Boston: John W. Luce & Co., 1913. First edition, and first American edition. Two plays, with preface by H.L. Mencken. They were translated from the French by Frederick Eisemann. With no dust jacket, in very good to near fine condition. Item #46668 More
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Boston: John W. Luce & Co., 1905. First edition. "... the object of this modest book is to ... exhibit the Shaw plays as dramas rather than as transcendental treatises ... to describe their plots, characters, and general plans simply and calmly ...." -- Mencken's preface. Signature of Louise Groff..... Item #33076 More
New York: Knopf, 1928. First edition. A representative collection of "salient specimens of...anti-Mencken invective--mainly single sentences or phrases, torn from their incandescent context." During 1926 alone more than 500 separate editorials and a number of whole pamphlets were published in the U.S. on the sayings and doings of Mencken, four-fifths..... Item #33787 More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1956. First edition. His posthumously published 1918 "Notebooks" -- his notions scrawled down as they come -- discovered just prior to his death. Two volumes -- Schrader A62-A and A62-B; each with different Herbert Bayer dust jacket design. Schrader's "A" jacket has concentric-circles design and..... Item #30484 More
New York: Knopf, (1927). First edition. Number 22 of 140 SIGNED numbered copies. Cloth spine, printed spine label, marbled paper boards, spare spine label tipped in at rear. Spine slightly tanned, board edges scuffed, otherwise very good in publisher's original slipcase, which is beginning to split at open edges, is..... Item #52523 More
New York: Knopf, (1922). First edition. Slight discoloration to few areas of boards and spine lettering very slightly dulled, otherwise near fine in about very good dust jacket with light soiling and rubbing, a few small tears and tiny holes, and half-inch chip to top edge rear panel (not affecting..... Item #54356 More
New York: Knopf, 1948. First edition. After revising and enlarging his monumental work, THE AMERICAN LANGUAGE, four times, Mencken decided a separate volume was necessary to accommodate new material --and then another, being this, the second supplement. Fine in near fine, price-clipped dust jacket a little tanned on spine. Item #33495 More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1961. First edition. Selected and annotated by the Fogue, with a personal note from Hamilton Owens. Near fine in dust jacket. Item #46986 More
New York: Random House, (1994). First edition. "... the first truly comprehensive portrait of this most original of American originals" (from the jacket flap). INSCRIBED on half-title page "For ... A Mencken Fan - with best wishes - Fred Hobson/ 25 June 1994." A massive book, running 650 pages including..... Item #33188 More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1920. First edition. Very good or better with underlining to first 7 pages. Item #33095 More
Boston: Luce and Company, 1908. First edition in first state binding. Very good or better with a nice gift inscription on front endpaper, cover edges lightly rubbed and a few small tears on spine ends. Item #33079 More
(Hockessin: Holly Press, 1980). First edition. SIGNED BY WINGATE. Bathtub Hoax frontispiece drawing by Nancy Sawin of Mencken sitting by a statue of Millard Fillmore in a tub. Includes "A Neglected Anniversary," the December 28 1917 article in the New York Evening Mail which was the origin of Mencken's bathtub..... Item #71622 More
New York: Knopf, 1917. First edition. Entertaining auto-"biographies" of the two men. INSCRIBED BY MENCKEN "to George W. Myers Jr." Thin, 5 x 7.5" mauve paperwraps printed in black on covers only. Tiny chips at one corner and base of spine, overall fading most noticeably at spine otherwise about very..... Item #50159 More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1941. First edition. History of the first hundred years of The Baltimore Sun and its offshoots, The Sunday Sun and The Evening Sun. Various periods in the papers' history are covered by Mencken, Gerald W. Johnson, Frank R. Kent, and Hamilton Owens. SIGNED BY ALL..... Item #51613 More
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1937. First edition. History of the first hundred years of The Baltimore Sun and its offshoots, The Sunday Sun and The Evening Sun. Various periods in the papers' history are covered by Mencken, Gerald W. Johnson, Frank R. Kent, and Hamilton Owens but Mencken "acted..... Item #52232 More
New York: Knopf, 1929. First edition. August 1929 issue of the monthly review edited by Mencken. Good to about very good in heavy plastic cover protector. Item #35154 More
Baltimore: Enoch Pratt Free Library, 1962-2002. First edition of each. Stapled paperwraps. "Each issue contains one hitherto unpublished item written by H. L. Mencken, original contributions by Menckenthusiasts, and Bibliographic Check List of current Mencken items to form a supplement to the published Mencken Bibliography" (Adler, inside front cover No..... Item #56096 More
New York: John Lane, 1914. First edition. Second binding, stamped in gilt and black (versus gilt and blue). Illustrated with eight full-page plates by Thomas Hart Benton -- his first illustrations to appear in a book. Preliminaries show foxing and few spots of foxing to plate margins otherwise very good..... Item #71624 More
Philadelphia: Hanley & Belfus, (1990). First edition. Mencken's brief foray into pediatrics resulted from Theodore Dreiser's request for articles for The Delineator magazine. Those articles were collected in the 1910 book, WHAT YOU OUT TO KNOW ABOUT YOUR BABY, "by" Leonard Keene Hirshberg, M.D., whose only contributions, according to Markel..... Item #71621 More