literary 

Classics of the United States, Inc., New York, N.Y. | [fourteen lines reserving rights and citing 

permissions to quote] | [four lines on the paper] | Distributed to the trade in the United States | by 

Penguin Group (USA) Inc. | and in Canada by Penguin Books Canada Ltd. | Library of Congress 

Control Number: 2010924448 | ISBN 978-1-59853-074-2 | [short rule] | First Printing | The 

Library of America–206 | Manufactured in the United States of America' 

Colophon: '[rule] | [seven lines on type, paper, and binding] | [Compo-]sition by Dedicated 

Business Services. Printing by | Malloy Incorporated. Binding by Dekker Book- | binding. 

Designed by Bruce Campbell.' 

7-13/16" x 4-13/16": [i-ix] x-xii [1-2] 3-149 [150-52] 153-298 [299-300] 301-489 [490-92] 493- 

516 [517-18] 519-91 [592] 593-610 [611-28] = 640 pp. 

[1-10] 32 = 320 leaves. 

Contents: p. i: 'H. L. MENCKEN'; p. ii: blank; p. iii: title; p. iv: copyright; p. v: 'MARION 

ELIZABETH RODGERS | WROTE THE CHRONOLOGY AND NOTES FOR THIS VOLUME'; 

p. vi: blank; p. vii: 'H. L. Mencken's | Prejudices | is published with a gift in honor of | JAY 

CARL PENSKE | on his 30th birthday | from his parents, | Kathryn & Roger Penske'; p. viii: 

blank; pp. ix-xii: 'Contents'; pp. 1-490: text; pp. 491-516: 'APPENDIX | from | MY LIFE | AS 

AUTHOR AND EDITOR'; pp. 517-610: 'CHRONOLOGY | NOTE ON THE TEXTS | NOTES | 

INDEX'; pp. 611-14: 'THE LIBRARY OF AMERICA SERIES'; p. 615: colophon; pp. 616-28: 

blank. Other blank pages: 2,150, 152, 300, 490, 492, 518. 

Text: As in corrected second printings: A 20.1.b, A 24.1.b, A 26.1.b. 

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Binding: Light brown cloth stamped in red and gilt on the spine; ribbon bookmark. 

Multicolored box for the two-volume set; ISBN 978-1-59853-076-6. 

Dust jacket: White paper printed in red, white, blue, and black on the outside, black on the 

inside; price $35. 

Location: RJS (dj). 


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 


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 and hardback. Locations: GHT, KK. 

A 21.1.e 

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

A 21.1.f 

Only edition, sixth printing: [Alcester, G.B.: Read Books, May 2008]. Publishing data from 

Global BIP. Advertised as by Klempner Press, ISBN 1-4097-1323-7. Paperback. Location: 

KK. 

A 21.1.g 

Only edition, seventh printing: [Alcester, G.B.: Read Books, May 2008]. Publishing data from 

Global BIP. Advertised as by Forbes Press, ISBN 1-4097-2040-3. Paperback. Location: KK. 

A 21.1.h 

Only edition, eighth printing: [Alcester, G.B.: Read Books, May 2009]. Publishing data from 

Global BIP. Advertised as by Cornford Press, ISBN 1-4446-3016-4 (not in GBIP). 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. 

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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 22.2.b 

Second edition, second printing: [Whitefish, Mont.: Kessinger, May 2006]. Publishing data 

from Global BIP. Reproduces second state, paperback and hardback. Printed to order. 


A 22.2.c 

Second edition, third printing: [Alcester, G.B.: Read Books, June 2008]. Publishing data from 

Global BIP. Advertised as by Mcgiffert Press, ISBN 1-4097-7823-1. Reproduces second state 

(magnified), paperback. Location: KK. 

*A 22.2.d-e 

Second edition, fourth and fifth printings: [Charleston, S.C.: BiblioLife, June 2009]. Date from 

Global BIP; the publisher is also known as BiblioBazaar. Reproduces second state; paperback 

and hardback with different ISBNs and codes. Location: KK (2). 

A 22.3.a 

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

16.2.a). 


A 22.4.a 

Title page: 'GEORGE JEAN NATHAN AND | HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN | THE 

AMERICAN CREDO | A Contribution Toward the | Interpretation of the National Mind | 

[device] | BIBLIOBAZAAR' 

Copyright page: 'Copyright © 2008 BiblioBazaar | All rights reserved | Original copyright: 1920' 




8" x 5": [1-6] 7-108 [109-12] = 112 pp. 



108: text: 'PREFACE' and 488 credos; p. 109: blank; p. 110 colophon 1; p. 111: blank; p. 112: 

colophon 2. 


Location: KK. 



A 22.5.a 

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9-5/8" x 7-3/8": [1-6] 7-59 [60] 61-129 [130-32] = 132 pp. 


129: text: 'PREFACE' and 488 credos; p. 130 colophon 1; p. 131: blank; p. 132: colophon 2. 

Blank page of text: 60. 

Location: KK. 

Notes: Published February 2008 (Global BIP). 'Large Print Edition' indicated on wrapper. 


A 22.6.a 

Title page: 'The American Credo: | A Contribution Toward | the Interpretation of the | National 

Mind | [rule] | George Jean Nathan and | H. L. Mencken' 

Copyright page: 'THE AMERICAN CREDO | A Contribution Toward the Interpretation | of the 

National Mind | BY | GEORGE JEAN NATHAN | and H. L. MENCKEN | 1920 | Copyright © 

2008 Dodo Press and its licensors. All Rights Reserved.' 


9" x 6": [A-D] i-l 1-66 [67-70] = 124 pp. 


Contents: p. A: title; p. B: 'DODO [dodo device in a circle] PRESS'; p. C: copyright; p. D: list of 

books by Mencken and by Nathan; pp. i-xlix: 'PREFACE' (signed by Nathan and Mencken, 

1920); p. l: blank; pp. 1-66: text: 488 items; pp. 67-69: blank; p. 70: colophon. 

Binding: White paper wrappers printed in multiple colors. 

Location: KK. 

Notes: Gloucester, G.B.: Dodo Press, April 2008 (Global BIP). 


A 22.7.a 

Title page: 'The American Credo | A Contribution Toward the Interpretation | of the National 

Mind | George Jean Nathan and H. L. Mencken' 

Copyright page: 'THE AMERICAN CREDO | A CONTRIBUTION TOWARD THE 

INTERPRETATION | OF THE NATIONAL MIND | Published in the United States by 

IndyPublish.com | Boston, Massachusetts | Published in April 2008 | ISBN 1-4378-0753-4 

(hardcover) | ISBN 1-4378-0757-7 (paperback)' 


9" x 6": [i-liv 1] 2-63 [64-66] = 120 pp. 

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Contents: pp. i-ii: blank; p. iii: half title; p. iv: blank; p. v: title; p. vi: copyright; pp. vii-lii: 

'PREFACE' (signed by Nathan and Mencken, 1920); pp. liii-iv: blank; pp. 1-63: text: 488 items; 

pp. 64-65: blank; p. 66: colophon. 


Binding B: White paper wrappers printed in black. 


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 

Title page: '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 soybased 

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. 


Contents: p. i: title; p. ii: copyright; p. iii: 'CONTENTS'; p. iv: blank; pp. 1-2: 'PUBLISHER'S 

NOTE' (signed 'CHAZ BUFE'); p. 2: 'EDITING NOTE' (signed 'C.B.'); pp. 3-17: 

'INTRODUCTION' (by HLM); p. 18: blank; p. 19: 'PREFACE' (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. 


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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. 

Third edition, unknown printings (2003) 

A 23.3.a-b 

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. 


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 

Title page: 'THE ANTICHRIST | Friedrich Nietzsche' 



midst]'. 

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


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. 

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Notes: Published 30 June 2004 (Amazon.com) in Whitefish, Mont. (Global BIP). Mencken's 

introduction omitted. Evidently printed to order. 


A 23.5.a 

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. 


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 23.6.a 

Title page: 'The Antichrist | by | F. W. Nietzsche | Translated from the German | with an 

introduction by | H. L. MENCKEN | The Echo Library 2006' 

Copyright page: 'Published by | The Echo Library | Echo Library | 131 High St. | Teddington | 

Middlesex TW11 8HH | www.echo-library.com | Please report serious faults in the text to 

complaints@echo-library.com | ISBN 1-40683-460-2' 

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

9" x 6": [1] 2-64 [65-68] = 68 pp. 


Contents: p. 1: title; p. 2: copyright; pp. 3-13: 'INTRODUCTION' (signed by Mencken); p. 14: 

'PREFACE' (by Nietzsche); pp. 15-64: text of translation; p. 65: details of Echo Library; pp. 66- 

67: blank; p. 68: colophon. 

Binding: White paper wrappers printed in multiple colors. 

Location: KK. 

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A 23.7.a 

Title page: '[gothic] The | AntiChrist | [roman] by | Friedrich Nietzsche | Translated from the 

German | with an introduction by | H. L. Mencken' 

Copyright page: 'The Antichrist | by Fredrich [sic] Nietzsche | translated by H. L. Mencken | 

Copyright © 2007 by El Paso Norte Press | [six lines reserving rights] | First Edition - May 2007 | 

Published by | EL [sic] Paso Norte Press | 404 Christopher Ave | El Paso, Texas 79912 | ISBN 1- 

934255-09-2 | ISBN 13 978-1-934255-09-4 | Printed in the United States of America' 


midst]' 

8-1/2" x 5-1/2": [A-D] i-ii 1-96 [97-102] = 106 pp. 


Contents: pp. A-B: blank; p. C: title; p. D: copyright; p. i: table of contents; p. ii: blank; pp. 1- 

17: 'INTRODUCTION'; p. 18: 'PREFACE' (by Nietzsche); pp. 19-96: text of translation; pp. 97- 

101: blank; p. 102: colophon. 

Binding: Heavy white paper wrappers printed in multiple colors. 

Location: KK. 

Eighth edition, first printing (2007) 

A 23.8.a 

Title page: '[within elaborate box] THE ANTICHRIST | Translated from the German | with an 

introduction by | H. L. MENCKEN | [ornament] | [rule] | F. W. NIETZSCHE' 

Copyright page: 'COPYRIGHT, 1918, BY ALFRED A. KNOPF, INC.' 

Colophon: '[to left of bar code] Printed in the United States | [code with 'LV', 'B', and 'A']' 

9-3/16" x 7-7/16": [1-7] 8-23 [24-25] 26 [27] 28-107 [108-12] = 112 pp. 


Contents: p. 1: title; p. 2: copyright; p. 3: 'CONTENTS'; p. 4: blank; p. 5: half title; p. 6: blank; 

pp. 7-23: 'INTRODUCTION'; p. 24: blank; p. 25-26: 'PREFACE' (by Nietzsche); pp. 27-107: 

text of translation; pp. 108-11: order forms for other Jungle Books; p. 112: colophon. 

Binding: Heavy white paper wrappers printed in multiple colors. 

Location: KK. 

Notes: Champagne, Ill.: Standard Publications (publisher), Book Jungle (imprint), June 2007 

(Global BIP). 

Ninth edition, first printing (2007) 

A 23.9.a 

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Title page: 'The Antichrist | [rule] | Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche | Translated by H. L. Mencken' 


Colophons: 'THE ANTICHRIST | by | F. W. NIETZSCHE | Translated from the German with 

an introduction by H. L. MENCKEN | Set up, electrotyped, and printed by the Vail-Ballou Press, 

Binghamton, N. | Y. | Paper manufactured by W. C. Hamilton & Sons, Miquon, Pa., and | 

furnished by W. F. Etherington & Co., New York.' || '[to left of bar code] Printed in the United 

States | [code with 'LV', 'BA', and 'A']' 

9" x 6": [i-xxii] 1-64 [65-68] = 90 pp. 


Contents: p. i: title; p. ii: 'DODO [dodo bird within circle] PRESS'; p. iii: colophon 1; p. iv: 

blank; p. v: 'CONTENTS'; p. vi: blank; pp. vii-xx: 'INTRODUCTION'; p. xxi: 'PREFACE' (by 

Nietzsche); p. xxii: blank; pp. 1-64: text of translation; pp. 65-67: blank; p. 68: colophon 2. 

Binding: Heavy white paper wrappers printed in black and brown. 

Location: KK. 

Notes: Gloucester, G.B.: Dodo Press, August 2007 (Global BIP). 

Tenth edition, first printing (2007) 

A 23.10.a 

Title page: 'The Anti-Christ | Friedrich Nietzsche' 

Copyright page: 'Friedrich Nietzsche | Filiquarian Publishing, LLC is publishing this | edition of 

The Anti-Christ, due to its public | domain status. | The cover design of The Anti-Christ is | 

copyright 2007, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC. | Filiquarian Publishing, LLC' 

Colophon: '[to left of bar code] Printed in the United States | [code with 'LV', 'B', and 'A']' 

9" x 6": [1] 2-116 [117-20] = 120 pp. 


Contents: p. 1: title; p. 2: copyright; p. 3: table of contents; p. 4: 'Friedrich Nietzsche'; pp. 5-23: 

'Introduction by H. L. Mencken'; p. 24: 'Friedrich Nietzsche'; pp. 25-26: 'Author's Preface'; pp. 

27-116: text of translation; pp. 117-19: blank; p. 120: colophon. 

Binding: White paper wrappers printed in black and shades of gray. 

Location: KK. 

Notes: Minneapolis, Minn.: Filiquarian Publishing, November 2007 (Global BIP). 

Eleventh edition, first printing (2008) 

Title page: 'The Anti-Christ' 

A 23.11.a 

34

Copyright page: Binding A: 'The Anti-Christ | by Friedrich Nietzsche | © 2008 Wilder 

Publications | This book is a product of its time and does not reflect the same values as it would 

if it were | written today. Parents might wish to discuss with their children how views on race 

have | changed before allowing them to read this classic work. | [three lines reserving rights] | 

Wilder Publications, LLC. | PO Box 3005 | Radford VA 24143-3005 | ISBN 10: 1-60459-327-X | 

ISBN 13: 978-1-60459-327-3'. Binding B: '… ISBN 10: 1-60459-326-1 | ISBN 13: 978-1- 

60459-326-6'. 


9" x 6": [1-6] 7-23 [24] 25-107 [108] = 108 pp. 


Contents: Binding A: p. 1: title; p. 2: blank; p. 3: copyright; pp. 4-5: blank; pp. 6-23: 

'Introduction'; p. 24: 'Preface' (by Nietzsche); pp. 25-107: text of translation; p. 108: colophon. 

Binding B: 'Table of Contents' on p. 5. 

Binding A: Slick reddish-brown boards printed in multiple colors. 

Binding B: White paper wrappers printed in multiple colors. 


Notes: Published April 2008 (Global BIP), the same month as the next item. 

A 23.12.a 

Twelfth edition, first printing?: [Radford, Va.: Wilder Publications, April 2008]. See The 

Selected Writings of Friedrich Nietzsche (A 3.5.a). 

A 24.1.a 

Binding A: … unevenly trimmed.… 

Additional locations: RJS (2 in binding B, dj), GHT (binding B, dj). 

*A 24.1.b.i 

In response to a letter of 24 March 1921 from HLM (Pratt Library, courtesy of Marion Rodgers), 

for both issues of the second printing Knopf corrected errors at pp. 50/line 1, 84/8, 100/8th and 

3rd from bottom, 109/3rd from bottom, 127/7, and 248/14. Additional location: KK. 

… printing … 

A 24.1.c 

A 24.1.k 

[Whitefish, Mont.: Kessinger, 2006]. Place and publisher from Global BIP. Printed to order. 

Location: KK. 

*A 24.2.a 

Second edition, first printing: [New York]: Library of America, [2010]. See Prejudices (A 

20.2.a). 

A 26.1.e 

Noted also in regular blue binding and Borzoi boards design #4A. Additional locations: KK (2), 

RJS. 

35

A 26.1.g 

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

New York: Octagon, 1985. Location: KK. 

A 26.1.i 

A 26.1.k 

[Whitefish, Mont.: Kessinger, May 2006]. Publishing data from Global BIP. Reproduces third 

printing, American issue. Paperback, printed to order. Location: KK. 

A 26.1.l 

[Whitefish, Mont.: Kessinger, July 2007]. Publishing data from Global BIP. Reproduces third 

printing, American issue. Hardcover, printed to order. Location: KK. 

*A 26.2.a 


20.2.a). 

A 29.1.a 

Copyright page: … INC. · | PUBLISHED … YORK. · | 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. The first 

gathering has ten leaves, the rest eight, but a copy bound without title/copyright leaf was noted in 

design #3 (eight leaves in first gathering, the cognate second and penultimate leaves [pp. 1-2, 15- 

16] missing). Additional locations: KK (2, #4 with ##4A/4B), RJS (2, #4A with ##4B/4C), D 

(#3). 



A 29.1.i 

*A 29.2.a 

Title page: 'H. L. MENCKEN | [short rule] | PREJUDICES: | FOURTH, FIFTH, AND SIXTH 

SERIES | [short rule] | [LOA device] | THE LIBRARY OF AMERICA' 

Copyright page: 'Volume compilation, notes, and chronology copyright © 2010 by | Literary 

Classics of the United States, Inc., New York, N.Y. | [twelve lines reserving rights and citing 

permissions to quote] | [four lines on the paper] | Distributed to the trade in the United States | by 

Penguin Group (USA) Inc. | and in Canada by Penguin Books Canada Ltd. | Library of Congress 

Control Number: 2010924447 | ISBN 978-1-59853-075-9 | [short rule] | First Printing | The 

Library of America–207 | Manufactured in the United States of America' 

Colophon: '[rule] | [seven lines on type, paper, and binding] | [Compo-]sition by Dedicated 

Business Services. Printing by | Malloy Incorporated. Binding by Dekker Book- | binding. 

Designed by Bruce Campbell.' 

36

7-13/16" x 4-13/16": [i-ix] x-xiii [xiv 1-2] 3-178 [179-80] 181-360 [361-62] 363-547 [548-50] 

551-612 [613-26] = 640 pp. 

[1-10] 32 = 320 leaves. 

Contents: p. i: 'H. L. MENCKEN'; p. ii: blank; p. iii: title; p. iv: copyright; p. v: 'MARION 

ELIZABETH RODGERS | WROTE THE CHRONOLOGY AND NOTES FOR THIS VOLUME'; 

p. vi: blank; p. vii: 'H. L. Mencken's | Prejudices | is published with a gift in honor of | JAY 

CARL PENSKE | on his 30th birthday | from his parents, | Kathryn & Roger Penske'; p. viii: 

blank; pp. ix-xiii: 'Contents'; p. xiv: blank; pp. 1-548: text; pp. 549-612: 'CHRONOLOGY | 

NOTE ON THE TEXTS | NOTES | INDEX'; pp. 613-16: 'THE LIBRARY OF AMERICA 

SERIES'; p. 617: colophon; pp. 618-26: blank. Other blank pages: 2, 180, 362, 548, 550. 

Text: As in A 29.1.d (third trade printing), A 34.1.c (second trade printing), A 36.1.c (second 

state of second limited printing). 

Binding: Light brown cloth stamped in red and gilt on the spine; ribbon bookmark. 

Multicolored box for the two-volume set; ISBN 978-1-59853-076-6. 

Dust jacket: White paper printed in red, white, blue, and black on the outside, black on the 

inside; price $35. 

Location: RJS (dj). 


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 33.2.b 

Second edition, second printing: [Alcester, G.B.: Read Books, March 2007]. Publishing data 

from Global BIP. Advertised as by Holmes Press, ISBN 1-4067-4136-0. Paperback. Location: 

KK. 

A 33.2.c 

37

Second edition, third printing: [Alcester, G.B.: Read Books, November 2008]. Date from 

Amazon.com; not in Global BIP. Advertised as by Holmes Press, ISBN 1-4437-2637-0. 

Hardcover. Location: KK. 


*A 33.3.a 

Title page: '[all over dollar sign in gray] NOTES on DEMOCRACY | H. L. MENCKEN | A 

NEW EDITION | Introduction and Annotations by | MARION ELIZABETH RODGERS | Afterword 

by | ANTHONY LEWIS | DISSIDENT BOOKS | New York' 

Copyright page: 'Copyright © 1926 by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. | Introduction and annotations by 

Marion Elizabeth Rodgers | © 2009 Dissident Books, Ltd. | Afterword by Anthony Lewis © 

2009 Dissident Books, Ltd. | Published by arrangement with Alfred A. Knopf, | a division of 

Random House, Inc. | [seven lines of contact information] | [eleven lines of Library of Congress 

Cataloging-in-Publication data] | Book design and type formatting by Bernard Schleifer | 

Manufactured in the United States of America' 

8-1/4" x 5-1/2": [1-5] 6 [7] 8-23 [24-29] 30-67 [68-71] 72-114 [115-17] 118-43 [144-47] 148-57 

[158-59] 160-204 [205] 206 [207-08] = 208 pp. 


Contents: p. 1: half title; p. 2: blank; p. 3: title; p. 4: copyright; pp. 5-6: 'Contents'; pp. 7-23: 

'Introduction'; p. 24: blank; p. 25: 'Editorial Note'; p. 26: blank; pp. 27-157: text; p. 158: blank; 

pp. 159-204: 'Annotations'; pp. 205-06: 'Afterword'; p. 207: biographies of Mencken, Rodgers, 

and Lewis; p. 208: blank. Blank pages of text: 28, 68, 70, 116, 144, 146. 

Binding: Heavy white paper wrappers printed in black and red; price 'US $14.95/CAN $15.95'. 


Notes: Published October 2008 (Global BIP). 

Review copy: 8-1/4" x 5-1/2". At top of back cover: 'UNREVISED AND UNPUBLISHED 

PROOFS, CONFIDENTIAL. PLEASE DO NOT QUOTE FOR PUBLICATION | UNTIL 

VERIFIED WITH FINISHED BOOK. NOT FOR DISTRIBUTION TO THE PUBLIC.' At 

bottom: 'PUBLICATION DATE: OCTOBER 2008 | PAGES: 208 · TRIM SIZE: 5 1/2" X 8 1/4" 

· PRICE: $14.95 | ISBN 978-1-9773788-1-4 | [three lines of distribution and contact 

information]'. On spine: '[white on black, reading down] NOTES on DEMOCRACY H. L. 

MENCKEN Dissident Books'. The copyright page lacks the last two lines, and Anthony Lewis's 

biographical blurb on p. [207] is different. 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 

38

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 34.2.a 


29.2.a). 

A 36.1.a.ii 

Binding: … Spine: … H.L.MENCKEN … 

Additional location: RJS (2, dj). 


A 36.1.e 

*A 36.2.a 


29.2.a). 

Colophon: … YORK'. 

Additional location: RJS. 

A 37.1.a 

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 ('OCT 3 1946' stamped in 

orange on front flap of dust jacket): '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.' Locations: GHT (dj), 

KK (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 

39

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 40.2.h 

Second edition, eighth printing: Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ., [2006]. On copyright page: 

'The Buncombe Collection, 2006 | 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1'. 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. 

Location: KK. 

Location: KK. 

A 44.1.c 

A 44.1.d 

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, publisher's note 

by Thaler, editor's note and census of copies of first printing 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") … 

40

A 49.1.j 

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

A 49.1.n 

Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ., [2006]. On copyright page: 'The Buncombe Collection, 2006 | 

9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1'. Location: KK. 

A 49.2.a 


Add to Notes: Published February 1944. 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 



165.15-16. 

A 51.m 


9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1'. Location: KK. 

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 


Location: KK. 

A 53.1.m.i 

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. 

41

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 


A 53.1.u 

Twenty-first printing: New York: Knopf, 2001. On copyright page: 'Nineteenth printing, June 


*A 54.1.a 



165.16. 

Review copy: Pale blue slip (2-1/2" x 4") laid in to trade printing: 'This book will be published: | 

DATE: [stamped in red] MAR 1 1943 | PRICE: [stamped in red] $3.00 | Please do not release 

reviews until the | above date. We would appreciate two | copies of your review. | Alfred A. 

Knopf, Inc.' Location: KK. 

A 54.1.c 

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

A 54.1.n 


9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1'. Location: KK. 

A 54.2.a. 


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. 

Location: KK. 

Wove paper; thickness 1-7/16". 

A 56.1.f 

A 56.1.h 

A 56.1.j.ii 

42

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. 

Location: KK. 

A 56.1.o 

A 56.1.r 

Eighteenth printing: New York: Knopf, 1988. On copyright page: 'Fourteenth Printing, March 


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, Irvingon-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 …. The label also noted 

measuring 1-1/8" x 5-1/4" and without the period following 'LTD'. 

Additional locations: RJS, KK (2), GHT. 

Wove paper; thickness 1-5/8". 

A 59.1.e 

A 59.1.g.ii 

43

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 


A 59.1.o 

Fifteenth printing: New York: Knopf, 1990. On copyright page: 'Eleventh Printing, March 


A 61.1.a 

Dust jacket: … A MENCKEN.… 

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: KK, RJS. 

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 … 

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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 62.1.f 

Sixth printing: Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ., [2006]. On copyright page: 'The Buncombe 

Collection, 2006 | 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1'. Location: KK. 

A 63.1.a 

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

A 63.2.c 

Second edition, third printing: Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ., [2006]. On copyright page: 'The 

Buncombe Collection, 2006 | 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1'. 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 slip laid in: '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 

Text: '… "Final Estimate" ("Mark Twain").… 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. 

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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; S1.26; S 2.9, 22 … 

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thinner paper (1-11/16" thick as opposed to 1-3/4" for first two printings), same page size, and 

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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 

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spine of subsequent trade jacket. Folded sheet inserted (11" x 8-1/2"), announcing 'Publication 

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Consulting Editor Joyce Fante | Publication Date: August 25, 1989 | Price: ISBN: | $10.00 

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paperback Anchor Book printings indicated by lowest number on copyright page. Latest noted is 

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A 88.1.a Only edition, only printing (2001) 

A 88 FROM BALTIMORE TO BOHEMIA 

Title page: 'From Baltimore | to Bohemia | The Letters of H. L. Mencken | and George Sterling | 

Edited by | S. T. Joshi | [FD device] | Madison · 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. Not registered at Copyright 

Office. 

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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 

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 | ∞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] 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] 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. 

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Publication: Published January 2002. $29.95. 2000 copies printed. Not registered at Copyright 

Office. 

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 


Title pages: [ii] 'H. L. | Ohio University Press / Athens' || [iii] 'Mencken | on American | 

Literature | [ornament] Edited by S. T. Joshi' 

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] 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'; p. 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," 

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"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"). 


'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 Literature | [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 

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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 | [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. 


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, 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, 

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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 | [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'. Spine, on yellow field: '[reading down] 

H. L. MENCKEN [over rule over] ON RELIGION | [horizontal photo] | [reading down] EDITED 

BY S. T. JOSHI | [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 

Title page: 'H. L. Mencken | Mencken's | AMERICA | [the rest to left of typewriter on stand] 

EDITED BY | S. T. JOSHI | Ohio University Press · 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] 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" (binding A), 8-15/16" x 6" (binding B): [i-iv] v-xx 1-5 [6] 7-235 [236] 237-44 = 

264 pp. 

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[1-6] 16 [7] 4 [8-9] 16 = 132 leaves (binding A); perfect bound (binding B). 

Contents: p. i: half title; p. ii: blank; p. iii: title; p. iv: copyright; pp. v-vi: 'Contents'; pp. viixviii: 

'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' (pp. 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. 

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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 

Title page: 'a.k.a. H.L. Mencken | 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. 


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. 

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Mencken | 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. Not registered at 

Copyright Office. 

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

Locations: RJS, MChB, GHT. 

A 94 COLLECTED POEMS 

A 94.1.a Only edition, on-demand printing (2009) 

Title page: 'H. L. MENCKEN | COLLECTED POEMS | Edited by S. T. Joshi | [spider and fly in 

web] | Hippocampus Press | [rule] | New York' 

Copyright page: 'Introduction and editorial matter | copyright © 2009 by S. T. Joshi | Published 

by Hippocampus Press | P.O. Box 641, New York, NY 10156. | www.hippocampuspress.com | 

[five lines of permissions] | Cover design by Barbara Briggs Silbert. | Hippocampus Press logo 

designed by Anastasia Damianakos. | [three lines reserving rights] | First Edition | 1 3 5 7 9 8 6 4 

2 | ISBN: 0-9824296-3-0 | ISBN-13: 978-0-9824296-3-1' 

Colophon: '[to left of bar code] Breinigsville, PA USA | [date] | [code with 'BV', 'B', and 'P']' 

8-1/2" x 5-1/2": [1-4] 5-7 [8] 9-12 [13-14] 15-137 [138] 139-41 [142] 143-45 [146-50] = 150 pp. 


Contents: p. 1: half title; p. 2: blank; p. 3: title; p. 4: copyright; pp. 5-7: 'CONTENTS'; p. 8: blank; 

pp. 9-12: 'INTRODUCTION'; p. 13: half title; p. 14: blank; pp. 15-126: text; pp. 127-28: 'APPENDIX 

| A KRUGER | By Edmond Rostand'; pp. 129-37: 'NOTES'; p. 138: blank; pp. 139-41: 'INDEX OF 

TITLES'; p. 142: blank; pp. 143-45: 'INDEX OF FIRST LINES'; pp. 146-49: blank; p. 150: colophon. 

Typography and paper: 6-5/8" x 4-1/8" (varies); lines per page vary with size of poem. No 

heads. Footers: recto, 'CONTENTS [page number]' (p. 7), 'INTRODUCTION [page number]' (p. 11), 

'H. L. MENCKEN [page number]' (pp. 15-125), 'NOTES [page number]' (pp. 131-37), 'INDEX OF 

TITLES [page number]' (p. 141), 'INDEX OF FIRST LINES [page number]' (p. 145); verso, '[page 

number] Collected Poems' (pp. 6, 10-12, 16-136, 140, 144). Wove paper. 

Binding: Heavy white paper wrappers. Front, recto, all on red field: '[as white showing through] 

COLLECTED POEMS | [sepia photo of HLM] | [tan] H. L. MENCKEN | [as white showing 

through] Edited by S. T. Joshi'. Spine, all on red field, reading down: '[as white showing 

through] Edited by S. T. Joshi COLLECTED POEMS: [tan] H. L. MENCKEN [as white 

showing through] Hippocampus Press'. Back, verso, all on red field: '[as white showing through] 

COLLECTED POEMS | [tan] H. L. MENCKEN | [as white showing through] Edited by S. T. 

Joshi | [sixteen-line blurb] | [four-line biography of HLM] | [three-line biography of Joshi] | [to 

left of black bar code on white showing through] [spider and fly in web] | Hippocampus Press | 

[rule] | New York'. Front verso and back recto blank. Trimmed, unstained. No end papers. 

56

Publication: Published 12 September 2009. $15.00. Printed on demand. 

Printing: Printed and bound by Lightning Source, Inc., La Vergne, Tennessee. 

Locations: RJS, KK (2). 

Notes: In the colophons of the copies noted, there are two different dates (15 and 24 September 

2009); those with 15 September have the same code numbers beneath them. Thirty-seven of the 

ninety-two poems by Mencken appeared in Ventures into Verse (A 1). 

A 95.1.a Only edition, first printing (2010) 

*A 95 MENCKEN ON MENCKEN 

Title page: 'MENCKEN | [as white showing through gray disk within thin and thick gray 

circles] ON | MENCKEN | [as white showing through black bar] A NEW COLLECTION OF 

AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL WRITINGS | EDITED BY S. T. JOSHI | [LSUP device] | LOUISIANA 

STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS | BATON ROUGE' 

Copyright page: 'Published by Louisiana State University Press | Copyright © 2010 by 

Louisiana State University Press | All rights reserved | Manufactured in the United States of 

America | LSU Press Paperback Original | FIRST PRINTING | DESIGNER: Amanda McDonald 

Scallan | TYPEFACE: Whitman, text; BlairMdITC TT, display | PRINTER AND BINDER: 

Thomson-Shore, Inc. | [twelve lines of LC Cataloging-in-Publication Data] | The paper in this 

book meets the guidelines for permanence and durability of the Committee on | Production 

Guidelines for Book Longevity of the Council on Library Resources. [∞ within circle]' 

9" x 6": [i-iv] v-vi [vii-viii] 1-11 [12] 13-91 [92] 93-227 [228] 229-63 [264] = 272 pp. 


Contents: p. i: half title; p. ii: blank; p. iii: title; p. iv: copyright; pp. v-vi: 'CONTENTS'; p. vii: 

half title; p. viii: blank; pp. 1-11: 'INTRODUCTION'; p. 12: blank; pp. 13-14: 'A NOTE ON 

THIS EDITION'; pp. 15-230: text; pp. 231-38: 'NOTES'; pp. 239-54: GLOSSARY OF NAMES'; 

pp. 255-56: 'BIBLIOGRAPHY OF | ORIGINAL APPEARANCES'; pp. 257-63: 'INDEX'; p. 

264: blank. Blank page of text: 228. 

Text: ('PROLOGUE') "Henry Louis Mencken (1905)," ('MEMORIES OF A LONG LIFE') 

"Early Days,"* "Old Days,"* "Surdi Audiunt,"* "The Passing of 'The Hill',"* "West 

Baltimore,"* "Mr. Kipling,"* "Man of Means,"* "Tale of a Traveller,"* "An Evening on the 

House," "Baltimoriana,"* "Obsequies in the Grand Manner," "Love Story,"* "The Life of an 

Artist," "James Huneker,"* "The Life of Tone,"* ('AUTHOR AND JOURNALIST') "A Footnote 

on Journalism,"* "Reminiscences of the Herald" ("Reminiscence"), "On Breaking into Type," 

"Walter Abell and the Sun,"* "Twenty-five Years of the Evening Sun" ("Twenty-five Years"), "A 

Word About the Smart Set" (A Personal Word), "Foreword to A Bibliography of the Writings of 

H. L. Mencken," "Five Years of the American Mercury" ("Editorial" Dec. 1928), "Ten Years of 

the American Mercury" ("Ten Years"),* "Memoirs of an Editor," "The Worst Trade of Them 

All,"* "Why I Am Not a Book Collector," ('THINKER') "Off the Grand Banks," "Meditation at 

Vespers,"* "What is This Talk about Utopia?,"* "What I Believe," "On the Meaning of Life" 

(letter), "'Generally Political'," ('WORLD TRAVELLER') "At the Edge of the Spanish Main,"* 

"The Beeriad," "At Large in London,"* "Reminiscences of 1917" (Reminiscence"), "The Black 

Country,"* "West Indian Notes,"* "Our Footloose Correspondents,"* "Foreign Parts,"* "The 

Adriatic: East Side,"* ('EPILOGUE') "Henry Louis Mencken (1936)" (untitled). 

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'INTRODUCTION' (pp. 3-11), section titles (pp. 19-227), 'NOTES TO PAGES 82-113 [… 

125-155, … 180-223]' (pp. 233-37), 'GLOSSARY OF NAMES' (pp. 241-53), 'INDEX' (pp. 259- 

63); verso, 'CONTENTS' (p. vi), 'MENCKEN ON MENCKEN' (pp. 2-230), 'NOTES TO 

PAGES 21-82 [… 113-120, … 161-180, … 224-229]' (pp. 232-38), 'GLOSSARY OF NAMES' 

(pp. 240-54), 'BIBLIOGRAPHY OF ORIGINAL APPEARANCES' (p. 256), 'INDEX' (pp. 258- 

62). Wove paper. 

Binding: Heavy white paper wrappers. Front, recto: '[as white showing through orange field] A 

NEW COLLECTION OF AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL WRITINGS | [deep brown on white] MENCKEN | 

[superimposed on brown and white photo of HLM, as white showing through brownish purple 

disk within thin and thick orange circles] ON | [deep brown on white] MENCKEN | [as white 

showing through orange field] EDITED BY S. T. JOSHI'. Spine: '[as white showing through 

orange, reading down] MENCKEN [brown on white, reading down] MENCKEN [as white 

showing through brownish purple disk within thin and thick orange circles] ON [brown] 

MENCKEN [reading across on orange, as white showing through over brown LSU device] 

LSU'. Back, verso: '[as white showing through orange field] LITERARY STUDIES LSU 

PRESS PAPERBACK ORIGINAL | [on same field in brown, five-line blurb by RJS] | [brown on 

white, 38-line blurb in two columns followed by a photo of Joshi (credited to Alan Humphrey), a 

five-line bio, and, in black, 'Cover illustration: Courtesy H. L. Mencken Estate | COVER 

DESIGN BY AMANDA MCDONALD SCALLAN'; in right margin, reading up: '© 2010 

LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS'] | [on orange field to left of black bar code] [in 

brown] LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS | BATON ROUGE 70808 | [in black] 

WWW.LSU.EDU/LSUPRESS | PRINTED IN U. S. A.' Front verso and back recto blank. 

Trimmed, unstained. No end papers. 

Publication: Published March 2010. $24.95. 750 copies printed. 

Printing: See copyright page. 

Location: RJS 

Notes: All but "Henry Louis Mencken (1905) ," "A Word about the Smart Set," "Foreword to A 

Bibliography of the Writings of H. L. Mencken," "Why I Am Not a Book Collector," "On the 

Meaning of Life," "'Generally Political'," and "Henry Louis Mencken (1936)" are from an 

original magazine appearance, not any intervening book appearance. 

Review copy: Page proofs (11" x 8-1/2") bound by plastic rings in heavy paper covers, the front 

a larger version of the trade edition's front cover; lacks index, and copyright page lacks LC 

Cataloging-in-Publication Data. A promotional insert gives the publication date as March 2010; 

ISBN 978-0-8071-3592-1 (as in bar code). Location: RJS. 

1926 

AA 1 SELECTED PREJUDICES 

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.') … 

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[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). 3s.6d. 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). 

… "Bryan" ("In Memoriam: W. J. B.")… 

AA 3 

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 thirteenth 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 Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins 

University Press, [1996], as a 'Johns Hopkins Paperbacks edition' and Baltimore: JHUP, [2006], 

in 'The Buncombe Collection'. 

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 …. 

… Maroon cloth stamped in gilt .… 

AA 7.2 

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. 

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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. 

2006 

AA 14 A RELIGIOUS ORGY IN TENNESSEE 

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). Not registered at Copyright Office. 

Locations: RJS, CtU (rebound). 

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

1925). 

B 1 

The publisher's notice is on a blue slip tipped in to the blank page following the copyright page. 

Additional location: RJS. … MARYLAND.' (unsigned) … 

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

B 10 

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. Location: InU-Li. Not in Adler. 

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

B 17 

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… 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. 

… reprinted 1926, 1928, 1930. 

B 24A.1 First edition (1918) 

B 24 

B 24A THE PROFITS OF RELIGION (1918) 

[all within box comprised of double rows of small lines] THE PROFITS | OF RELIGION | An 

Essay in Economic | Interpretation | By UPTON SINCLAIR | [ornament] | Published by the 

Author, Pasadena, California 

On copyright page: 'Copyright, 1918'. (1) 7-7/16" x 5-1/8". Tan cloth blindstamped and 

stamped in gilt. (2) 7" x 4-13/16". White wrappers printed in black. (Copy noted in gray 

wrappers [7-1/4" x 4-7/8"] with index added and without the HLM quotation.) Location: RJS 

(2). John Ahouse, Upton Sinclair: A Descriptive, Annotated Bibliography (Los Angeles: Mercer 

& Aitchison, 1994), p. 37; not in Adler. 

Quotation from letter by Mencken praising Upton Sinclair's: A Monthly Magazine, p. [316]. 

B 24A.2 Second edition (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 

61

7-1/4" x 5-1/8". Self wrappers. Promotional offprint of pp. 92-109 from the book. Location: 

KK. Ahouse, p. 37; not in Adler. 

Same quotation from Mencken's letter 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 29 

Reprinted [Whitefish, Mont.: Kessinger, September 2007]. 

B 32 

… 'Publisher.' … corners. Numbered label with names of recipient and donor (H. D. Carsey, 

the managing editor) written in. Recipient's name stamped on cover of two copies noted.… 

Locations: MChB (no. 344), EPL (no. 932, personalized for HLM), KK (no. 420).… 

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.… 

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B 41A JOSEPH HERGESHEIMER (1921) 

[thick-thin rule] | JOSEPH HERGESHEIMER | THE MAN AND HIS BOOKS | [rule] | BY 

LLEWELLYN JONES | Literary Editor of The Chicago | Evening Post | [Borzoi device] | [rule] | 

New York ALFRED · A · KNOPF | Mcmxxi | [thin-thick rule] 

On copyright page: 'COPYRIGHT, 1920 … | … | Reprinted, December, 1921'. Third printing, 

with pp. 33-[34] tipped in. 7-1/4" x 4-7/8". Wrappers not seen. Location: RJS. Previously 

published (Smart Set, February 1921); not in Adler. 

Two sentences on San Cristobal de la Habana, p. 27 

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]) … not seen. Adapted from "Three American Immortals," sec. 2, and "The 

National Letters, secs. 6-7; S1.2. 

B 45A WHAT'S WRONG WITH THE AMERICAN MIND (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 | 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 

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SCHEFFAUER | [short rule] | By FERDINAND HANSEN | [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?) 

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[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). 

Delete R. West printing. See G 28. 

B 54A.1 First edition (1924?) 

B 53 

B 54A JOSEPH CONRAD (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. 


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. 

65

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] 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 (2), GHT (3), Harv (rebound). 

B 69 

Reprinted New York: Russell & Russell, 1963. 

Additional location: OKentU. 

B 70 

B 71 

66

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. 


B 72 

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


B 72A 25 (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. 


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. 


B 72B AN ENEMY SOWED COCKLE (1926) 

"AN ENEMY | SOWED COCKLE" | BY | THEODORE F. MACMANUS | AND | GEORGE 

BARRY O'TOOLE | THE DEVIN-ADAIR COMPANY | PUBLISHERS NEW YORK 

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On copyright page: 'COPYRIGHT, DECEMBER, 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'. First 

printing not seen. Location: KK. Reprinted April 1932. 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.1 Boni issue (1927) 

B 79B MONEY WRITES! (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. 

68

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. | [ornament] | PUBLISHED BY THE 

AUTHOR | STATION B | LONG BEACH, CALIFORNIA 

On copyright page: 'COPYRIGHT, 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. | [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.1 First edition (1927) 

[cover title] SARA | TEASDALE 

B 79C SARA TEASDALE (1927) 

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 79D 

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[all enclosed in a box] [ornament] | OIL! [enclosed in a rectangle with corners indented] | 

[ornament] | A Novel by | UPTON SINCLAIR | [Boni device] | NEW YORK | ALBERT & 

CHARLES BONI | 1927 

7-1/2" x 5. Brown cloth blindstamped and stamped in gilt. Location: KK. Previously 

published (F 7A; Baltimore Evening Sun 23 February 1924?); not in Adler. 

Quotations from letter on The Goose-Step and probably from "A Study of American Schools," a 

review of The Goslings ("I'd be recreant in my vows at ordination if I did not commend his 

volume …"), pp. [529], [530]. 

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. 

Delete entry. See A 36. 

B 87 

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. | 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 | 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 

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On copyright page: 'COPYRIGHT, 1929'. 7-3/8" x 5". Light tan wrappers 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. 

Delete entry. See B 45A. 

B 94 

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. | 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.1 First printing (1930) 

B 95B THE BLIGHT THAT FAILED (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: GHT, PPLT (reclad), 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) 

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[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. 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'. 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'), pp. vi-vii, and on front flap of dj. 

… 1941]); second printing January 1942.… 

B 96 

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: Harv (rebound), MCR (rebound), RJS, GHT. (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. 

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B 99A.1 American issue (1931) 

B 99A MAXIM GORKY AND HIS RUSSIA (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·ALFRED·A·KNOPF·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 | [ornament] | 1931 | MADELAINE MENDELSOHN 

| CHICAGO 

On copyright page: 'FIRST EDITION | LIMITED TO 1,000 COPIES | ALL RIGHTS 

RESERVED | COPY NO. [stamped number]'. 8-9/16" x 5-3/4". Orange cloth stamped in 

black. Locations: KK, MShM, RJS. All but reply to letter previously published (F 2A, 12D); 

Adler 285. 

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

B 99D.1 First edition (1931) 

B 99D LABOR LEADERS BETRAY MOONEY (1931) 

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[cover title] Labor Leaders | Betray | Tom Mooney | A MEMBER OF THE INTERNATIONAL 

MOLDERS UNION FOR 29 YEARS | [two captioned photos of Mooney] | "Tom Mooney is the 

victim of one of the | foulest conspiracies ever perpetrated in | this country, and it was done 

because he | was active in labor circles in California." | –United States Senator Burton K. 

Wheeler. [to right of union label] | FIRST EDITION PRICE 10c JANUARY, 1931 

8-1/2" x 5-3/4". Cream wrappers printed in black and shades of gray. Locations: KK, RJS. 

Previously published (Baltimore Sun, 17 June 1929); not in Adler. 

'H. L. MENCKEN ON "TOM MOONEY AND THE UNIONS"', pp. 46-48. 

B 99D.2 Second edition (1931) 

[cover title] TOM MOONEY | A MEMBER OF THE INTERNATIONAL MOLDERS UNION 

FOR 29 YEARS | [to right and above two captioned photos of Mooney] Betrayed | By | Labor | 

Leaders | [below and to left of the photos] "Tom Mooney is the victim of | one of the foulest 

conspiracies | ever perpetrated in this coun- | try, and it was done because | he was active in labor 

circles | in California." | –United States Senator Burton K. | Wheeler. | SECOND EDITION 

PRICE 10c MAY, 1931 | [union label] 200,000 COPIES IN CIRCULATION. 

8-1/2" x 5-3/4". Cream wrappers printed in black and shades of gray. Locations: KK, RJS. 

'H. L. Mencken on "Tom Mooney and the Unions"', pp. 61-62. 

B 100.1 

… signed 'H. L. MENCKEN' … Additional location: RJS. 

B 101 

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

B 102 

. . . TOBEY, Dr. P. H. . . . 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 LTD. | 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. 

Reprinted October 1932. 

B 105 

B 106A FORGOTTEN FRONTIERS (1932) 

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B 106A.1 American edition (1932) 

FORGOTTEN | FRONTIERS | DREISER AND THE LAND OF THE FREE | DOROTHY | 

DUDLEY | [ornament] | NEW YORK · 1932 | 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. 

Presumed third edition 

B 113.3 

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? 

75

'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). "Publisher tipped in Errata in the index about mis-indexed pages" 

(D).… 

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. 

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Additional location: InU-Li (rebound). 

B 121.2 

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 BY | [script] Nadya Olyanova | INTRODUCTION BY W. BERAN 

WOLFE | New York · COVICI · FRIEDE · Publishers 

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

Locations: GHT, CtW (rebound). 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: 'COPYRIGHT 1936'. 8-1/16" x 5-1/2". Red cloth 

stamped in black. Locations: GHT, RJS, MChB. 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 

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… [A-C device] | D. APPLETON-CENTURY COMPANY | NEW YORK · 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 … | … | 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 of 

books listed is 1937. 8-1/2" x 5-1/2". Folio. A later printing ('Order from UPTON SINCLAIR, 

424 Madison Avenue, New York City, N. Y.') adds books published in 1938. Location: KK. 

Previously published (F 35A; Baltimore Evening Sun, 23 February 1924? [not in B 79D]; 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) … 

… ninth (1945).… 

B 139 

B 139A HIGH-SCHOOL ANTHOLOGY (1938) 

[all within a double rule box inside another box] HIGH-SCHOOL | ANTHOLOGY | 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 

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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 and glued to 

spine. Locations: KK (2), CtU (rebound). Previously published (American Mercury, October 


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

of prepublication copies. 

B 139C MOTHER GOOSE IN THE OZARKS BROCHURE (1938) 

[head title] This Book Hit The Great American Funny Bone | For the first time the best and most 

sparkling of | American folk-lore is illustrated in a popular form | of art and offered at a price 

anyone can afford. | MOTHER GOOSE | IN THE | OZARKS | [illustration] | By Ray Wood | 

Drawings by Ed Hargis [text follows] 

9" x 5-1/2". Folio. Advertisement for the book (Raywood, Tex.: The Author, 1938). Location: 

KK. Not in Adler. 

Blurb by Mencken, probably from letter, p. [2]. 

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 

79

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 laidin 

letter dated 10 February 1939. Heavy paper wrappers printed in black. Locations: RJS, KK. 

Not in Adler 

Contribution by Mencken, p. 50. 

B 145.1 First edition (1939) 

B 145 SOUVENIR DU RESTAURANT ANTOINE (1939) 

[cover title, all within box] Souvenir | DU [gothic] | Restaurant Antoine | [illustration within box] 

| FONDÉ EN 1840 | Roy L. Alciatore, Proprietor | 713-717 St. Louis Street New 

Orleans, La. 

6-3/4" x 5-1/8". Self wrappers. RLA's inclusive dates of ownership 1930-1939 (p. 11). 

Location: RJS. Not in Adler. 

One-sentence remark to Mr. Alciatore, p. 20. 


See B 145 in the bibliography. 

B 145.3 Third 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. 

'COMMENT', pp. 113-14. 

B 147 

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. 

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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 | 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 148B HAMLET VOLUME II BROCHURE (1941) 

[cover title] CARREFOUR | announces the publication on | APRIL 22, 1941 | of | VOLUME II | 

of | [red] HAMLET | [black] by | HENRY MILLER | and | MICHAEL FRAENKEL | [eight-line 

blurb] | GOTHAM BOOK MART, 51 WEST 47t [sic] ST,, [sic] N. Y. C. 

8-1/8" x 5-1/2". Folio. Location: RJS. Not in Adler 

Quotation regarding Black Spring from letter, p. [3]. 

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 | 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) 

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AUTOBIOGRAFIA | DEGLI STATI UNITI | A cura di | MARIA NAPOLITANO MARTONE | 

GRUPPO EDITORIALE DOMUS | [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. Locations: GHT, NNC (rebound). 

Previously published (American Mercury, March 1939); not in Adler. 

'UN BILANCIO DEL | di H. L. MENCKEN | (1939)' (translation of "Bringing 

Roosevelt Up to Date"), pp. 43-49. 


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. 


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] | 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) 

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. 

82

Foreword by Lawrence E. Spivak. 7-5/8" x 5-1/2". White wrappers printed in green, black, and 

orange. Locations: Harv (2, rebound), RJS, GHT. Previously published (American Mercury, 

October 1925); not in Adler. 

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


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 

ENCYCLOPÆDIA | 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 [script] | 1946 

On copyright page: 'FIRST EDITION'. 8-3/8" x 5-5/8". Red cloth blindstamped front and back, 

stamped in gilt on spine. Locations: GHT, MNodS. Not in Adler. 

Letter to Gallico, p. 251. 

B 167B TEXAS (1946) 

TEXAS | By | Carl Willard Smith | HALDEMAN-JULIUS PUBLICATION | GIRARD, 

KANSAS 

83

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. 

Delete entry. See B 148B. 

B 168 

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, 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 | BY FRED C. 

KELLY | [ornament] | THE BOBBS-MERRILL COMPANY | Publishers | INDIANAPOLIS · 

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. 

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

B 171 

B 177 

No blindstamping. Additional location: MWelC. Previously published (Philadelphia Evening 

Bulletin, 30 July 1947); not in Adler. 

… 1954; April 1955.… 

B 179.1 

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 a 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 || [p. 

[iii]:] PATTERNS | IN | WRITING | THIRD EDITION | ROBERT B. DOREMUS | EDGAR W. 

LACY | GEORGE BUSH RODMAN | UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN 

84

On copyright page: 'COPYRIGHT © 1963'. 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 bluegreen 

cloth stamped in gilt on front. Locations: MBrHC, KK. 

'Scented Words', pp. 529-35. 

… 'First Collier Books Edition 1962'.… 

B 182A.1 English printing (1952) 

B 181.2 

B 182A HUGH WALPOLE A BIOGRAPHY (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 p. [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 

85

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. 

Review copy has slip laid in. 

B 184 

B 184A FRAGMENTS (1955) 

Carl Van Vechten | FRAGMENTS | from an unwritten autobiography | VOLUME I [the I centered 

with respect to prior word] | 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, MShM. 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 gray 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. 

86

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.1 First printing (1958) 

B 188A THE WRITER'S CRAFT (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 papercovered 

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 | A History of | Beer and Ale in the United States | 

[grain] | BY Stanley Baron | LITTLE, BROWN AND COMPANY · BOSTON · TORONTO 

On copyright page: 'COPYRIGHT © 1962 … | … | FIRST EDITION'. 9-3/16" x 6-1/16". 

Brown cloth blindstamped on front, stamped in gilt on spine. Locations: GHT, MChB. 

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 

87

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. | A SUBSIDIARY OF HOWARD W. 

SAMS & CO., INC. | Publishers · INDIANAPOLIS · NEW YORK [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 

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. 

Additional location: MNodS. 

… Black or dark brown cloth … 

Reprinted January 1970. 

Reprinted 1966. Additional location: RJS. 

B 196 

B 197.2 

B 198 

B 199 

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 

88

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 200B DON'T NEVER SAY CAIN'T (1965) 

DON'T | NEVER SAY CAIN'T | [elaborate squiggle] | Ethel Strainchamps | [elaborate squiggle] 

| 1965 | DOUBLEDAY & COMPANY, INC., GARDEN CITY, NEW YORK 

On copyright page: 'First Edition'. 8-1/8" x 5-3/8". Blue cloth stamped in orange and light blue 

on spine. Locations: KK, MWelC. 

Quotation from a letter, p. 35. 

B 200C A QUOTATION FROM MENCKEN UND NATHAN (1965) 

[cover title] [stylized borzoi encircled by two rows of stars] | A Quotation from | Mencken und 

Nathan | Concerning | Alfred A. Knopf | The Press of the Good Mountain | Rochester, New York 

6-7/8" x 4-1/2". Folio. Printed at the Rochester Institute of Technology under the direction of 

Alexander S. Lawson as a contribution to the portfolio A Keepsake for Alfred A. Knopf, Written 

and Printed by Various Hands, Celebrating His Fiftieth Year as a Book Publisher, foreword by 

Charles Antin (v. p., 1965); 150 copies. Location: KK. Previously published (The Dolphin, Fall 

1940). 

Comment on Knopf books, p. [2]. 

The | SMART SET … 

B 201 

B 202 

Additional Penguin printings: 1982, 1983, 1985. 

B 203.2 First English printing (1967) 

A Girl Like I | ANITA LOOS | [HH device] HAMISH HAMILTON · LONDON 

On copyright page: 'First published in Great Britain 1967 by Hamish Hamilton Ltd'. 8-1/2" x 5- 

5/16". Yellow cloth stamped in gilt on spine. Location: RJS. 

Quotation from letters, pp. 218-19. 


A Girl Like I | ANITA LOOS | BALLANTINE BOOKS · NEW YORK 

On copyright page: 'First Printing: December, 1975'. 7" x 4-1/4". Multicolored wrappers with 

illustration of nude. Location: RJS. 

Quotations from letters, p. 223. 

B 203A THE VIEW FROM THE SIXTIES (1966) 

89

The View from the Sixties | Memories of a Spent Life | by | GEORGE OPPENHEIMER | 

DAVID MCKAY COMPANY, INC. | 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. 

B203B THE IMPECUNIOUS AMATEUR LOOKS BACK (1966) 

HERBERT FAULKNER WEST | THE IMPECUNIOUS AMATEUR | LOOKS BACK | The 

Autobiography of | a Bookman | If a man does not keep pace with his companions, | perhaps it is 

because he hears a different drummer … | let him step to the music he hears. | Thoreau | 

WESTHOLM PUBLICATIONS | HANOVER, NEW HAMPSHIRE | 1966 

500 signed and numbered copies. 8-1/2" x 5-1/2". Maroon buckram stamped in gilt on spine. 

Location: KK. Extracts previously published (American Mercury, October 1928, uncredited). 

Quotations from "Shock Troops of Zion," "Americana," and letters to West, pp. 112-15. 

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 concave corners] CARL VAN VECHTEN | and the | IRREVERENT | 

DECADES | [illustration in light purple: Leda and the swan] | By Bruce Kellner | UNIVERSITY OF 

OKLAHOMA PRESS | NORMAN 

On copyright page: 'Copyright 1968 … | … | … First | edition.' 9" x 6". Maroon cloth 

blindstamped on front, stamped in red on spine. Locations: RJS, MChB. Review (American 

Mercury, November 1925) and two letters (105 and 111 in 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. 

90

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 rule] | The Story of Henry Sell, | An American 

Original | by JANET LECKIE | Hawthorn Books, Inc. PUBLISHERS New York 

On copyright page: 'Copyright © 1970 … | … | 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10'. 9" x 7-5/16". Beige papercovered 

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 | 

Dean, School of the Arts, Columbia University, New York | [rule] | LONDON AND BOSTON: 

ROUTLEDGE AND KEGAN PAUL 

On copyright age: '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, Apr. 1925). 

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

B 211B AMERICA AN ILLUSTRATED DIARY (1972) 

91

[all in gold] 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 and white fabricoid stamped in gilt and with illustrations printed in black and white. 

Locations: KK, NRU. 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, 

92

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'.… 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.1 First issue (1979) 

B 217A AMERICAN MANIFEST DESTINY (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.) 

93

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 (1979) 

1929 | [sixteen rules] | America Before the Crash | by Warren Sloat | MACMILLAN 

PUBLISHING CO., INC. New York 

On copyright page: 'First Printing1979'. 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). 

94

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 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 | POLYTECHNIC | 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) 

95

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; Amerian 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 223C THE ROTARIAN READER (1986) 

THE ROTARIAN READER | A 75-YEAR ANTHOLOGY 

On copyright page: 'Copyright © 1986 by Rotary International | … | For information, address 

THE ROTARIAN, 1600 Ridge Avenue, Evanston, IL 60201. | … | First Edition'. 9-1/4" x 6- 

15/16". Gray cloth-covered boards with black cloth spine stamped in gilt. Locations: KK, 

TxCM. Previously published (The Rotarian, May 1933). 

Contribution to a symposium on the question 'Shall we abolish school 'frills'? | Yes!', pp. 73-75. 

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 | 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- 

16, 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. Uncorrected review copy in wraps. Five printings by February 

1987. Reprinted New York: Random House, [September 1987], Vintage Book Edition; New 

96

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. 

B223F THE PRATT LIBRARY ALBUM (1986) 

THE PRATT LIBRARY | ALBUM | BALTIMORE | NEIGHBORHOODS | IN FOCUS | [EPFL 

seal] | by Jacques Kelly | Published by | THE ENOCH PRATT FREE LIBRARY | Baltimore, 

Maryland 

On copyright page: 'First published 1986'. 8-1/2" x 11". Slick coral-colored paper printed in 

black and white. Locations: KK, CtU. Previously published (Baltimore Evening Sun, 2 

February 1925?). 

Quotations probably from "The Pratt Library," p. xv 

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. 

Delete entry. See B 218. 

B 224 

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 

97

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 224C WINDFALL AND OTHER STORIES (1988) 

WINDFALL | and Other Stories | [two oil wells] | Winifred M. Sanford | Foreword by Emerett 

Sanford Miles | Afterword by Lou Halsell Rodenberger | SOUTHERN METHODIST 

UNIVERSITY PRESS 

On copyright page: 'Copyright © 1988 by the Estate of Winifred M. Sanford'. 9" x 6". Light 

brown paper-covered boards with flecks, red cloth spine printed in white. Locations: KK, MA. 

Quotations from letters, pp. xii-xiv. 

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 Abandonment 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) 

98

[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 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 | 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 Huntington Wright 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 ® | 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) 

99

[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 papercovered 

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: | [black] Alfred A. and Blanche W. Knopf, Publishers | An 

Exhibition Catalog | Compiled by Cathy Henderson | Edited by Dave Oliphant | Harry Ransom 

Humanities Research Center · 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] 

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· 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 and 1926, p. 227. 

B 241 CHAOS, CREATIVITY, AND CULTURE (1998) 

100

A SAMPLING OF CHICAGO IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY | CHAOS, CREATIVITY, | 

AND CULTURE | KENAN HEISE | [as white showing through black] GIBBS · 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. Locations: NjP, GHT. Reviews previously published (American 

Mercury, March 1927, July 1929). 

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 ® · 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. 

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 ® · Volume Two Hundred Twenty-Two | H. L. Mencken | A 

Documentary Volume | Edited by | Richard J. Schrader | Boston College | A Bruccoli Clark 


101

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] | AUTUMN 2000 | SIX | The 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 


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) 

102

Lillian Gish | HER LEGEND, HER LIFE | Charles Affron | A LISA DREW BOOK | 

SCRIBNER | NEW YORK LONDON TORONTO SYDNEY SINGAPORE 

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 · 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 

wrappers. 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. 

103

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 ÁNTONIA (2003) 

MY ÁNTONIA | 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 · G.K. CHESTERTON | T.S. ELIOT · 

WILLIAM F. BUCKLEY | JERRY FALLWELL · ANNIE DILLARD | C.S. LEWIS | [in second 

box, as white showing through black] S. T. JOSHI | [beneath boxes] [device] Prometheus Books 

| 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). 

B 282 THE ROBERT A. WILSON COLLECTION (2006) 

104

[ornamental blue border] The | Robert A. Wilson Collection | of | H. L. Mencken | [blue rule] | 

The Sheridan Libraries | The Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore, Maryland | 2006 

On copyright page: 'an edition of | 1500 unnumbered copies.' Compiled by Cynthia Requardt, 

foreword by Winston Tabb, introduction by RJS, essays by Richard Frary and Wilson. 9-7/8" x 

6-7/8". White wrappers printed in blue and two shades of green. Location: RJS. 

Numerous inscriptions quoted passim; facsimiles of B48B and the TS of Mencken's obituary of 

Paul Patterson, pp. [63], [107]. 

B 285 THE NEW NEGRO: READINGS (2007) 

[rule] | Readings on Race, | [rule] | Representation, and | THE NEW African American Culture, 

| [rule] | NEGRO 1892-1938 | [rule] | EDITED BY | Henry Louis Gates, Jr. | and Gene Andrew 

Jarrett | PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS | PRINCETON AND OXFORD 

On copyright page: 'Copyright © 2007 … | … | 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1'. (1) 10" x 7". White 

cardboard covers with multicolor printing. (2) Hardcovers not seen. Location: KK. Previously 

published (American Mercury, February 1926). 

"The Aframerican: New Style," pp. 227-28. 

B 287 CHARLATAN (2008) 

Charlatan | America's Most Dangerous Huckster, | the Man Who Pursued Him, | and the Age of 

Flimflam | Pope Brock | [Crown device] | CROWN PUBLISHERS | NEW YORK 

On copyright page: 'Copyright © 2008 by Pope Brock | … | 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 | First Edition'. 

9-1/8" x 6". Black paper-covered boards stamped in red on spine. Locations: KK, NSpOC. 

Quotations from letters and a signed photograph, pp. 79, 96, 291n92. 

*B 295 JIM TULLY (2011) 

Jim | Tully | American Writer, | Irish Rover, | Hollywood Brawler | Paul J. Bauer and Mark 

Dawidziak | [as white showing through black] Foreword by Ken Burns | The Kent State 

University Press • Kent, Ohio 

On copyright page: '© 2011 … | … | 15 14 13 12 11 5 4 3 2 1'. 9-3/16" x 6". Maroon cloth 

stamped in gilt on spine. Location: RJS. 

Quotations from letters, passim. 

C 1A 

"Joe and Bobs" (poem), Leslie's Weekly 90.2325 (31 March 1900): 250. Locations: KK, RJS. 

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 13 

105

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 14A 

"From the Diary of a Diner-Out" (signed "John Edgar Lancey"), Smart Set 67.2 (February 1922): 

23-24. Locations: RJS; EPL scrapbook (S. T. Joshi). 

Delete entry. See note in Adler 112. 

C 18 

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. 

… New York Times … 

C 19 

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. 

106

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. Locations: GHT, RJS. 

C 22K 

Letter, Commonwealth College Fortnightly 11.7 (1 April 1935): 2-3. Partially reprinted in B 

125B. Location: ArU. 

C 23G 

"Modern Morals by Henry L. Mencken (As Told to B. K. Roberts)," Helios 1.1 (November- 

December 1935): 15. Location: KK. 

C 24G 

Letter, The Saturday Review of Literature, 16.3 (15 May 1937): 9. Location: KK. 

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. 

See G 16A. 

C 26 

C 27F 

Message, The Kapustkan: An American Journal of Dynamic Democracy 3.9 (December 1942): 

[29]. Location: KK. 

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: NjR. 

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. 

107

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. 

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. 


Notes: From the "Free Lance" column of 22 January 1914; the broadside omits the last few 

items. Not in Adler. 

Binding: … linked] | HOLIDAY … 


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 3 

108

Additional location: EPL (unstapled). 

E 14 

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 


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. 

First edition (?) 

E 22.1 

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– 


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 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 

109

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. 


Notes: West 197; not in Adler. 

E 34A BEER (1933) 

Cover title: '"BEER" | H L MENCKEN - WILLIAM LUNDELL | OCTOBER 18 1933' 


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 NETWORK WHAT IS AHEAD | A TALK BY MR H L MENCKEN 

FROM STATION BAL BALTIMORE | ( ) ( ) | 7:15 - 7:30 PM APRIL 27 1934 

FRIDAY' 



Six separate sheets. 

110

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. 


Notes: Text of NBC radio address, 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' 



Five separate sheets. 

Contents: pp. 1-5: text; p. 5: 'LOWTHER | lh | 3-18-35'. 



Binding: None. All edges trimmed. Stapled at top left. 


Notes: Text of NBC radio address, 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 | INTERVIEW WITH 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.' 


11" x 8-1/2": [1] 2-5 [6] 7-15 [16 ('INSERT A')] 17-24 = 48 pp., mimeographed and paginated 

on rectos only. 

111

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'. 



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'.… 

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]); S1.10. 

E 59 

Binding: Printing on cover repeats title page followed by 'PENSACOLA: 1980'. 

Additional locations: RJS, KK. 

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) 

112

[cover title] [within box] THE DISGRACE OF | DEMOCRACY | [ornament] | OPEN LETTER 

TO | PRESIDENT WOODROW WILSON | BY | KELLY MILLER | HOWARD UNIVERSITY | 

WASHINGTON, D. C. | [below box] 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.1 First edition (1918) 

F 2A OSCAR WILDE (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 back 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] | 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) 

113

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 


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 or orange. Locations: GHT (dj), MBU. 

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 5B THREE SOLDIERS (1921) 

THREE | SOLDIERS | [crenel in black with author's name showing through in white:] JOHN | 

DOS PASSOS | [black] NEW YORK | GEORGE H.DORAN [sic] COMPANY 

On copyright page: 'COPYRIGHT, 1921'. First (RJS) or later (KK) state ("signing" corrected to 

"singing" on p. 213). 7-1/2" x 5-1/16". Black cloth stamped in orange. Locations: KK (dj), 

MChB, RJS (dj). Not in Adler. 

Blurb on front of later-state dust jacket. "It is unquestionably the best war story yet produced in 

America.…" 

F 6A GOAT ALLEY (1922) 

GOAT ALLEY | 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. 

114

Blurb on front flap of dust jacket. "Mr. Culbertson has come closer to the negro, as I know him 

here in Baltimore. . . ." 

F 6B UP STREAM (1922) 

UP STREAM | AN AMERICAN CHRONICLE | BY | LUDWIG LEWISOHN | [B&L device] | 

BONI AND LIVERIGHT | PUBLISHERS : NEW YORK 

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. 

Delete entry. See F 4H. 

F 7 

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, 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 | 

[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 7C CAPITOL HILL (1923) 

CAPITOL HILL | A Novel of Washington Life | by | Harvey Fergusson | [Borzoi device in oval] 

| New York | Alfred · A · Knopf | 1923 

On copyright page: 'Published March, 1923'. 7-7/16" x 5-1/16". Dark blue cloth stamped in 

black, green, and cream. Locations: KK (dj), NhU. Not in Adler. 

Blurb for The Blood of the Conquerors on p. [ii] (cf. F 5); lengthy blurb for Capitol Hill on back 


115

F 8 

[script] The | [gray] CREATIVE LIFE | LUDWIG LEWISOHN | [gray B&L device] | BONI 

AND LIVERIGHT | [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 | 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 | 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, RJS (dj). 

Previously published (Smart Set, March 1923); not in Adler. 

Blurb from review of Deadlines ("Adventures Among Books") on back of dust jacket. 

Delete entry. See F 8A. 

F 11 

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 


Quotation from "Fiction Good and Bad" on rear flap of dust jacket. 

116

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 | 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 


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 I. | [ornament] | 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, RJS. 

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]. 

Delete entry. See F 4G. 

F 13 

F 15 

Delete entry. See F 12B. Change cross-references in F 22 and F 25. 

F 16 

On copyright page: 'Eighth 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; or 

same but light blue and cream paper-covered boards, dark blue ribbed cloth spine. …with a copy 

of the eighth printing. Locations: KK (dj), RJS (dj).… 

… Previously … 

F 17.1 

F 17.2 

Fourteenth printing (1926) … By WILL DURANT, Ph.D.… 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) 

117

MICROBE HUNTERS | by | PAUL DE 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 (dj). 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 · A · 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] 

118

| "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. Locations: 

GHT (dj), MWalB. The same blurb is on the unstated "second and revised edition" of the same 

year, with 'IMPOSTURES' replacing 'FALLACIES' in the title. 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] | NEW YORK The Viking Press 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 SIEGFRIED | 

[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 | DAUGHTER by Nan Britton | [wavy rule] | Published by | 

ELIZABETH ANN | GUILD | INC. | [ornament] | New York, U.S.A., 1927 [EAG device within 

triangle over wavy rule] 

119

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 : 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, 1928'. 8" x 5-1/4". Light green cloth stamped in pink. 

Locations: GHT (dj), MBU (2, rebound). Previously published (American Mercury, September 


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 JESSICA NELSON 

NORTH | WITH SKETCH PORTRAIT OF THE AUTHOR BY | G. W. RUSSELL (Æ) | [HM 

device] | BOSTON AND NEW YORK | HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY | [gothic] The 

Riverside Press Cambridge | 1928 

120

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 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 · A · 

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 (Vanity Fair, 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 the dust jacket. 

F 29D DODSWORTH (1929) 

121

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." 

Delete entry. See F 27E. 

F 32 

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. Locations: RJS (dj), NGH. 

Previously published (American Mercury, December 1929); not in Adler. 

Review of the book reprinted 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-MERRILL COMPANY | PUBLISHERS · INDIANAPOLIS 

On copyright page: '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 

122

On copyright page: '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 box] 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 


Blurb on front flap of the set's dust jackets from "Escape and Return," different from that on F 

29D. 

F 33F MAGGIE (1931) 

MAGGIE | together with | George's Mother and The Blue Hotel | STEPHEN CRANE | WITH 

AN INTRODUCTION BY HENRY HAZLITT | [two concentric frames comprised of orange 

ornaments in the middle of which are the initials 'S. | C.' in black script] | [Borzoi device between 

two orange ornaments] | ALFRED · A · KNOPF | New York Mcmxxxi 

7-1/2" x 5". Orange cloth stamped in silver, blindstamped on back. Locations: KK (dj), RPB. 

Previously published (Dial, January 1924); not in Adler. 

Blurb from "Stephen Crane," a review of Thomas Beer's Stephen Crane: A Study in American 

Letters, on rear of dust jacket. 

F 34A NEW POEMS (1932) 

NEW POEMS | Eighty Songs at Eighty | THE FIFTH BOOK OF VERSE | BY | 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 

123

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 · 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.1 First printing (1932) 

F 34C MAN'S ROUGH ROAD (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 

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 34D STORM (1932) 

STORM | BY | PETER NEAGOE | [Obelisk device] | THE OBELISK PRESS | 338, RUE 

SAINT-HONORÉ | PARIS 

An enlarged version of the first edition and published in the same year, 1932 (DLB, vol. 4). 7- 

1/4" x 5-1/4". Light green heavy cardboard printed in black. Location: KK. 

Comment on back cover. "Some time ago … I saw a really remarkable story by Mr. Neagoe.…" 

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), 

124

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 of dust jacket regarding American Outpost. "Contains some of the best 

writing you have done in recent years." 

Delete entry. See F 34C. 

F 36 

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 


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 | 1936 

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 

125

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 HARRY FLOOD BYRD | AND A PREFACE BY | 

DOUGLAS SOUTHALL FREEMAN | LONGMANS, GREEN AND CO. | NEW YORK · 

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]. 

Delete entry. See F 33E. 

F 41 

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, Orthodoxy | THE BRUCE PUBLISHING COMPANY 

| MILWAUKEE 

On copyright page: 'COPYRIGHT, 1942'. 7-13/16" x 5-1/8". Gray cloth stamped in dark green. 

Locations: KK (dj), RJS (dj), MWH. 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 …." 

126

F 43 

[script] The Case of .… Additional location: RJS (dj). 


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 · 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. 

Tentatively delete entry. See F 45A. 

F 46 

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) 

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BRANN AND THE | ICONOCLAST | By Charles Carver | INTRODUCTION BY ROY 

BEDICHEK | [drawing of a pistol, a cane, and a copy of The Iconoclast] | AUSTIN · 

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS PRESS 

On copyright page: '© 1957'. 8-3/8" x 5-5/16". 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 49 A COLLECTOR OF CHARACTERS (1962) 

A | COLLECTOR | OF | CHARACTERS | REMINISCENCES | OF | THEODORE | SPICER- 

SIMON 

On copyright page: 'Copyright 1962 | by | University of Miami Press'. 8-1/2" x 10-7/8". Light 

brown cloth stamped in gilt on spine. Locations: KK (dj), MChB. 

Quotation from letter regarding a portrait medallion on rear of dust jacket. 

F 50 EXPERIMENT IN AUTOBIOGRAPHY (1962) 

[row of four-leaf clovers] | EXPERIMENT | IN | AUTOBIOGRAPHY | [rule] | DISCOVERIES 

AND CONCLUSIONS | OF A VERY ORDINARY BRAIN | (SINCE 1866) | [rule] | BY | H. G. 

WELLS | WITH DRAWINGS BY THE AUTHOR | [row of four-leaf clovers] | [Little, Brown 

device] | LITTLE, BROWN AND COMPANY · BOSTON · TORONTO 

On copyright page: '© RENEWED 1962'. 9-1/8" x 6-1/16". Gray paper-covered boards 

blindstamped on front, red cloth spine stamped in gilt. Location: KK (dj). Previously published 

(The Nation, 14 November 1934). 

Quotation from "Wells Nearing Three Score" on back of dust jacket. 

F 51 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 

128

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 (presumed from two ISBNs and prices) 

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 1 

The essay is reprinted in Gardens, Houses and People 32.2 (February 1957): 12 (not in Adler). 



Delete entry. See E 33A. 

G 4 

G 13 

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. 

Delete entry. See H 5A. 

Delete entry. See H 8A. 

G 20 

G 21 

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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 

… PRÉFACE … nrf … S. P. … Eight printings noted. Additional location: RJS. 

Spanish translation (2003) 

H 1.4 

En defensa de las mujeres | H. L. Mencken | Traducción de Miguel Martínez-Lage | y Eugenia 

Vásquez Nacarino | LA FABRICA EDITORIAL [first two words in box] 

On copyright page: '© De esta edición: 2003, La Fabrica | Alameda, 9, 28014 Madrid'. On p. 

[191]: 'Este libro se terminó de imprimir | 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). 

French translation (2004) 

H 3A "ON BEING AN AMERICAN" (1922) 

Henry Louis Mencken | Comment | peut-on être | américain? | Traduit de l'anglais [États-Unis] | 

par Laurent Bury 

On copyright page: '© Éditions Saint-Simon, | pour la traduction française, 2004. | 16, rue Saint- 

Marc, 75002 Paris'. On p. [85]: 'Cet ouvrage a été imprimé … | … | en septembre 2004'. Preface 

by Bernard Géniès. 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. 


… Anerkennung… 

H 4 

H 5 

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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). 

Italian translation (1967) 

H 5A TREATISE ON THE GODS (A 40) 

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. Locations: GHT, RJS. 

H 8.1 

… Colección | LIBERTAD Y CAMBIO … Additional locations: GHT, RJS. 

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. 

German translation (1968) 

H 8A "DEATH: A PHILOSOPHICAL DISCUSSION" (A 61) 

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. Locations: GHT, RJS. 

Dutch translation (1998) 

H 12.2 

Er moet toch iemand | gelukkig zijn | Een briefwisseling tussen | John Fante | en H. L. Mencken | 

Thomas Rap · Amsterdam 

"Sombody 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. 7-1/8" 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. Locations: KK (dj), RJS 

(dj). 

Italian translation (2001) 

H 12.3 

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John Fante | STO SULLA RIVA | DELL'ACQUA E SOGNO | LETTERE A MENCKEN | (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. 

Portuguese translation (1995) 

H 12A THE DIARY OF H. L. MENCKEN (A 80) 

O DIÁRIO DE | H. L. MENCKEN | Edição | Charles A. Fecher | Tradução | Bentto de Lima | 

[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 14 

… BOKTRYCKERI 1931'.… Copy noted in blue wrappers printed in dark blue. Additional 

location: KK. … "Den amerikanska traditionen" … 

H 18 AUSGEWÄHLTE WERKE (1999-2002) 

[Vol. 1:] H. L. Mencken | Kulturkritische Schriften | 1918-1926 | Herausgegeben von | Helmut 

Winter | MANUSCRIPTUM || [Vol. 2:] H. L. Mencken | Autobiographisches | 1930-1948 | Aus dem 

Amerikanischen von | Bernd Rullkötter | Herausgegeben von | Helmut Winter | MANUSCRIPTUM || 

[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 

Vol. 1, p. [1]: 'H. L. Mencken | AUSGEWÄHLTE WERKE | BAND I'; copyright page: 'ISBN 3- 

933497-47-7 | © Manuscriptum Verlagsbuchhandlung | Thomas Hoof KG · 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 · Waltrop und Leipzig 2000 | Gestaltung: Kohl & 

Müllejans, Düren'. Vol. 3, p. [1]: 'H. L. Mencken | AUSGEWÄHLTE WERKE | BAND III'; 

copyright page: 'ISBN 3-933497-54-X | © Manuscriptum Verlagsbuchhandlung | Thomas Hoof 

KG · 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 ins 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, Pennsylvania" (ibid.); "Tagebuch 1930-1948" (a large portion of 

The Diary); "Deutschland 1938. Ein Reisebericht" ("Germany 1938, a Travel Report," ThirtyfiveYears 

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 Erinnerung," "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 

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Movies"), (from Berliner Tageblatt, 4 August 1922) "Sittlichkeitskreuzzüge in Amerika" 

("Moral Endeavor"?), (from A Mencken Chrestomathy) "Abrham 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 

weibliche 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

F 60. Unlocated articles and reviews: B 79D (BES), 134B (BES), 169B, 223F (BES), C 22D, 

F 6A, 23E (BES). 

Index 

Barclay, McKee, delete A 82.1.a. Beggars of Life (Tully), add F 15. "Bryan," delete AA 3. 

Covarrubias, Miguel, delete. "Discussion of Twain," delete. Dodsworth, F 41. "Editorial" (Oct. 

1925), A 34. "In Memoriam: W. J. B.," add AA 3. "Mark Twain," A 67. The three entries 

beginning "Men" are out of place. "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 Mencken bibliography, 

will continue to be augmented privately, but additions are no longer entered here. Current total 

of items: 557. 

Send questions or comments to richard.schrader@bc.edu. 

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