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

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 …
Review copy: Trade printing (binding A) with laid-in slip (5-7/16" x 4"): 'REVIEW COPY from
| ARLINGTON HOUSE · PUBLISHERS [the 'A' is blue and enclosed in a blue double-rule box]
| 165 HUGUENOT STREET · NEW ROCHELLE, NEW YORK 10801 | (212) 597-5050 / (914)
636-3850 | Publication Date: 10/1/75 [date written in blue] | [a blue 'A' enclosed in a blue
double-rule box] | Please send two copies of your review to | Maureen McCaffrey, Publicity
Director'. Location: KK.
A 72.1.a
Review copy: Trade printing with laid-in slips: (1, 5-3/8" x 4-1/4") '[under The New Republic
Book Company / Dutton letterhead, specific information typed in] Title: MENCKEN'S LAST
CAMPAIGN: | H.L. Mencken on the 1948 Campaign | Author: Edited with an Introduction | by
Joseph C. Goulden | Publication date: July 13, 1976 | Price: $8.95 | (Kindly send us two copies of
any review | you publish or broadcast of this book.) | Distributed by E. P. Dutton'; (2, 12-1/8" x
8-1/2") '[same letterhead as previous] FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE | FROM: Ralph Sagalyn |
(202) 331-1250 | [red] Mencken's | Last Campaign | [black] Edited with an Introduction by |
Joseph C. Goulden | [red, eight-line quotation from Goulden] | [review from Publishers Weekly
in two columns]'. Location: KK.
A 73.1.c
Third printing?: Same title page as A 73.1.a-b. Hardbound printing, evidently for a book club:
thinner paper (1-11/16" thick as opposed to 1-3/4" for first two printings), same page size, and
dust jacket corresponds to the wrappers of A 73.1.b. The boards and endpapers are darker than
in the first trade printing. The records of Random House, successor to Dial, say only that the
title was included in the Book-of-the-Month Club in December 1976. Freak copy: covers upside
down. Locations: GHT (dj), KK (2 in dj).
A 73.1.d
Fourth printing?: Same title page as A 73.1.a-c. On copyright page: 'Second printing 1977'.
Thickness 2". Copies noted with spine stamped all in gilt, and in gilt and orange-gilt. Location:
KK (2).
A 74.1.a
Dust jacket B: Same but with sticker on front flap (1-3/16" x 1/2"): '[red] ASSOC. UNIV.
PRESS | NET | [black] £24.50'.
Additional locations: GHT (dj A), KK (dj B).
A 75.1.b
Second printing: [University, Ala.:] Univ. of Alabama, [2003]. No new date on copyright page;
date from Amazon.com and Global BIP. Paperback. Locations: GHT, KK.
A 76.1.a
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