[Rarebooks] FS: H. L. Mencken's Scarce Baby Book

[Charles Agvent]

[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 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. 
Minor rubbing to spine tips. Near Fine, lacking the impossibly scarce 
dustwrapper.

In a copy that sold at auction at Christies in 1995, Mencken inscribed 
the following: "I found Hirshberg. He prepared the material and I wrote 
the copy. More than 125,000 American mothers, using this invaluable 
text, have saved their brats from smallpox, arterio-sclerosis, 
poison-vol and delirium tremors. This has been my sole contribution to 
the salvation of humanity." (#020355)     $1,500

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