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First Edition Christmas Story by H. L. Mencken 1946


Title: Christmas Story
Author: H. L. Mencken
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Publication Date: 1946
Format: Hardback with dust jacket
Condition: This book is in good condition for its age other than some minor signs of wear including some tears on the dust jacket particularly on the spine.

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Reader's note

This first edition of Christmas Story by H. L. Mencken would be a great addition to a literary lovers collection. With an author’s tenderness for his offspring, describes this little book as “a Christmas story to surpass, transcend and put an end to all other Christmas stories.” He says that it is full of “pschology, sociology, theology (both moral and dogmatic), ethics aesthetics, economics, penology, psychiatry and sex appeal.” “It is aimes,” he goes on “ at infidels, and yet should delight and ravish the pious, It is as immoral as a decision by the Supreme Court of the United States, and yet it packs one of the damnedest morals ever recorded in the literature of the Western World.” All this is crowded into 32 pages, with room for the gaudy pictures by Bill Crawford.