Prejudices, second series / by H.L. Mencken.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

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

Contributor:

Library of Theodore Dreiser (University of Pennsylvania)

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American essays--20th century.

American essays.

Genre:

Essays.

Penn Provenance:

Rascoe, Burton, 1892-1957 (donor) (inscription) (Culture Class Collection copy)

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

Physical Description:

254 pages, 2 unnumbered pages ; 20 cm

Edition:

[First edition].

Other Title:

Prejudices. Second series

Place of Publication:

New York : Published at the Borzoi by Alfred A. Knopf, [1920]

Contents:

The national letters

Roosevelt: an autopsy

The sahara of the Bozart

The divine afflatus

Scientific examination of a popular virtue

Exeunt omnes

The allied arts

The cult of hope

The dry millennium

Appendix on a tender theme.

Notes:

With half-title.

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

Includes index.

Dark blue cloth binding with Mencken arms stamped in blind on front cover. Spine lettered in gilt.

Local Notes:

List of author's works on preliminary leaf.

Culture Class Collection copy inscribed "To Burton Rascoe in acknowledgment of a dirty job performed in the grand manner. H.L. Mencken 1920".

Culture Class Collection copy had an essay "The South" by H. L. Mencken (1 fold. leaf ; 61 cm.) laid in, now in Misc Print Collection oversize box 2 no 21.

Cited in:

A bibliography of the writings of H.L. Mencken / by Carroll Frey, no.12.

Contains:

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

OCLC:

2476192