Damn!: A Book of Calumny (Signed)
New York: Philip Goodman Company, 1918. First Edition. Full cloth. Duodecimo. 103 pages.
First edition, first state of Mencken's scarcest early prose work. This is an early collection of Mencken's sharp and witty essays on society, culture, religion, and politics.
This copy is SIGNED by Mencken on front free endpaper. Housed in a custom chemise and slipcase with gilt stamped dark green Morocco spine.
Bound in pale green cloth over boards with gilt-stamped spine and upper board titles. Tasteful prior owner bookplate on front pastedown, small bookseller tag from Gotham Book Mart at lower inner margin of rear pastedown. Gilt spine titles somewhat darkened but still legible. Clean and sound. A near fine copy in a handsome custom box.
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