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Inventory of Arthur Gutman Collection of Menckeniana HLM-Editor and Introductions Author, Pub Special Call Title Last Author, First Publisher Date Edition Note Number University of Maryland Libraries, Special Collections--Inventory of Arthur Gutman Collection of Menckeniana HLM-Editor and Introductions Author, Pub Special Call Title Last Author, First Publisher Date Edition Note Number Inscribed to Mrs. J. Kennard Baily and signed; Dust Jacket; Edited and introduction Southern Album Haardt Sara Doubleday, Doran & Co. 1936 First by Mencken The World Publishing Introduction An American Tragedy Dreiser Theodore Co. 1948 by Mencken Dust Jacket; introduction The American Democrat Cooper James Fenimore Alfred A. Knopf 1931 by Mencken Blanchette and the Preface by Escape Brieux John W. Luce & Co. 1913 Mencken Free Lance Books, Ventures in Common edited by Sense Howe E.W. Alfred A. Knopf 1919 HLM Free Lance Books, edited by We Moderns Muir Edwin Alfred A. Knopf 1920 HLM 488 of 600; From the American editorial by Mercury 1927 Alfred A. Knopf 1928 First HLM Dust Jacket Mck stacks The Charlatanry of the Limited to PN169. Learned Mencken Johann Burkhard Alfred A. Knopf 1937 First 1475 copies; M52 Dust Jacket; Limited to 1475 copies; First Kegan Paul Mck stacks The Charlatanry of the British publisher's PN169. Learned Mencken Johann Burkhard Alfred A. Knopf 1937 Edition slip M52 MCK The Bobbs-Merrill Foreword by Stacks The Lost Art of Profanity Johnson Burges Company 1948 First HLM GT3080.J6 Primary Works Author, Pub Special Title Author, Last First Publisher Date Edition Note Insribed to John E. Simmes A New Dictionary of Quotations Mencken H.L. (Ed.) Alfred A Knopf 1942 First and signed Luce and The Philosophy of Nietzsche Mencken Henry L. Company 1908 First The Days of H.L. Mencken Mencken H.L. Alfred A Knopf 1947 First translated Leipzig/B.G. by Heinrich Die Amerikanische Sprache Mencken H.L. Teubner/Berlin 1927 Spies A New Dictionary of Quotations Mencken H.L. (Ed.) Alfred A Knopf 1942 First Dust Jacket Signed by all authors; The Sunpapers of Baltimore Johnson Gerald W. Alfred A Knopf 1937 First Dust Jacket Kent Frank R. Mencken H.L. Hamiliton Owens The American Language Mencken H.L. Alfred A Knopf 1919 First 997 of 1500 Signed; 189 of 235;Slip Cover; Notes on Democracy Mencken H.L. Alfred A Knopf 1926 First unopened Signed; 95 of 140; Glassine wrapper; slip cover; Prejudices sixth series Mencken H.L. Alfred A Knopf 1927 First unopened Signed; 31 of 110; glassine wrapper; slip cover; Prejudices fifth series Mencken H.L. Alfred A Knopf 1926 First unopened Signed; 30 of 100; Prejudices fourth series Mencken H.L. Alfred A Knopf 1924 First unopened H.L. The American Signed; 203 Three Years Mencken (postscript) Mercury 1927 of 600 Caedmon Recording Speaking Mencken H.L. Publishers 1957 (Vinyl) 227 of 200; The American Mercury Mencken H.L. (Ed.) Alfred A Knopf 1924 First unopened George Nathan Jean (Ed.) The American Language Mencken H.L. Alfred A Knopf 1921 Second Dust Jacket British The American Language Mencken H.L. Jonathan Cape 1922 First Edition Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., British The American Language Mencken H.L. LTD 1936 Fourth Edition The American Language Mencken H.L. Alfred A Knopf 1923 Third The American Language Mencken H.L. Alfred A Knopf 1936 Fourth Dust Jacket Supplement One The American Language Mencken H.L. Alfred A Knopf 1945 First Dust Jacket Dust Jacket; Signed; Supplement Two The signed American Language Mencken H.L. Alfred A Knopf 1948 First errata slip British The American Language Mencken H.L. Jonathan Cape 1922 First Edition Reprint Ventures into Verse Mencken H.L. Smith's 1903 Edition 192 of 250 John W. Luce The Artist Mencken H.L. & Company 1912 Signed Philip Damn! A Book of Calumny Mencken H.L. Goodman Co. 1918 Inscribed to Robert L. Weinberg and signed A Little Book in C Major Mencken H.L. John Lane Co. 1916 by author John W. Luce The Gist of Nietzsche Mencken H.L. & Company 1910 Making a President Mencken H.L. Alfred A Knopf 1932 First Dust Jacket Inscribed to George M. Stimson and signed Making a President Mencken H.L. Alfred A Knopf 1932 First by author What You Ought to Know Butterick ghostwritten About Your Baby Mencken H.L. (Ed.) Publishing Co. 1910 by Mencken Leonard Hirschberg Keene Steen Fordomme Mencken H.L. Hasselbalch 1943 German Inscribed to John Semmes and signed Heathen Days 1890-1936 Mencken H.L. Alfred A Knopf 1943 First by author Letter- tipped; Dust Newspaper Days 1899-1906 Mencken H.L. Alfred A Knopf 1941 First Jacket Letter- tipped; Dust Jacket; Insribed to J. Kennard Bailey and signed by Happy Days 1890-1892 Mencken H.L. Alfred A Knopf 1940 First author Council on Armed Books in Services Heathen Days 1890-1936 Mencken H.L. Wartime 1943 Edition Council on Armed Books in Services Happy Days 1890-1892 Mencken H.L. Wartime 1940 Edition Christmas Story Mencken H.L. Alfred A Knopf 1946 First Dust Jacket Crawford Bill (illust) Signed; Christmas Story Mencken H.L. Alfred A Knopf 1946 First Dust Jacket Crawford Bill (illust) The Days of H.L. Mencken Mencken H.L. Dorset Press 1989 Dust Jacket 187 of 375; Treatise on the Gods Mencken H.L. Alfred A Knopf 1930 First signed; Minority Report H.L. Mencken's Notebooks Mencken H.L. Alfred A Knopf 1956 First Dust Jacket A Mencken Chrestomanthy Mencken H.L. Alfred A Knopf 1949 First Dust Jacket Dust Jacket; a few opened Americana 1925 Mencken H.L. (Ed.) Alfred A Knopf 1925 First pages Treatise on Right and Wrong Mencken H.L. Alfred A Knopf 1934 First Martin Hopkinson & First British Americana 1925 Mencken H.L. (Ed.) Co. 1925 Edition Hungarian In Defense Anok Vedel Meben Mencken H.L. Vilagkonyvtar ? Edition of Women Georg Muller German In Defense Berteidigung der Frau Mencken H.L. Munden 1923 Edition of Women unopened; slip cover; signed; 180 of 230; Menckeniana A Expurgated Schimpflexikon Mencken H.L. (Ed.) Alfred A Knopf 1928 Edition Mencken H.L. Alfred A Knopf 1948 Second Dust Jacket Most likely sixth series French (based on Prejuges Mencken H.L. Boivin & Cie 1929 edition pub date Treatise on the Gods Mencken H.L. Alfred A Knopf 1930 First? Treatise on the Gods Mencken H.L. Alfred A Knopf 1930 First signed Fifth A Book of Prefaces Mencken H.L. Alfred A Knopf 1924 printing The American Credo Mencken H.L. Alfred A Knopf 1920 First George Nathan Jean Europe After 8:15 Mencken H.L. John Lane Co. 1914 First George Nathan Jean Willard Wright Huntington Prejudices First series Mencken H.L. Alfred A Knopf 1919 First Dust Jacket; Inscribed To Elsie Palmer Willamson and signed; Note to Mencken Seventh from printing of Williamson Prejudices Second series Mencken H.L Alfred A Knopf 1924 First Edition tipped in Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., First British Happy Days 1890-1892 Mencken H.L. LTD 1940 Edition Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co., First British Newspaper Days 1899-1906 Mencken H.L. LTD 1942 Edition Dust Jacket Dust Jacket; Inscribed to Dr. Willaim Seventh Barford II Treatise on the Gods Mencken H.L. Alfred A Knopf 1930 printing and signed; Dust Jacket; Fourth wartime Happy Days 1880-1892 Mencken H.L. Alfred A Knopf 1945 printing edition A Book of Prefaces Mencken H.L. Alfred A Knopf 1917 First? heavily annotated by Michael A Book of Prefaces Mencken H.L. Alfred A Knopf 1917 First Strange A Book of Burlesques Mencken H.L. John Lane Co. 1916 First Fifth A Book of Burlesques Mencken H.L. Alfred A Knopf 1924 printing Dust Jacket; Prejudices Sixth Series Mencken H.L. Alfred A Knopf 1927 First errata slip Prejudices Fifth Series Mencken H.L. Alfred A Knopf 1926 First Garden City A Book of Prefaces Mencken H.L. Publishing Co. 1924 Fifth Prejudices Third Series Mencken H.L. Alfred A Knopf 1922 First Third Prejudices Fourth series Mencken H.L. Alfred A Knopf 1924 printing First trade Blue Ribbon Tenth Treatise on the Gods Mencken H.L. Books 1933 printing Dust Jacket Menckeniana A Expurgated Schimpflexikon Mencken H.L. Alfred A Knopf 1928 Edition British Prejudices fifth series Mencken H.L. Jonathan Cape Edition Dust Jacket British Prejudices fourth series Mencken H.L. Jonathan Cape 1925 Edition Dust Jacket British Notes on Democracy Mencken H.L. Jonathan Cape 1927 Edition Dust Jacket British Prejudices Third Series Mencken H.L. Jonathan Cape 1923 Edition British Prejudices First series Mencken H.L. Jonathan Cape 1921 Edition Martin Hopkinson & British Americana 1926 Mencken H.L. Co. 1926 Edition Notes on Democracy Mencken H.L. Alfred A Knopf 1926 First Newspaper Days 1899-1906 Mencken H.L. Alfred A Knopf 1968 Sixth Heathen Days 1890-1936 Mencken H.L. Alfred A Knopf 1968 Eighth Happy Days 1880-1892 Mencken H.L. Alfred A Knopf 1968 Seventh Selected Prejudices Mencken H.L. Alfred A Knopf 1927 First Dust Jacket Heliogabalus: A Buffoonery in Three Acts Mencken H.L. Alfred A Knopf Dust Jacket; George 1681 of Nathan Jean Alfred A Knopf 1920 First 2000 Americana 1926 Mencken H.L. Alfred A Knopf 1926 First Martin Hopkinson & British Americana 1925 Mencken H.L. Co. 1925 Edition British A Book of Prefaces Mencken H.L. Jonathan Cape 1922 Edition Prejudices sixth series Mencken H.L. Jonathan Cape British In Defence of Women Mencken H.L. Jonathan Cape 1923 Edition British Prejudices Second series Mencken H.L. Jonathan Cape 1921 Edition 24 of 80; signed; unopened; inimachi Japanese vellum; expurgated Menckeniana A edition; slip Schimpflexikon Mencken H.L. Alfred A Knopf 1928 First cover inscribed to Dr. William Garden City B. Barford In Defense of Women Mencken H.L.
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