Publicado por Anchor, 1991
ISBN 10: 0385262086 ISBN 13: 9780385262088
Librería: Enterprise Books, Chicago, IL, Estados Unidos de America
Original o primera edición
Thick Trade PB. Condición: Fine+. First Edition; First Printing. Book Very Fine, square, tight, clean. NO notes, no underlining, no markings of ANY kind. Slight edge toning only defect. ; Thick 8vo; 707 pages.
Publicado por Doubleday, New York, 1991
ISBN 10: 0385262078 ISBN 13: 9780385262071
Librería: Sessions Book Sales, Birmingham, AL, Estados Unidos de America
Hard Cover. Condición: VG to Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: VG to Fine. 2nd Pring. 707 pages.
Publicado por Anchor Books, 1991
ISBN 10: 0385262086 ISBN 13: 9780385262088
Librería: Callaghan Books South, New Port Richey, FL, Estados Unidos de America
Original o primera edición
Soft cover. Condición: Near Fine. First Edition. Very large, thick, heavy softcover, glossy red and gray background, caricature of Mencken smoking cigar on front, excerpts on back wrapper, 707 lightly browned pages. Tiny scratch at spine bottom left edge, very tiny crease at top back tip. Near Fine.
Publicado por Anchor Books / Doubleday & Company, Inc., New York London Toronto Sydney Auckland, 1991
ISBN 10: 0385262086 ISBN 13: 9780385262088
Librería: Theoria Books, Andover, MA, Estados Unidos de America
Original o primera edición
Soft cover. Condición: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 707 pp., lx. '1' in number line; ' $15.00 ' price on rear cover. Following Gore Vidal's Foreword and Introductory material, Contents divided into 28 Sections: [I] "Reflections on Journalism"; [II] "On Being An American"; [III] "Triumph of Democracy"; [IV] "The American Scene"; [V] "The Home of the Crab"; [VI] "A Panorama of Patriots"; [VII] "Meditations on the Fair [Sex]"; [VIII] "The Dark [Negro] American"; [IX] "On Babbitts"; [X] "National Conventions" [sections by year: 1904, 1920, 1924, 1928, 1932, 1936, 1940, 1948] ; [XI] "Lame Ducks"; [XII] "The Men Who Rule Us"; [XIII] "How Legends are Made"; [XIV] "Thoughts on Eating"; [XV] "Music"; [XVI] "The American Language"; [XVII] "The National Letters"; [XVIII] "On Literary Gents" [MarkTwain, Ambrose Bierce, Edgar Allen Poe, James Huneker, Joseph Conrad, Sherwood Anderson, Sinclair Lewis, Theodore Dreiser]; [XIX] "Notice to Neglected Geniuses"; [XX] "The Book Trade"; [XXI] "Critics and Their Ways"; [XXII] "A Glance at Pedagogics"; [XXIII] "The Scopes Trial"; [XXIV] "The Believing Mind"; [XXV] "Reflections on War"; [XXVI] "Across the Border"; [XXVII] "Below the Rio Grande"; [XXVIII] "From the Note-Book of an American"; Acknowledgments, pp. 684-685; Notes to the Introduction, pp. 686-690; Index, pp. 691-707. Red and silver borders on front cover, around front cover centerpiece of political caricature by David Levine of Mencken in white shirt, tie, and striped (suspendered) trousers, with sardonic smile, smoking a large cigar. Soft diagonal creases at bottom right ffep/half-title page and vignette page; light age-toning to edges and pages (NO impact on text), else unqualifiedly Fine: Tight binding (NO creases, despite thick spine); sharp corners (NO bumps); NO remainder marks; NO previous owner names. Clean text. Solid copy, the way to read this Classic Journalist, Editor of The American Mercury (1924), Political Satirist, Humorist, erstwhile "Critic of the Oligarchy" [present day Mercury, online magazine]. Splendid gift, regardless of recipient's political dissuasion.