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Books about H. L. Mencken -- Books by H. L. Mencken

Books about H. L. Mencken:

• Mencken and Shaw: The Anatomy of America's Voltaire and England's Other John Bull (New York: S. Newton, c1930), by Benjamin De Casseres (page images at HathiTrust)
• Pistols For Two ("by Owen Hatteras"; New York: Knopf, 1917), by H. L. Mencken and George Jean Nathan (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Sage in Harlem: H. L. Mencken and the Black Writers of the 1920s (originally published 1984; open access edition Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2019), by Charles Scruggs (multiple formats with commentary at Project MUSE)

• Menckeniana (partial serial archives)

Books by H. L. Mencken:

• Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956: The American Credo: A Contribution Toward the Interpretation of the National Mind (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1920), also by George Jean Nathan (Gutenberg text and page images)
• Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956: The American Language: A Preliminary Inquiry into the Development of English in the United States (New York: A. A. Knopf, 1919) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956: The American Language: An Inquiry into the Development of English in the United States (second edition; New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1921) (HTML at Bartleby)
• Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956, ed.: Americana (full serial archives)
• Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956, trans.: The Antichrist, by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (Gutenberg text and audio)
• Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956: The Artist: A Drama Without Words (Boston: J. W. Luce, 1912) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956, contrib.: Blanchette; and The Escape (Boston: J. W. Luce and Co., 1913), by Eugène Brieux, trans. by Frederick Eisemann (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956: A Book of Burlesques (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, c1920) (Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and page images)
• Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956: A Book of Prefaces (fourth edition; New York: A. A. Knopf, 1922) (Gutenberg text)
• Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956, contrib.: The Bookman Anthology of Essays (1923) (New York: G. H. Doran Co., c1923), ed. by John Chipman Farrar, also contrib. by Mary Austin, Arthur E. Bostwick, Benjamin Brawley, Heywood Broun, Abbie Farwell Brown, Floyd Dell, John Erskine, Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Zona Gale, Hildegarde Hawthorne, Oliver Herford, Robert Cortes Holliday, Aline Kilmer, Kenneth Macgowan, Thomas L. Masson, Arthur Bartlett Maurice, William McFee, Charles Henry Meltzer, William Lyon Phelps, Keith Preston, Burton Rascoe, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Hugh Walpole, and Alexander Woollcott (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956, contrib.: The Borzoi 1920: Being a Sort of Record of Five Years' Publishing (New York: A. A. Knopf, 1920), ed. by Alfred A. Knopf, also contrib. by Maksim Gorky, Claude Fayette Bragdon, Witter Bynner, Willa Cather, Clarence Day, Floyd Dell, Wilson Follett, A. P. Herbert, Joseph Hergesheimer, Philip Moeller, George Jean Nathan, Sidney L. Nyburg, Eunice Tietjens, H. M. Tomlinson, Carl Van Vechten, Arthur Waley, Conrad Aiken, Pío Baroja, Mary Borden, Robert Bridges, Louis Couperus, W. H. Davies, T. S. Eliot, E. M. Forster, John Galsworthy, Kahlil Gibran, Robert Graves, E. W. Howe, W. H. Hudson, Ezra Pound, John Collings Squire, and Elliot L. Grant Watson
  • Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956, contrib.: The Borzoi 1925: Being a Sort of Record of Ten Years of Publishing (New York: A. A. Knopf, c1925), ed. by Alfred A. Knopf, also contrib. by Brooks Atkinson, Harry Elmer Barnes, Charles A. Beard, Thomas Beer, Edwin Björkman, Claude Fayette Bragdon, Witter Bynner, Willa Cather, A. E. Coppard, Mildred Cram, William Cummings, Walter De la Mare, Floyd Dell, J. S. Fletcher, Wilson Follett, John T. Frederick, David Garnett, Louis Golding, James Henle, Joseph Hergesheimer, Richard Hughes, Storm Jameson, Llewellyn Jones, D. H. Lawrence, Newman Levy, Haldane Macfall, George Jean Nathan, Ernest Newman, James Oppenheim, Roland Pertwee, Julia Peterkin, M. P. Shiel, Lee J. Smits, G. B. Stern, James Stevens, Ruth Suckow, Frank Swinnerton, Paul Bernard Thomas, Eunice Tietjens, Carl Van Doren, Carl Van Vechten, Henrie Waste, John V. A. Weaver, Hugh Wiley, Thyra Samter Winslow, Elinor Wylie, and Francis Brett Young (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956: Damn! A Book of Calumny (New York: Philip Goodman Co., 1918) (Gutenberg text)
• Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956, ed.: A Doll's House (Boston and London: J. W. Luce and Co., c1909), by Henrik Ibsen (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956: Europe After 8:15 (c1914), also by George Jean Nathan and Willard Huntington Wright, illust. by Thomas Hart Benton (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956: George Bernard Shaw: His Plays (Boston and London: J.W. Luce and Co., 1905)
  • page images at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956, ed.: The Gist of Nietzsche (Boston: J. W. Luce and Co., 1910), by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
  • page images at Google; US access only
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956: Heliogabalus: A Buffoonery in Three Acts (New York: A. A. Knopf, 1920), also by George Jean Nathan (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956: In Defense of Women (New York: A. A. Knopf, 1924) (page images at Harvard)
• Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956: In Defense of Women (Gutenberg text)
• Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956, contrib.: Jurgen and the Censor: Report of the Emergency Committee Organized to Protest Against the Suppression of James Branch Cabell's Jurgen (New York: Privately printed for the Emergency Committee, 1920), by Emergency Committee Organized to Protest Against the Suppression of James Branch Cabell's Jurgen, also contrib. by James Branch Cabell, Barrett H. Clark, Padraic Colum, Edward Hale Bierstadt, Arnold Bennett, Theodore Dreiser, Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, Joseph Hergesheimer, Sinclair Lewis, Christopher Morley, Hugh Walpole, Kate Douglas Wiggin, and Owen Wister (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956: A Little Book in C Major (New York: John Lane Co., 1916) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956: Men Versus the Man: A Correspondence Between Robert Rives La Monte, Socialist, and H. L. Mencken, Individualist (New York: H. Holt, 1910), also by Robert Rives La Monte (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956: The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche (third edition; Boston: Luce and Co., 1913) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956: Pistols For Two ("by Owen Hatteras"; New York: Knopf, 1917), also by George Jean Nathan (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956: Prejudices: First Series (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956: Prejudices: Fourth Series (New York: A. A. Knopf, c1924) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956: Prejudices: Second Series (London: J. Cape, c1921) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956: Prejudices: Third Series (New York: A. A. Knopf, c1922) (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956, contrib.: Ventures in Common Sense (New York: A. A. Knopf, 1919), by E. W. Howe (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956: Ventures into Verse: Being Various Ballads, Ballades, Rondeaux, Triolets, Songs, Quatrains, Odes and Roundels (New York et al.: Marshall, Beek and Gordon, 1903), illust. by Charles S. Gordon and John Siegel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956: What You Ought to Know about Your Baby (Mencken uncredited in this edition; New York: Butterick Pub. Co., 1910), also by Leonard Keene Hirshberg (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Mencken, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1880-1956, contrib.: The Work of Stephen Crane (12 volumes, with introductions by different authors; New York: Russell and Russell, 1963), by Stephen Crane, ed. by Wilson Follett, also contrib. by Joseph Hergesheimer, Robert H. Davis, Carl Van Doren, William Lyon Phelps, Amy Lowell, Thomas Beer, Willa Cather, Sherwood Anderson, and Charles Michelson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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