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Auction archive: Lot number 132

A Hoosier Holiday - with typed letter from H.L. Mencken

Estimate
US$600 - US$900
Price realised:
US$360
Auction archive: Lot number 132

A Hoosier Holiday - with typed letter from H.L. Mencken

Estimate
US$600 - US$900
Price realised:
US$360
Beschreibung:

Title: A Hoosier Holiday - with typed letter from H.L. Mencken Author: Dreiser, Theodore Place: New York Publisher: John Lane Company Date: 1916 Description: With frontispiece and illustrations by Franklin Booth (Large 8vo), original cloth-backed boards, lettered and decorated in gilt. First Edition, First State. With single page typed and initialed letter from H.L. Mencken to California poet George Sterling tipped in at front, with original mailing envelope date stamped 1921. The volume is first state, with "The war!" repeated on p.173. The letter is on Mencken's letterhead. He expresses regret to poet George Sterling about being unable to use one of his pieces for a project. He goes on to voice his thoughts on the murder trail of actor Fatty Arbuckle, and author Upton Sinclair: "My guess is that Arbuckle gets off with a very light sentence. Here in the East the jury would acquit him. The swinish effort of the district attorny [sic] to raise up prejudice against him deserves the attention of the Ku Klux Klan. Sinclair is fan-toddish. Socialism is bad medicine. " Lot Amendments Condition: Volume with some light soiling and rubbing to extremities, corner tips worn; envelope and letter with toning, original folds; very good. Item number: 299140

Auction archive: Lot number 132
Auction:
Datum:
9 Aug 2018
Auction house:
PBA Galleries
1233 Sutter Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
United States
pba@pbagalleries.com
+1 (0)415 9892665
+1 (0)415 9891664
Beschreibung:

Title: A Hoosier Holiday - with typed letter from H.L. Mencken Author: Dreiser, Theodore Place: New York Publisher: John Lane Company Date: 1916 Description: With frontispiece and illustrations by Franklin Booth (Large 8vo), original cloth-backed boards, lettered and decorated in gilt. First Edition, First State. With single page typed and initialed letter from H.L. Mencken to California poet George Sterling tipped in at front, with original mailing envelope date stamped 1921. The volume is first state, with "The war!" repeated on p.173. The letter is on Mencken's letterhead. He expresses regret to poet George Sterling about being unable to use one of his pieces for a project. He goes on to voice his thoughts on the murder trail of actor Fatty Arbuckle, and author Upton Sinclair: "My guess is that Arbuckle gets off with a very light sentence. Here in the East the jury would acquit him. The swinish effort of the district attorny [sic] to raise up prejudice against him deserves the attention of the Ku Klux Klan. Sinclair is fan-toddish. Socialism is bad medicine. " Lot Amendments Condition: Volume with some light soiling and rubbing to extremities, corner tips worn; envelope and letter with toning, original folds; very good. Item number: 299140

Auction archive: Lot number 132
Auction:
Datum:
9 Aug 2018
Auction house:
PBA Galleries
1233 Sutter Street
San Francisco, CA 94109
United States
pba@pbagalleries.com
+1 (0)415 9892665
+1 (0)415 9891664
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