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Prejudices. First Series. H. L. Mencken

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Knopf. The Popular Edition. 1923. 254 pps with index. Menckenâ€™s essays on a wide range of subjects, including the arts, ideas, love, types of men, women, government, etc. Clean copy, with loose spines, endpapers loose, some spotting to covers. Mencken, 1880-1956, was an American editor & critic, known for his vitriolic attacks on nearly every social, political, and religious group of his day.

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