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Mayfield, Sara.
The Constant Circle H. L. Mencken and His Friends
New York, Delacort Press,
1968, First Edition ed, Hard Cover,
Condition: Very Good/Very Good, Portrait of Mencken, one of America's outstanding literary critic of his generation; and its most prominent iconoclast. A personalized portait as seen through the eyes of his friend & confidante. Comprised of unpublished letters, diaries, notes and private converstations. Mencken, journalist, critic, editor and author famous for his violent and vitriolic attacks on the hypocrisy, stupidity and bigotry of much of American life as he saw it. Brown boards, borwn cloth spine, gilt lettering. Publsihers letter of introduction enclosed. DJ not price clipped, brown, picture of Mencken. Mild scuff mark to flap edge, flap edges smallest clip (not price) all else vg+ to nf. tall 8vo, 307 pages. First Edition
(H, L, Mencken, Victorian, Era, Writers, Biography, First, Edition, Literary, Criticism, Letters, Diaries, Menckeniana, Rabelaisian, Critic, American, Literature, American, Writers, Iconoclastic, Authors, Jazz, Age, Writers, Mencken, And His, Contemporaties, Jazz, Age, Literary, Circles) Cat No. 998m.
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Mayfield, Sara.
The Constant Circle H. L. Mencken and His Friends
New York, Delacort Press,
1968, First Edition ed, Hard Cover,
Condition: Very Good/Very Good, Portrait of Mencken, one of America's outstanding literary critic of his generation; and its most prominent iconoclast. A personalized portait as seen through the eyes of his friend & confidante. Comprised of unpublished letters, diaries, notes and private converstations. Mencken, journalist, critic, editor and author famous for his violent and vitriolic attacks on the hypocrisy, stupidity and bigotry of much of American life as he saw it. Brown boards, borwn cloth spine, gilt lettering. Publsihers letter of introduction enclosed. DJ not price clipped, brown, picture of Mencken. Mild scuff mark to flap edge, flap edges smallest clip (not price) all else vg+ to nf. tall 8vo, 307 pages. First Edition
(H, L, Mencken, Victorian, Era, Writers, Biography, First, Edition, Literary, Criticism, Letters, Diaries, Menckeniana, Rabelaisian, Critic, American, Literature, American, Writers, Iconoclastic, Authors, Jazz, Age, Writers, Mencken, And His, Contemporaties, Jazz, Age, Literary, Circles) Cat No. 998m.
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Mayfield, Sara.
The Constant Circle H. L. Mencken and His Friends
New York, Delacort Press,
1968, First Edition ed, Hard Cover,
Condition: Very Good/Very Good, Portrait of Mencken, one of America's outstanding literary critic of his generation; and its most prominent iconoclast. A personalized portait as seen through the eyes of his friend & confidante. Comprised of unpublished letters, diaries, notes and private converstations. Mencken, journalist, critic, editor and author famous for his violent and vitriolic attacks on the hypocrisy, stupidity and bigotry of much of American life as he saw it. Brown boards, borwn cloth spine, gilt lettering. Publsihers letter of introduction enclosed. DJ not price clipped, brown, picture of Mencken. Mild scuff mark to flap edge, flap edges smallest clip (not price) all else vg+ to nf. tall 8vo, 307 pages. First Edition
(H, L, Mencken, Victorian, Era, Writers, Biography, First, Edition, Literary, Criticism, Letters, Diaries, Menckeniana, Rabelaisian, Critic, American, Literature, American, Writers, Iconoclastic, Authors, Jazz, Age, Writers, Mencken, And His, Contemporaties, Jazz, Age, Literary, Circles) Cat No. 998m.
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Maugham, W. Somerset.
Great Modern Reading, W Somerset Maugham's Introduction to Modern English and American Literature
Garden City, New York, Nelson Doubleday,
1943, First Edition ed, Hard Cover,
Condition: Very Good/Good Plus, Cream of the contemporary world writers, and anthology of short stories, prose & poetry. From Edith Wharton to Gertrude Stein and Dorothy Parker, from Robert Frost and Stephen Vincent Benet to Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck and William Saroyan. English sources start with Kipling and come down through Lytton Strachey and Virginia Woolf, Huxley etc. A wonderful compendium of the world's greatest literary figures on one compact volume. Brown cloth boards & spine. DJ brown & black, worn to edges, chips to upper & lower spine ends, small creases to edges, 1 inch chip to spine edge upper. Decorative private lib. plate to pastedown. All else clean, tightly bound. In mylar jacket. First Ed. 614 pages sm 8 vo
(Eudora, Welty, Edna, St, Vincent, Millay, William, Faulkner, John, Dos, Passos, Ogden, Nash, Dashiell, Hammett, T, S, Eliot, James, Thurber, Rudyard, Kipling, Dorothy, Parker, Gertrude, Stein, Steinbeck, Katherine, Mansfield, Robert, Frost, Max, Beerbolm, Walter, De, La, Mare, Anthology, Of, Literature, American, Literature, English, Literature, Vintage, Books, First, Edtiion, Modern, Literature) Cat No. 999m.
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Maugham, W. Somerset.
Great Modern Reading, W Somerset Maugham's Introduction to Modern English and American Literature
Garden City, New York, Nelson Doubleday,
1943, First Edition ed, Hard Cover,
Condition: Very Good/Good Plus, Cream of the contemporary world writers, and anthology of short stories, prose & poetry. From Edith Wharton to Gertrude Stein and Dorothy Parker, from Robert Frost and Stephen Vincent Benet to Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck and William Saroyan. English sources start with Kipling and come down through Lytton Strachey and Virginia Woolf, Huxley etc. A wonderful compendium of the world's greatest literary figures on one compact volume. Brown cloth boards & spine. DJ brown & black, worn to edges, chips to upper & lower spine ends, small creases to edges, 1 inch chip to spine edge upper. Decorative private lib. plate to pastedown. All else clean, tightly bound. In mylar jacket. First Ed. 614 pages sm 8 vo
(Eudora, Welty, Edna, St, Vincent, Millay, William, Faulkner, John, Dos, Passos, Ogden, Nash, Dashiell, Hammett, T, S, Eliot, James, Thurber, Rudyard, Kipling, Dorothy, Parker, Gertrude, Stein, Steinbeck, Katherine, Mansfield, Robert, Frost, Max, Beerbolm, Walter, De, La, Mare, Anthology, Of, Literature, American, Literature, English, Literature, Vintage, Books, First, Edtiion, Modern, Literature) Cat No. 999m.
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