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Title The Irreverent Mr. Mencken
Author Kemler, Edgar
Book #   000704
Publisher   Little Brown & Company
Place   Boston
Year   1950
Book Condition   Very Good
Jacket Condition   No Jacket
Binding   Pictorial Cover

Price:    $15.00

Description First Edition. Some browing and stains to end papers. Very solid, clean copy. Gilt on front board bright. "As I see him, Mr. Menchen is a skeptic of the first rank - an American Rabelais, Swift of Shaw - who has somehow abused his gifts. As an artist, he might have written a" Gargantua" or a "Gulliver's Travels". Instead he devoted himself almost wholly to the passing scene, and except for "The American Language", the "Days" books, and a few selections from the others, has produced no works likely to endure."