Minority Report H.L.Mencken's Notebooks
by Mencken, H.L
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Rio Rancho, New Mexico, United States
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About This Item
New York: Alfred Knopf, 1956 293 pp. Text is clean, tight and unmarked. Blue boards with gold stamped title are sunned ar spine. In the preface Mencken refers to the book as". selections chosen more or less at random from the memoranda of long years devoted to the persuit, anatomizing and embalming of ideas." Acerbic comment on current pieties.. First Edition. Cloth. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Catron Grant Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 300141
- Title
- Minority Report H.L.Mencken's Notebooks
- Author
- Mencken, H.L
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- Alfred Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1956
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Terms of Sale
Catron Grant Books
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About the Seller
Catron Grant Books
Biblio member since 2012
Rio Rancho, New Mexico
About Catron Grant Books
Specializing in olderbooks on travel and exploration in Asia, and World War II Pacific and Southeast Asia.Online sales and antiquarian book shows in the American West.
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