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The Art of the Personal Essay: An Anthology from the Classical Era to the Present6955714.124.000.81
A Mencken Chrestomathy: His Own Selection of His Choicest Writing3866564.254.000.74
The American Language5643384.334.250.76
The Best American Essays of the Century3665383.824.000.90
Drinking, Smoking and Screwing: Great Writers on Good Times2571343.354.001.04
The Vintage Mencken3492303.703.750.94
Atheism: A Reader1313253.884.000.67
Prejudices: A Selection1581164.134.000.86
In Defense of Women2093154.074.000.87
Treatise on the Gods1144144.325.000.84
Baseball Reader65 134.044.000.75
The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche851113.644.000.80
Notes on Democracy654114.184.000.83
A Second Mencken Chrestomathy68 104.004.000.89
A Religious Orgy in Tennessee: A Reporter's Account of the Scopes Monkey Trial49193.613.500.84
Diary of H. L. Mencken97284.004.000.66
The Norton Book of Personal Essays90 74.074.000.68
New Dictionary of Quotations67174.435.000.73
Days of H.L. Mencken36 64.504.500.50
Prejudices: The First, Second, and Third Series + Prejudices: The Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Series50 64.835.000.37
A Carnival of Buncombe54163.583.501.17
The American Scene74 64.174.000.69
Happy Days: Mencken's Autobiography: 1880-1892 (Maryland Paperback Bookshelf)32 64.334.500.75
A Book of Prefaces19 53.604.001.02
Newspaper days, 1899-190638 54.605.000.49
Eleven Plays of Henrik Ibsen136 54.404.000.49
H.L. Mencken on Religion42154.304.000.40
American Language Supplement 1 (American Language No. 1)100 54.705.000.60
My Life as Author and Editor58154.104.000.58
Minority Report48153.804.000.75
H.L. Mencken's Smart Set Criticism52 43.754.000.43
Selected Prejudices14144.635.000.65
Damn! A Book of Calumny14 43.633.751.08
American Language Supplement 2 (American Language No. 1)91 44.134.250.89
A Choice of Days58 43.754.001.09
Heathen Days: Mencken's Autobiography: 1890-1936 (Maryland Paperback Bookshelf)36 44.254.000.43
A round-table in Poictesme: A symposium14133.173.001.03
Prejudices: first series25134.335.000.94
Mencken and Sara: A Life in Letters22133.003.000.82
Treatise on Right and Wrong5 24.504.500.50
The New Mencken Letters14 23.003.00 
A Book of Burlesques11 23.003.00 
Livro Dos Insultos, O7 24.254.250.25
The bathtub hoax, and other blasts & bravos from the Chicago tribune15 24.004.00 
Prejudices: Second Series9123.753.750.25
H L Mencken On American Literature9 23.253.250.25
Pistols for two3 15.005.00 
George Bernard Shaw: His Plays2 14.004.00 
The American Language : Supplement One and Supplement Two7 14.004.00 
A.k.a. H.L. Mencken : selected pseudonymous writings1 15.005.00 
The Gist of Nietzche.2 14.504.50 
Fordomme. Udvalg og oversættelse ved Hartvig Andersen. (Hasselbalchs Kulturbibliotek Bd. XXX)1 14.504.50 
Friedrich Nietzsche7 13.003.00 
H.L. Mencken: Prejudices: The First, Second, and Third Series (The Library of America)40 15.005.00 
H.L. Mencken: Prejudices: The Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Series (The Library of America Series)47 15.005.00 
AMERICAN LANGUAGE, THE, An Inquiry into the Development of English in the United States, Supplement II (2)1 15.005.00 
Christmas Story11 14.004.00 
Mencken's last campaign: H. L. Mencken on the 1948 election4 14.004.00 
Prejudices: sixth series7 13.003.00 
Thirty-five Years of Newspaper Work: A Memoir by H. L. Mencken (Maryland Paperback Bookshelf)20 14.504.50 
Letters of H.L. Mencken18 14.004.00 
H.L. Mencken on Music15 14.004.00 
The Sensibility of Woman1 13.003.00 
Americana 19261     
Gesammelte Vorurteile1     
Prejudices, Fifth Series5     
The rewards of virtue2     
Essays by James Huneker1     
H. L. Mencken 5 volume set: Treatise on the Gods, The Impossible H. L. Mencken (selection of best newspaper stories), In Defense of Women, Vintage Mencken (gathered by Alistair Cooke), Prejudices: a selection1     
The American Language with Supplements One and Two4     
Ausgewählte Schriften: Ausgewählte Werke, 3 Bde., Bd.2, Autobiographisches 1930-19481     
A Girl From Red Lion, P.A.1     
Supplement1     
American Language, The: Fourth Edition: Corrected Enlarged and Rewritten1     
American Mercury Magazine, September to December 19261     
More and Better Psychopaths (Short Story)1     
James Branch Cabell; three essays1     
Ich Kuss Die Hand: The Letters of H.L. Mencken to Gretchen Hood1     
A little book in C major3     
Menckeniana: A Selection from H.L. Menken's A Mencken Chrestomathy1     
Europe After 8:155     
Mencken'S America15     
Three Early Works: A Book of Prefaces; Damn! A Book of Calumny; The American Credo17     
The Scopes Trial (in Law as Lit)1     
The American Mercury: Volume 26, Number 107: November 1932 (Including John Fante "Home Sweet Home"1     
The American Mercury: Volume 26, Number 104: August 1932 (including John Fante "Altar Boy")1     
Dreiser-Mencken Letters: The Correspondence of Theodore Dreiser and H. L. Mencken, 1907-1945. 2 volumes.2     
The mating game and how to play it: Tips and pointers from the collected wisdom of H. L. Mencken (over fifty years a bac5     
Prejudices: Fourth series6     
The Window of Horrors (in Great Tales of Terror, JOSHI)1     
The triumph of the have-not1     
American Mercury: Facsimile Edition of Volume I2     
The Gist of Mencken: Quotations from America's Critic5     
The American mercury3     
A gang of pecksniffs: And other comments on newspaper publishers, editors and reporters15     
Comment peut-on être américain ?1     
Samlade fördomar : artiklar och essayer2     
The American Mercury Volume I, No. 3; March 19242     
James Branch Cabell2     
Americana4     
Americana 19252     
Prejudices: Third Series7     
The artist; a drama without words1     
Heliogabalus, a buffoonery in three acts3     

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