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Prejudices, first series / H. L. Mencken.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection AC9 M5223 919p 1929
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956
- Series:
- Borzoi pocket books
- The Borzoi pocket books
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature.
- Penn Provenance:
- Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956 (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 254 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 18 cm.
- Edition:
- [New pocket book edition].
- Other Title:
- Prejudices. First series
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1929.
- Contents:
- Criticism of criticism of criticism
- The late Mr. Wells
- Arnold Bennett
- The dean
- Professor Veblen
- The new poetry movement
- The Heir of Mark Twain
- Hermann Sudermann
- George Ade
- The Butte Bashkirtseff
- Six members of the Institute. The boudoir Balzac; A stranger on Parnassus; A merchant of mush; The last of the Victorians; A bad novelist; A Broadway Brandes
- The genealogy of etiquette
- The American magazine
- The Ulster Polonius
- An unheeded law-giver
- The blushful mystery. Sex hygiene; Art and sex; A loss to romance; Sex on the stage
- George Jean Nathan
- Portrait of an immortal soul
- Jack London
- Among the avatars
- Three American immortals. Aristotolean obsequies; Edgar Allan Poe; Memorial service.
- Notes:
- "The Borzoi Pocket Books. A popular edition of some of the best books of our own and other ages. The end papes and binding have been designed by W. A. Dwiggins, the title page by Elmer Adler."
- With half-title.
- "Published September, 1919. Reprinted twelve times. New Pocket Book Edition, April, 1929."
- Publisher's advertisements: [1] p. at end.
- Price from dustjacket.
- Light brown boards with decoration on front cover and Borzoi emblem on lower right hand corner of back cover. Spine decorated and lettered in black. Pale green patterned endpapers.
- Local Notes:
- Culture Class Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- Culture Class Collection copy has autograph of H. L. Mencken.
- OCLC:
- 5063345
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