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Product Description: Dust jacket notes: "The period covered is that of his professional nonage - from his entry into journalism as a reporter for the Baltimore Morning Herald in 1899 to 1906. It was not all Baltimore, however, for he went into brief exile when the fire of 1904 destroyed the plant and forced the paper to print in Philadelphia for five weeks...read more

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9780404201760 | Ams Pr Inc, June 1, 1941, cover price $37.50 | About this edition: Dust jacket notes: "The period covered is that of his professional nonage - from his entry into journalism as a reporter for the Baltimore Morning Herald in 1899 to 1906.

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Product Description: With a style that combined biting sarcasm with the "language of the free lunch counter," Henry Louis Mencken shook politics and politicians for nearly half a century. Now, fifty years after Mencken’s death, the Johns Hopkins University Press announces The Buncombe Collection, newly packaged editions of nine Mencken classics: Happy Days, Heathen Days, Newspaper Days, Prejudices, Treatise on the Gods, On Politics, Thirty-Five Years of Newspaper Work, Minority Report, and A Second Mencken Chrestomathy...read more

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9780404201753, titled "Heathen Days, 1890-1936" | Ams Pr Inc, June 1, 1943, cover price $41.25 | About this edition: Good condition

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9780801885327 | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, August 28, 2006, cover price $27.00 | About this edition: With a style that combined biting sarcasm with the "language of the free lunch counter," Henry Louis Mencken shook politics and politicians for nearly half a century.
9780801853395 | Reprint edition (Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, September 1, 1996), cover price $15.95 | About this edition: In the third volume of his autobiography, H.

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9780394400778 | 4th edition (Alfred a Knopf Inc, June 1, 1948), cover price $50.00

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Product Description: With a style that combined biting sarcasm with the "language of the free lunch counter," Henry Louis Mencken shook politics and politicians for nearly half a century. Now, fifty years after Mencken’s death, the Johns Hopkins University Press announces The Buncombe Collection, newly packaged editions of nine Mencken classics: Happy Days, Heathen Days, Newspaper Days, Prejudices, Treatise on the Gods, On Politics, Thirty-Five Years of Newspaper Work, Minority Report, and A Second Mencken Chrestomathy...read more

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9780801885358 | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, August 28, 2006, cover price $27.00 | About this edition: With a style that combined biting sarcasm with the "language of the free lunch counter," Henry Louis Mencken shook politics and politicians for nearly half a century.
9780801853418 | Reprint edition (Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, April 1, 1996), cover price $25.00
9780394700588 | Random House Inc, February 1, 1958, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: The American satirist reveals his view of early-twentieth century life in this compilation of essays drawn from his six volumes of Prejudices

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9780403006663 | Reprint edition (Scholarly Pr, June 1, 1971), cover price $39.00 | also contains Death Wears a Beauty Mask and Other Stories

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Product Description: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work...read more

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9781104062392 | Kessinger Pub Co, February 28, 2009, cover price $35.95 | About this edition: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original.
9780838320730 | Haskell House Pub Ltd, November 1, 1975, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: Intended as a "little handbook" for Americans interested in Shaw's work, this volume brings Mencken's good sense and probing criticism to bear on the plywright's work, and also presents for the reader Mencken's distillation of the criticism of many other writers.

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9781104058104 | Kessinger Pub Co, February 28, 2009, cover price $20.95 | About this edition: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original.

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Product Description: A posthumously published collection of over 50 essays are included and ranged under the topic headings: American Credulity; Land of the Free; The Arts Religion, Ethics and Science; Politics, Government, Jurisprudence; Education, Philology; and Miscellany...read more

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9780374955694 | Octagon Books, October 1, 1976, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: A posthumously published collection of over 50 essays are included and ranged under the topic headings: American Credulity; Land of the Free; The Arts Religion, Ethics and Science; Politics, Government, Jurisprudence; Education, Philology; and Miscellany.

Product Description: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work...read more

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9780685943182 | Bern Porter, June 1, 1979, cover price $28.50 | About this edition: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original.

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The brilliantly irreverent newspaperman and dedicated debunker sketches his own life in a work drawn from three previously released autobiographical tomes

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9780394507958 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, September 1, 1980, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: The brilliantly irreverent newspaperman and dedicated debunker sketches his own life in a work drawn from three previously released autobiographical tomes

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9780394747606 | Random House Inc, September 1, 1981, cover price $7.95 | also contains Advanced Practice Nursing: Core Concepts For Professional Role Development, Advanced Practice Nursing: Core Concepts for Professional Role Development, Advanced Practice Nursing: Core Concepts for Professional Role Development | About this edition: The brilliantly irreverent newspaperman and dedicated debunker sketches his own life in a work drawn from three previously released autobiographical tomes

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An extensive compilation of quotations from western literature arranged chronologically under topic headings and traced to their original sources

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9780394400792 | Random House Inc, June 1, 1981, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: An extensive compilation of quotations from western literature arranged chronologically under topic headings and traced to their original sources

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9780930350178 | 1 edition (Northeastern Univ Pr, July 1, 1981), cover price $47.50

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The famous American journalist's selections from his writings reflect his witty interpretations of humanity, government, and a variety of other topics

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9780394752099 | Vintage Books, April 1, 1982, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: The famous American journalist's selections from his writings reflect his witty interpretations of humanity, government, and a variety of other topics

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Provides lively critiques of the elections and policies of American presidents ranging from Warren Harding to Franklin Roosevelt

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9780226519777 | Reprint edition (Univ of Chicago Pr, March 1, 1984), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Provides lively critiques of the elections and policies of American presidents ranging from Warren Harding to Franklin Roosevelt

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Reprints the first four issues of this famous twenties literary magazine, and includes poems, plays, stories, book reviews, and literary criticism

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9780893450502 | Reprint edition (Garber Communications, June 1, 1984), cover price $50.00 | About this edition: Reprints the first four issues of this famous twenties literary magazine, and includes poems, plays, stories, book reviews, and literary criticism

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9780893450526 | Garber Communications, July 1, 1984, cover price $45.00

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Product Description: Henry Louis "H. L." Mencken was an American journalist, essayist, magazine editor, satirist, acerbic critic of American life and culture, and a student of American English.  Mencken, known as the "Sage of Baltimore”, is regarded as one of the most influential American writers and prose stylists of the first half of the 20th century...read more

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9780817302962 | Univ of Alabama Pr, January 1, 1987, cover price $22.50 | About this edition: Henry Louis "H.

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Though best known for his caustic newspaper columns, H. L. Mencken's most enduring contribution to American literature may be his autobiographical writings, most of which first appeared in the New Yorker. In Happy Days, Mencken recalls memories of a safe and happy boyhood in the Baltimore of the 1880s and celebrates a way of life that he saw swiftly changing―from a time of straw hats and buggy rides to locomotives and bread lines.

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9780404201746, titled "Happy Days 1880-1892" | Ams Pr Inc, September 1, 1987, cover price $41.25

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9780801885310, titled "Happy Days: 1880-1892" | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, August 28, 2006, cover price $27.00
9780801853388 | Reprint edition (Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, April 1, 1996), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Though best known for his caustic newspaper columns, H.

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Product Description: Behind only the King James Bible, Shakespeare, and Twain, comes Mencken as a quotable source on subjects including (but far from limited to) diet and exercise, fundamentalists and preachers, marriage and divorce, presidents and congressmen, theater and entertainment, city life and farmers, scener...read more

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9780810821507, titled "The Gist of Mencken: Quotations from America's Critic" | Scarecrow Pr, April 1, 1990, cover price $83.50 | About this edition: Behind only the King James Bible, Shakespeare, and Twain, comes Mencken as a quotable source on subjects including (but far from limited to) diet and exercise, fundamentalists and preachers, marriage and divorce, presidents and congressmen, theater and entertainment, city life and farmers, scenery

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Product Description: The decisive influence of Friedrich Nietzsche on H.L. Mencken is readily acknowledged in the vast literature on the great American journalist and social critic. However, Mencken's 1908 study of the philosopher has been relegated to footnote status by Mencken's critics and biographers and has been largely ignored by Nietzsche scholars...read more

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9781560006497 | Reprint edition (Transaction Pub, January 1, 1993), cover price $30.95 | About this edition: The decisive influence of Friedrich Nietzsche on H.

Product Description: After thirty-five years in a sealed vault, the autobiography of one of America's greatest social and literary critics chronicles Mencken's remarkable life, discussing his rivalries, feuds, and friendships; his views on the world; and much more. 12,500 first printing.

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9780517178812 | Random House Value Pub, July 1, 1997, cover price $3.99 | About this edition: After thirty-five years in a sealed vault, the autobiography of one of America's greatest social and literary critics chronicles Mencken's remarkable life, discussing his rivalries, feuds, and friendships; his views on the world; and much more.
9780679413158 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, January 1, 1993, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Chronicles Mencken's remarkable life, discussing his rivalries, feuds and friendships, views on the world, and much more

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9780679741022 | Reprint edition (Vintage Books, January 1, 1995), cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Sealed in a vault for 35 years--upon the direction of Mencken himself--this account of the writer's early career is so telling and uproariously opinionated that it might have provoked a storm of libel suits, had it been published immediately after his death.

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Product Description: With a style that combined biting sarcasm with the "language of the free lunch counter," Henry Louis Mencken shook politics and politicians for nearly half a century. Now, fifty years after Mencken’s death, the Johns Hopkins University Press announces The Buncombe Collection, newly packaged editions of nine Mencken classics: Happy Days, Heathen Days, Newspaper Days, Prejudices, Treatise on the Gods, On Politics, Thirty-Five Years of Newspaper Work, Minority Report, and A Second Mencken Chrestomathy...read more
By Vincent Fitzpatrick (editor), Fred Hobson (editor), Bradford Jacobs (editor) and H. L. Mencken

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9780801847912 | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, September 1, 1994, cover price $36.00 | About this edition: A portrait of newspaper life during the heyday of print journalism describes Mencken's animosity-inducing editorials, including material on his coverage of presidential candidates and Baltimore personalities, and touching on his stint as a war correspondent.

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9780801885563 | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, September 6, 2006, cover price $28.00 | About this edition: With a style that combined biting sarcasm with the "language of the free lunch counter," Henry Louis Mencken shook politics and politicians for nearly half a century.

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A collection of Mencken's essays, treating such topics as morality, the legal profession, New York City, American eating habits, and academic criticism

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9780679428299 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, January 1, 1995, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: A collection of Mencken's essays, treating such topics as morality, the legal profession, New York City, American eating habits, and academic criticism

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