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A book of burlesques. / By H. L. Mencken.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection AC9 M5223 916b 1920
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Burlesques.
- Physical Description:
- 233 pages, 3 unnumbered pages : music. ; 20 cm
- Edition:
- [Second edition].
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Published at the Borzoi by Alfred A. Knopf, [1920]
- Contents:
- Death: a philosophical discussion
- 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 a scherzo form
- Tales of the moral and pathological
- The jazz Webster
- The old subject
- Panoramas of people
- Homeopathics
- Vers libre.
- Notes:
- With half-title.
- "Copyright, 1916, 1920, by Alfred A. Knopf."
- "The present edition includes some epigrams from "A Little Book in C Major," now out of print. To make room for them several of the smaller sketches in the first edition have been omitted. Nearly the whole contents of the book appeared originally in 'The Smart Set'."
- Dark blue cloth binding with Mencken arms stamped in blind on front cover, lettered in gilt on spine and Borzoi emblem stamped in lower right hand corner of back cover.
- OCLC:
- 1228322
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