[Rarebooks] FS: Very Scarce H. L. Mencken: WHAT YOU OUGHT TO KNOW ABOUT YOUR BABY
Charles Agvent
agvent at erols.com
Fri Apr 22 10:23:51 EDT 2005
Another superb item from our New York Book Fair list which will be posted on our
web page a day or two before the show next week.
[MENCKEN, H.L.] HIRSHBERG, Leonard Keene. WHAT YOU OUGHT TO KNOW
ABOUT YOUR BABY. New York: Butterick Publishing 1910. First Edition.
Aside from his nearly impossible to obtain scarce first book VENTURES
INTO VERSE, this is Mencken's scarcest book. Though not published
under his own name, Mencken wrote most if not all of the text. If you
want to know Mencken's viewpoints on subjects such as the difference
between mother's and cow's milk, there is no better, perhaps no other,
place to turn. Mild spotting to the dark green covers. Foxing and a
few very light stains to the first few pages. Nicer than the copy we
quickly sold three years ago, and we've not seen any offered anywhere
else since. Very Good, lacking the impossibly scarce dustwrapper.
$4500.00
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