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Christmas story. / H. L. Mencken. Illustrations by Bill Crawford.
LIBRA PS3525.E43 C5
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Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection AC9 M5223 946c
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Christmas stories.
- Genre:
- Christmas stories.
- Short stories.
- Physical Description:
- 32 unnumbered pages : illustrations (part color) ; 18 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1946.
- Notes:
- With half-title.
- "This story was first printed in the New Yorker ... "
- "This is a Borzoi Book, published by Alfred A. Knopf."
- "First Edition"
- Two printings of back dustjacket: back cover illustration has a bum panhandling Mencken and is inscribed in script 'Mr. Mencken and friend'. Parts of design missing in dustjacket A including the right lens of Mencken's glasses.--Cf. Schrader.
- Light blue cloth binding with illustration on front cover of a bum picking up a cigar. Back cover has blindstamped Borzoi emblem. Spine stamped in gilt. Illustrated endpapers.
- Local Notes:
- Culture Class Collection copy has dustjacket B which has complete design on back retained.
- Cited in:
- Schrader, R. J. : H. L. Mencken. University of Pittsburgh, p. 279
- OCLC:
- 289414
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