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

A 53.1.r
On copyright page: 'Sixteenth printing, June 1989'. Location: KK.
A 53.1.s
On copyright page: 'Seventeenth printing, May 1991'. Location: KK.
A 53.1.t
Twentieth printing: New York: Knopf, 1997. On copyright page: 'Eighteenth printing, August
1997'. Location: KK.
A 53.1.u
Twenty-first printing: New York: Knopf, 2001. On copyright page: 'Nineteenth printing, June
2001'. Location: KK.
*A 54.1.a
Additional location: GHT (dj).
Add to Notes: The original appearances of the chapters are listed by S. T. Joshi in Menckeniana
165.16.
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
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ., [2006]. On copyright page: 'The Buncombe Collection, 2006 |
9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1'. Location: KK.
A 54.2.a.
Second edition, only printing (1943)
Notes: Published September 1943, 50,000 copies. EPL copy signed and dated 1943 by
Mencken. Adler 17; cf. John Jamieson, Books for the Army: The Army Library Service in the
Second World War (New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 1950).
A 56.1.d.ii
Illustration of title page omits the RKP label.
Title page: A label, attached by its left side, covers all or part of the date along with the rest of
the imprint, which is '1948 | ALFRED A. KNOPF | NEW YORK | [Borzoi device]'. Two
varieties of label: (1) 1-1/16" x 4", 'LONDON | ROUTLEDGE AND KEGAN PAUL LTD. |
BROADWAY HOUSE, 68-74 CARTER LANE, E.C. 4'; (2) 1-1/16" x 4-1/2", no period after
'LTD'.
Additional locations: KK, RJS, GHT.
Location: KK.
Wove paper; thickness 1-7/16".
A 56.1.f
A 56.1.h
A 56.1.j.ii
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