Search Results: christmas story by mencken hl

New York: A.A. Knopf, 1946. 1st Edition. Good/--. Bill Crawford (Illustrator). Light shelfwear including one bumped corner with little wearthrough. Dampstain to six pages of spine margin. 31pp

Alfred A. Knopf. 1946. Hardcover. Fair. Hardcover; illustrations by Bill Crawford; fading, edge wear, and soiling t o exterior; tear at top of spine; illustrated endpapers; binding reinforced ; otherwise contents in fair condition with clean text. .

NY, Knopf, 1946. Stated First Edition; small 12mo.,blue cloth covered boards with color pictorial label; 31 pages; color and black & white illustrations; a very good copy in a very good dust jacket.

NY: Alfred A. Knopf, 1946. First Edition, First Printing; 32 clean, unmarked pages. blue c w/gilt titles; pictorial inset on front, lite wear at extremities; slight discoloration. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Illus. by Bill Crawford . 12 vo.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1946. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition thus. Illustrated by Bill Crawford. 16mo. 31pp. Blue cloth boards with color pictorial inlay on front board, gilt-stamped spine title. Boards bowed with faint foxing, and fraying at the spine ends, very good, lacking the dust jacket. This story was first printed in the *New Yorker*.

NY: ALFRED A KNOPF, 1946. STATED FIRST. . Hardcover. Fine/Very Good. CRAWFORD BILL. SOLID CLEAN AND VERY BRIGHT DEDICATED TO ALL INFIDELS THIS WAS THE AUTHORS SHORTEST BOOK BEAUTIFUL ILLUSTRATIONS BY BILL CRAWFORD BOUND IN BLUE WITH COMPLETE GOLD LETTERING AND A PERFECT PASTEDOWN ON FRONT COVER SMALL NEAT PREVIOUS OWNERS SIGNATURE JACKET IS BRIGHT WITH CHIPS AT TOP OF SPINE AND ONE AT BOTTTOM A VERY NICE FIRST EDITON OF A CHRISTMAS AS ONLY H.L MENCKEN COULD DESCRIBE IT

New York: Knopf, 1946. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Art by Bill Crawford. 15436 shelf. Slim volume. Gold-stamped blue cloth w/ fine paste-on. No names, clean text. Unchipped price-clipped dust jacket. With b/w & color artwork. Solid collectible condition

Knopf, 1946. Hardcover. Very Good. Square 12mo in blue boards with the pastedown illustration on the cover. Very Good in like second state dustjacket.

Alfred A. Knopf, 1946. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket in good condition. First edition, first printing. Minor shelf and handling wear, overall a clean solid copy with minimal signs of use. Dust jacket now in archival sleeve. Secure packaging for safe delivery.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

NEW YORK NY: ALFRED A KNOPF CO. FINE IN NEAR FINE DUST JACKET. PUB 1946. FIRST EDITION. HARDCOVER. FIRST EDITION STATED ON COPYRIGHT PAGE AND ILLUSTRATED BY BILL CRAWFORD D.J. IS PRICED $1.00 (LATER PRNTNGS HAVE HIGHER PRICE) . LIGHT BLUE CLOTH COVERED BOARDS WITH GILT TITLES TO THE SPINE AND A SQUARE PAPER COLORED ILLUSTRATED LABEL TO THE FRONT COVER, COLOR ILLUSTRATED ENDPAPERS. D.J. IS HAS VERY SLIGHT WEAR AT CORNERS AND SPINE-ENDS, AND IS NOT PRICE-CLIPPED. A FINE COPY OF A BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED BOOK. .

New York: Knopf, 1946. First edition, sq. 12mo, pp. 31, [1]; rear hinge starting else very good in the dust-jacket.

NY: Knopf. FINE book, VG DJ. 1st ed. 7"x5.5", 31pp. DJ p/c, minor edgewear.. 1946. 1st, 2nd state. Hardcover. FINE book, VG DJ(in Brodart). Book stays closed when stood on spine, if read, done with care. DJ corners w 1/8" chips. . Stated 1st but 2nd state as Mencken with glasses on lower panel. .

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1946. Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. First edition thus. Illustrated by Bill Crawford. 16mo. 31pp. Blue cloth boards with color pictorial inlay on front board, gilt-stamped spine title. Spotting on cloth, corners lightly rubbed, else near fine in a near fine age-toned dust jacket with spine ends nicked. This story was first printed in the *New Yorker*.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1946. First Printing Edition. Hardcover. Fine. Octavo. Bill Crawford. Tiny dust jacket spine chip; price clipped. In Mylar cover. Scarce in jacket. Out of print. First printing edition. Binding is cloth boards.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1946. 32pp. Binding variant of darker blue fine weave cloth. Colour pictorial label to front cover, colour illustrated endpapers, colour illustrations in text. (32) pp. Light darkening to gutter of front cover from binding materials, spine very l ightly sunned, else fine. Dust jacket (with Mencken's face complete on rear panel). First Edition. Cloth. Very Good+/Very Good+. Illus. by Crawford, Bill. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1946. Very Good. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1946. First Edition, stated. Signed by Mencken on full title with inscription (possibly in another hand) "To Peter Petcoff via [?] and H.L. Mencken." Small octavo (6.75" x 5.75"); 31pp. Color and black and white illustrations thorughout, with full color illustrated endpapers. Blue cloth with mounted illustration to front and gilt lettering to spine. Missing dust jacket. Boards bowing a bit at fore-edge, with fading and toningalong spine and fore-edge, a few scattered smudges to cloth, and dulling to spine lettering. Glue shadow / toning along gutter of final page of text and lightly opposite title page. Pages toning a bit along edges, but unmarked. Binding is secure.

HENRY LOUIS “H.L.” MENCKEN (1880-1956). Mencken was an American writer, journalist, and scholar who is sometimes called “The Sage of Baltimore”. SB. 31pg. 1946. No place. A first edition of Christmas Story inscribed “Dr. Lay Martin with veneration H.L. Mencken”. The interior pages are illustrated in both color and black and white. The dust jacket is in fine condition with light faults, and the interior pages are in very good condition also. Dr. Martin was a Baltimore-area physician who attended Princeton University.