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A book of burlesques / by H. L. Mencken [Opus 12] author of "A Little Book in C Major," etc.
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LIBRA - Athenaeum of Philadelphia Circulating PS3525.E43 B6 1916
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Kislak Center for Special Collections - Dreiser Library PS3525.E43 B6 1916
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Burlesques.
- Penn Provenance:
- Rascoe, Burton, 1892-1957 (donor) (inscription) (Culture Class Collection copy)
- Nathan, George Jean, 1882-1958 (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 253 pages, 3 unnumbered pages, 1 unnumbered folded chart : music ; 20 cm
- Edition:
- [First edition].
- Manufacture:
- New York, U.S.A. : Press of J. J. Little & Ives Company.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : John Lane Company, MCMXVI [1916]
- Contents:
- Death: a philosophical discussio
- From the programme of a concert
- The wedding: a stage direction
- The visionary
- The artist: a drama without words
- Seeing the world
- From the memoirs of the devil
- Litanies for the overlooked
- Asepsis: a deduction in scherzo form
- Tales of the moral and pathological
- Epithalamium
- Portraits of Americans
- Panoramas of people
- The new soule
- A genealogical chart of the uplift.
- Notes:
- With half-title.
- Reprinted in part from various periodicals.
- Maroon cloth binding, lettered and decorated in gilt.
- Culture Class Collection copy has [4] p. leaflet "The Smart Set Suggestion to Our Visitors" inscribed "Dear Burton: Please read #25 carefully. G.J.N." laid in.
- Local Notes:
- Culture Class Collection copy inscribed "Lewis - for -- Burton May 1917, Chicago".
- OCLC:
- 2177998
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