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

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.
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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).
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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.
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On copyright page: 'seventh printing, January 1967'. Location: KK.
A 59.1.k
On copyright page: 'Eighth Printing, January 1975'. Location: KK.
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Fourteenth printing: New York: Knopf, 1985. On copyright page: 'Tenth Printing, September
1985'. Location: KK.
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Fifteenth printing: New York: Knopf, 1990. On copyright page: 'Eleventh Printing, March
1990'. Location: KK.
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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.
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On copyright page: 'NINTH PRINTING, JANUARY 1976'. Location: KK.
A 61.1.l
On copyright page: 'ELEVENTH PRINTING, JANUARY 1981'. Location: KK.
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… 8" x 5-1/8" x 1-1/4". … and blue; price $7.95. Locations: GHT, KK.
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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.
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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).
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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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