Heliogabalus : a buffoonery in three acts / by H. L. Mencken and George Jean Nathan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

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

Contributor:

Nathan, George Jean, 1882-1958.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

American Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Genre:

Drama.

Penn Provenance:

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

Nathan, George Jean, 1882-1958 (autograph) (Culture Class Collection copy)

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

Physical Description:

4 unnumbered pages, 183 pages, 5 unnumbered pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, MCMXX [1920]

Notes:

With half-title.

"Copyright, 1920, by H. L. Mencken and George Jean Nathan."

"Of this book two thousand copies have been printed from type and the type distributed."

Presumed third printing.--Cf. Schrader.

Black cloth boards lettered in gilt on front cover and spine. Spine title lettered as "Helio-/gabalus, rule, Mencken/and/Nathan".

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy is no. 932.

Culture Class Collection copy has bookplate of Estelle Williams.

Culture Class Collection copy inscribed "To Gloom with the highest veneration of her devoted slaves. H. L. Mencken, George Jean Nathan".

Culture Class Collection copy has newspaper article laid in.

Culture Class Collection copy has Brentano's Booksellers & Stationers label.

Cited in:

Schrader, R. J.: H. L. Mencken. University of Pittsburgh Press, p. 109

OCLC:

1910690