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Ventures into verse : being various ballads, ballades, rondeaux, triolets, songs, quatrains, odes and roundels. All rescued from the potter's field of old files and here given decent burial (peace to their ashes) / by Henry Louis Mencken ; with illustrations & other things by Charles S. Gordon & John Siegel.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection AC9 M5223 903v 1960 facsim. copy 2
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 2 unnumbered pages, 46 pages, 4 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
- Place of Publication:
- [Baltimore] : [Smith's Book Store], [1960]
- Notes:
- The author's first book in print.
- Reprint of the edition published in New York by Marshall, Beek & Gordon in 1903.
- "250 copies of this facsimile edition of Ventures into Verse have been printed for Smith's Book Store, Baltimore 1, Maryland."
- Brown paper wrapper with white label lettered and ruled in red on front.
- Adler, Betty. H.L.M. : The Mencken Bibliography. Baltimore : Johns Hopkins Press, 1961. p. 5.
- Local Notes:
- Culture Class Collection copy 1 is no. 28.
- Culture Class Collection copy 2 is no. 40.
- OCLC:
- 3494536
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