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Published by Anchor, 1991
ISBN 10: 0385262086ISBN 13: 9780385262088
Seller: Basement Seller 101, Cincinnati, OH, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Signed and inscribed by the editor.
13658 RODGERS, MARION ELIZABETH (EDITOR) - MENCKEN AND SARA - A LIFE IN LETTERS - THE PRIVATE CORRESPONDENCE OF H.L. MENCKEN AND SARA HAARDT - 1987 FIRST EDITION - 551 PP - HARD COVER WITH DUST JACKET - GOOD CONDITION (BS-505).
Published by Anchor, 1991
ISBN 10: 0385262086ISBN 13: 9780385262088
Seller: Enterprise Books, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Thick Trade PB. Condition: Fine+. First Edition; First Printing. Book Very Fine, square, tight, clean. NO notes, no underlining, no markings of ANY kind. Slight edge toning only defect. ; Thick 8vo; 707 pages.
Published by Library of America, New York, 2010
ISBN 10: 1598530747ISBN 13: 9781598530742
Seller: Mnemosyne, New Haven, CT, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. CLASSIC: ICONOCLASTIC: BRILLIANT: WITTY: ENTERTAINING: ENLIGHTENING: NEW LOA First Edition hardcover (Orig. 2010) Second Printing, NEW mylar-protected gloss-laminated LOA jacket w/ sharp NEW edges & corners showing orig. $35.00 pub. price bottom-right inside-front flyleaf, NEW sand-tan rayon-weave Brillianta fabric-over-boards cover w/ sharp NEW edges & corners, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exterior MARRED Only by small red dot at base of spine, NEW Smyth-sewn binding w/ tight signatures & bronze silk ribbon page-marker bound from top & w/ siilk-finish white-tan-checked linen bands at spine-caps, IMPECCABLE white-on-rich-tan LOA-patterned front & back card-stock end-papers, PRISTINE interior handsomely printed in 10-pt. Linotron Galliard on SUPERB silk-finish acid-free lightweight-opaque archival paper * Illustrated with photographs from Mencken's archives * 5.12" x 8.12" x 1.26", 0.66 kg, xii+610 (622) pp * CONTENTS: Contents (ix) First Series (1) Second Series (151) Third Series (299) Appendix (491) Chronology (519) Note on the Texts (531) Notes (534) Index (592) * ABOUT THE BOOK: H.L. Mencken was unquestionably the most provocative & influential journalist & cultural critic in 20th-century America. The 6 volumes of Prejudices, published between 1919 & 1927, were both a slashing attack on what Mencken saw as American provincialism & hypocrisy & a resounding defense of the writers & thinkers he thought of as harbingers of a new frankness & maturity. Laced w/ savage humor & delighting in verbal play, Mencken's prose remains a one-of-a-kind roller-coaster ride through a staggering range of themes: literature & journalism, politics & religion, sex & marriage, food & drink. In this and its companion volume, LOA presents all 6 series of Prejudices in their original form. The first 3 series include some of his most famous writing, including "The Sahara of the Bozart," an attack on Southern culture so unbridled as to earn him widespread criticism from politicians & the press; "The National Letters," a lively & free-spoken survey of writing in America; "The Dry Millennium," an analysis of the multiple absurdities of Prohibition; "Exeunt Omnes," an unblinking & deromanticized contemplation of death; & "On Being an American," a humorous celebration of the political & cultural panorama that he saw as "incomparably the greatest show on earth." Here are his harsh summing-up of Theodore Roosevelt's career ("he didn't believe in democracy; he believed simply in government") & his sympathetic portraits of literary friends like James Huneker & George Jean Nathan. Mencken's account of the original reception of Prejudices, from his memoir My Life as Editor & Author, is included as an appendix. Edmund Wilson wrote: "Mencken's mind . . . has all the courage in the world in a country where courage is rare." That courage may sometimes have been coupled w/ an inflexible stubbornness that led him into positions hard to defend. But to succeeding generations of writers & readers, Mencken was the figure who had risked charges of heresy & sedition & almost single-handedly brought America into a new cultural era. To read him is to be plunged into an era whose culture wars were easily as ferocious as those of our own day, in the company of a critic of vast curiosity & vivacious frankness. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: HENRY LOUIS MENCKEN (1880-1956), the "Sage of Baltimore," was the most provocative & influential journalist & cultural critic in 20th-century America. * THE LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an award-winning, nonprofit program dedicated to publishing America's best & most significant writing in handsome, enduring volumes, featuring authoritative texts. Hailed as "the most important book-publishing project in the nation's history" (Newsweek), this acclaimed series is restoring America's literary heritage in "the finest-looking, longest-lasting edition ever made" (New Republic). * SHIPPING: FREE domestic shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL.
Published by Library of America, New York, 2014
ISBN 10: 1598533088ISBN 13: 9781598533088
Seller: Mnemosyne, New Haven, CT, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. Illustrated with photographs from Mencken's archives (illustrator). 1st Edition. CLASSIC: ICONOCLASTIC: BRILLIANT: WITTY: ENTERTAINING: ENLIGHTENING: NEW LOA First Edition hardcover (Orig. 2014) First Printing, NEW mylar-protected gloss-laminated LOA jacket w/ sharp NEW edges & corners showing orig. $35.00 pub. price bottom-right inside-front flyleaf, NEW sand-tan rayon-weave Brillianta fabric-over-boards cover w/ sharp NEW edges & corners, IMMACULATE smooth-cut text-block exterior MARRED Only by a small red dot at heel of base, NEW Smyth-sewn binding w/ tight signatures & two bronze silk ribbon page-markers bound from top & w/ siilk-finish white-tan-checked linen bands at spine-caps, IMPECCABLE white-on-rich-tan LOA-patterned front & back card-stock end-papers, PRISTINE interior handsomely printed in 10-pt. Linotron Galliard on SUPERB silk-finish acid-free Ecusta-Nyalite paper: Illustrated with photographs from Mencken's archives * 5.12" x 8.12" x 1.48", 0.78 kg, viii+872 (880) pp. * CONTENTS: The Days Trilogy, Expanded Edition (1-872): Happy Days 1880-1892 (1-202), Newspaper Days 1899-1906 (203-410), Heathen Days (411-596); Days Revisited: Unpublished Commentary-Notes on Heathen Days (597-796); Chronology (797-811), Notes on the Texts (812-815), Notes on the Illustrations (816-819), Notes (820-858), Index (859-872) * ABOUT THE BOOK: A major literary event: Mencken's dazzling autobiography, w/ 200 pages of his own never-before-published commentary & photos: In 1936, at the age of 55, H.L. Mencken published a reminiscence about his boyhood in The New Yorker, beginning a long & magnificent adventure in autobiography by America's greatest journalist. Mencken went on to gather his childhood recollections in "Happy Days" (1940), a richly detailed, poignant account of growing up in Baltimore. A critical & popular success, the book surprised many w/ its glimpses of a less curmudgeonly Mencken, & there soon followed the absorbing sequels "Newspaper Days" (1941), charting his rise at the Baltimore Herald from cub reporter to editor, & "Heathen Days" (1943), recounting his varied excursions as journalist & public figure, including his coverage of the Scopes trial in 1925. But unknown to the legions of "Days" books admirers, Mencken continued to add to them after publication, annotating & expanding ea. volume in typescripts sealed to the public for 25 years after his death. Until now, most of this material (often more frank & unvarnished than the original "Days" books) has never been published. Containing nearly 200 pages of previously unseen writing & illustrated w/ photographs from Mencken's archives, many taken by Mencken himself, this expanded & definitive edition of the "Days" trilogy is a cause for celebration. ABOUT THE EDITOR: MARION ELIZABETH RODGERS is the author of "Mencken: The American Iconoclast" and editor of "Mencken and Sara: A Life in Letters" & "The Impossible H. L. Mencken". She also edited The Library of America's edition of Mencken's Prejudices. She lives in Washington, D.C. * LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation's literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America's best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries. * SHIPPING: MNEMOSYNE carefully wraps, labels & custom-packages this fine book for FREE domestic shipment via USPS MEDIA MAIL or USPS PRIORITY MAIL for a nominal additional fee & via efficient USPS FIRST CLASS MAIL to all international shipments at our posted rates.
Hardcover. Condition: As New. Bound in publisher's brown cloth. Hardcover and dust jacket. Good binding and cover. Minor shelf wear. Corner bumped. Clean, unmarked pages.
Published by Library of America, 2010
ISBN 10: 1598530755ISBN 13: 9781598530759
Seller: Bookworks, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Book
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No dust jacket as issued. A fine copy with a tan cloth binding and a fine slipcase. Still in the original unopened shrink wrap with the publisher's notes. Subscribers edition with no dust jacket as issued.
Published by First edition, published by McGraw-Hill Book Co., New York, 1987, 1987
ISBN 10: 0070415056ISBN 13: 9780070415058
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Very good to fine with very good to fine dust jacket. Book and dust jacket are very lightly bumped at spine tips and top corners. 551 pages with index and a few text illustrations plus a twelve page section of illustrations.
Published by Anchor Books / Doubleday & Company, Inc., New York London Toronto Sydney Auckland, 1991
ISBN 10: 0385262086ISBN 13: 9780385262088
Seller: Theoria Books, Andover, MA, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 707 pp., lx. '1' in number line; ' $15.00 ' price on rear cover. Following Gore Vidal's Foreword and Introductory material, Contents divided into 28 Sections: [I] "Reflections on Journalism"; [II] "On Being An American"; [III] "Triumph of Democracy"; [IV] "The American Scene"; [V] "The Home of the Crab"; [VI] "A Panorama of Patriots"; [VII] "Meditations on the Fair [Sex]"; [VIII] "The Dark [Negro] American"; [IX] "On Babbitts"; [X] "National Conventions" [sections by year: 1904, 1920, 1924, 1928, 1932, 1936, 1940, 1948] ; [XI] "Lame Ducks"; [XII] "The Men Who Rule Us"; [XIII] "How Legends are Made"; [XIV] "Thoughts on Eating"; [XV] "Music"; [XVI] "The American Language"; [XVII] "The National Letters"; [XVIII] "On Literary Gents" [MarkTwain, Ambrose Bierce, Edgar Allen Poe, James Huneker, Joseph Conrad, Sherwood Anderson, Sinclair Lewis, Theodore Dreiser]; [XIX] "Notice to Neglected Geniuses"; [XX] "The Book Trade"; [XXI] "Critics and Their Ways"; [XXII] "A Glance at Pedagogics"; [XXIII] "The Scopes Trial"; [XXIV] "The Believing Mind"; [XXV] "Reflections on War"; [XXVI] "Across the Border"; [XXVII] "Below the Rio Grande"; [XXVIII] "From the Note-Book of an American"; Acknowledgments, pp. 684-685; Notes to the Introduction, pp. 686-690; Index, pp. 691-707. Red and silver borders on front cover, around front cover centerpiece of political caricature by David Levine of Mencken in white shirt, tie, and striped (suspendered) trousers, with sardonic smile, smoking a large cigar. Soft diagonal creases at bottom right ffep/half-title page and vignette page; light age-toning to edges and pages (NO impact on text), else unqualifiedly Fine: Tight binding (NO creases, despite thick spine); sharp corners (NO bumps); NO remainder marks; NO previous owner names. Clean text. Solid copy, the way to read this Classic Journalist, Editor of The American Mercury (1924), Political Satirist, Humorist, erstwhile "Critic of the Oligarchy" [present day Mercury, online magazine]. Splendid gift, regardless of recipient's political dissuasion.
Published by Penguin Random House, 2010
ISBN 10: 1598530747ISBN 13: 9781598530742
Seller: INDOO, Avenel, NJ, U.S.A.
Book
Condition: As New. Unread copy in mint condition.
Published by Penguin Random House, 2010
ISBN 10: 1598530747ISBN 13: 9781598530742
Seller: INDOO, Avenel, NJ, U.S.A.
Book
Condition: New. Brand New.
Published by Library of America, 2010
ISBN 10: 1598530747ISBN 13: 9781598530742
Seller: Dorothy Meyer - Bookseller, Batavia, IL, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
hardcover. Condition: fine. Dust Jacket Condition: slipcase fine. Stated first edition. NOT an ex library book. Book with light brown binding. Clean pages, ribbon marker. Slipcase has no splits. Brochure laid in.
Published by Library of America, 2014
ISBN 10: 1598533088ISBN 13: 9781598533088
Seller: Shelley and Son Books (IOBA), Hendersonville, NC, U.S.A.
Association Member: IOBA
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hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. First Printing. Hardcover. Bound in light brown cloth with gilt lettering on the spine in a dark brown label. Mencken?s dazzling autobiography, with 200 pages of his own never-before-published commentary and photos. In 1936, at the age of fifty-five, H. L. Mencken published a reminiscence about his boyhood in The New Yorker, beginning a long and magnificent adventure in autobiography by America?s greatest journalist. Mencken went on to gather his childhood recollections in Happy Days (1940), a richly detailed, poignant account of growing up in Baltimore. A critical and popular success, the book surprised many with its glimpses of a less curmudgeonly Mencken, and there soon followed the absorbing sequels Newspaper Days (1941), charting his rise at the Baltimore Herald from cub reporter to editor, and Heathen Days (1943), recounting his varied excursions as journalist and public figure, including his coverage of the Scopes trial in 1925. But unknown to the legions of Days books? admirers, Mencken continued to add to them after publication, annotating and expanding each volume in typescripts sealed to the public for twenty-five years after his death. Until now, most of this material?often more frank and unvarnished than the original Days books?has never been published. Containing nearly 200 pages of previously unseen writing, and illustrated with photographs from Mencken?s archives, many taken by Mencken himself, this expanded and definitive edition of the Days trilogy is a cause for celebration. 872pp. Black dustjacket with B&W picture of Mencken, red, white and blue stripe, and and white text.CONDITION: Covers are unmarked. Pages are crisp and clean. Binding and text block are tight. Full refund if not satisfied.
Published by Library of America 2014-09-25, New York, N.Y., 2014
ISBN 10: 1598533088ISBN 13: 9781598533088
Seller: Blackwell's, London, United Kingdom
Book
hardback. Condition: New. Language: ENG.
Published by McGraw-Hill, 1987
ISBN 10: 0070415056ISBN 13: 9780070415058
Book First Edition Signed
HARDCOVER. Dust Jacket Condition: cover wear, Very Good-. 1st edition. 551pp, octavo. Inscribed by editor M. Rodgers with signed letter from Rogers laid in. cover wear, tight binding, clean throughout, Very Good-.
Published by Library of America, 2014
ISBN 10: 1598533088ISBN 13: 9781598533088
Seller: Revaluation Books, Exeter, United Kingdom
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Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. expanded edition. 750 pages. 7.50x4.50x1.50 inches. In Stock.
Published by Library of America, 2010
ISBN 10: 1598530755ISBN 13: 9781598530759
Seller: Revaluation Books, Exeter, United Kingdom
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Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 656 pages. 8.25x5.25x1.25 inches. In Stock.
Published by Library of America, 2010
Seller: Bookworks, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. First Printing (stated), 2010, 2 Volume Set. Volume 1: "Prejudices First, Second, and Third Series"; Volume 2: "Prejudices Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Series". Fine copies bound in tan cloth with black, glossy dust jackets. The contents are clean and unmarked. Enclosed in a fine, color-illustrated box. A beautiful set. International shipping may require added postage charges.
Published by Library of America, 2010
ISBN 10: 1598530747ISBN 13: 9781598530742
Seller: Revaluation Books, Exeter, United Kingdom
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Hardcover. Condition: Brand New. 624 pages. 8.00x5.25x1.50 inches. In Stock.