ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS TO HL MENCKEN - Bad Request ...

Sixth edition, first printing (2007)
Same as A 16.5.a except:
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'
Colophon: '[to left of bar code] Printed in the United States | [code with 'LV', 'B', and 'P']'
9" x 6": [1-6] 7-136 [137-40] = 140 pp.
Perfect bound.
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.
Notes: Published February 2008 (Global BIP).
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
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