The American credo : a contribution toward the interpretation of the national mind / by George Jean Nathan and H. L. Mencken.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nathan, George Jean, 1882-1958.

Contributor:

Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

National characteristics, American.

Common fallacies.

Tobacco use--United States.

Tobacco use.

United States.

Penn Provenance:

Williams, Estelle, 1886-1954 (bookplate) (inscription) (Culture Class Collection copy 2)

Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956 (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copy 2)

Physical Description:

191 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 20 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1920.

Notes:

With half-title.

"Copyright, 1920, by Alfred A. Knopf."

Article 148, "That nicotine keeps the teeth in a sound condition": p. 131. Several other articles refer to tobacco.

Preface by Mencken (p. 7-103).

Supplement is unfolded leaf containing paragraphs 499-526, possibly censored due to obscenity, and possibly published in 1921 instead of 1920. An identical supplement is part of the Dreiser collection (N169.1/N37325 1921).

Black cloth boards stamped in gilt on front. Back cover has blind-stamped Borzoi emblem in lower right hand corner.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy 2 has bookplate of Estelle Williams.

Culture Class Collection copy 2 inscribed "To Gloom this patriotic work. H. L. Mencken 1920".

Culture Class Collection copy 2 has tear on p. 37-38.

Culture Class Collection copy suppl. is unfolded leaf containing parageraphs 499-526.

OCLC:

491254