[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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