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Description

Heading:
Author: Mencken. H.L.
Title: Ventures into Verse - Mencken's copy, inscribed
Place Published: New York, etc.
Publisher:Marshall, Beek & Gordon
Date Published: 1903
Description:

46, [1] pp. Printed in black and green. (Small 8vo) cloth backed boards, printed cover label. First Edition.

Inscribed on the front free endpaper by Mencken to Alexander Haas: "For Alexander F. Haas/ I was young in / those days, and / romantic! / H L Mencken." This copy apparently from Mencken's own library, with 9 small illustrated bookplates of "Henry Louis Mencken" on front pastedown, and one on title page. An inscribed copy of Mencken's rare first book. The most recent census (Baltimore: 2005) of extant copies currently notes just 52 copies (excluding the present example), of which just 17 were in private hands at the time.

Condition

Soiling and edgewear to boards; mild soiling to endpapers; very good.

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H.L. Mencken's 1st book inscribed

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