Henry Louis MENCKEN (1880-1956). - [Selection of periodical works, all with some connection to Mencken: some with contributions from him, some with articles on him]. New York, [etc.]: 1914-1931. 113 issues from various works, various sizes. (Condition is variable, but generally excellent). Various bindings. Provenance: Alexander F. Haas collection (most with reference numbers at the front, added by Haas). (113)
An interesting selection, all from publisher Alfred Knopf, mostly first editions (see below), generally in better than average condition.
‘H. L. Mencken was unquestionably the most provocative and influential journalist and cultural critic in twentieth-century America. … Edmund Wilson wrote: “Mencken’s mind . . . has all the courage in the world in a country where courage is rare.” That courage may sometimes have been coupled with an inflexible stubbornness that led him into positions hard to defend. But to succeeding generations of writers and readers, Mencken was the figure who had risked charges of heresy and sedition and almost single-handedly brought America into a new cultural era. To read him is to be plunged into an era whose culture wars were easily as ferocious as those of our own day, in the company of a critic of vast curiosity and vivacious frankness..’ (https://loa.org/books/331-prejudices-first-second-third-series).
Comprising:
1.The Atlantic Monthly. March 1914, Nov. 1914, June 1917. 3 issues
2.The American Mercury. March-Dec. 1933. 10 issues
3.Harper’s Magazine. Sept. 1926, March 1937, May, 1937, Nov-Dec. 1937, Jan. 1938, March-Apr. 1938, June 1938-May 1939. 20 issues.
4.The Century Magazine. June 1921, March 1923. 2 issues.
5.The Dial. Oct. 1917, Feb. 1920, Apr. 1920, Jan. 1924. 4 issues.
6.The Forum. Apr. 1926, Feb. 1928 (2 copies), Feb 1929, Sept. 1930, Nov. 1930, Oct. 1932. 7 issues (incl. one duplicate).
7.Survey. Nov. 1926, Jan. 1927. 2 issues.
8.American Review. Jan. 1925, Oct. 1927. 2 issues.
9.North American Review. May 1919, Jan. 1928. 2 issues.
10.Current Opinion. June 1919, Sept. 1921 (2 copies), Feb. 1925. 4 issues (1 duplicate).
11.The Nineteenth Century and after. Jan. 1927, May 1927, 2 issues
12.The Catholic World. Oct. 1929, Sept 1930, Apr.1934, June 1934. 4 issues
13.Haldeman-Julius Monthly. Feb. 1925 (2 copies), July 1925 (2 copies), June 1926 (2 copies), Oct. 1926 (3 copies). 9 issues (including duplicates)
14.The New Republic. June 1921, Dec. 1926, March 1928. 3 issues
15.The Commonweal. March 1926, June 1929. 2 issues
16.Overland Monthly. Feb. 1927, March 1929. 2 issues
17.The Nation. April 1921, Dec. 1921, May 1923, July 1923, Dec. 1923, Aug. 1924, Oct. 1925, Nov. 1925, Feb. 1926, Oct. 1926, Feb. 1927, Apr. 1927, Oct. 1927, May 1928, June 1928, July 1928, Nov. 1928, Dec. 1930. 18 issues
18.Arts & Decoration. Jan. 1926, Jan. 1927. 2 issues.
19.Parson’s Magazine. May 1921 (2 copies). 2 issues (1 duplicate)
120.Patches. May 1927.
121.Outlook and Independent. 21 Nov. 1928
122.The Saturday Review. 1924-1931. 13 various issues (including duplicates).
[with:] a small quantity of other periodical works from about the same era. (a lot)
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