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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Hardcover containing the first four monthly issues of "The Smart Set: A Magazine of Cleverness." Boards and spine show a bit of discoloration; binding tight; pages clean. All pages from the magazine, though alas, none of the covers or advertisements. "The Smart Set" continued publication until 1930 as a literary take on New York's "Four Hundred." The magazine's heyday arrived in 1908 and '09, when the magazine hired H.L. Mencken and George Jean Nathan as book and drama critics, but it was striking from the first issue. An uncommon volume. 648 pages total. 2.7 pounds. …