From Houle Rare Books/Autographs/ABAA/PADA, Palm Springs, CA, U.S.A.
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("Mencken") 1 page, The American Mercury letterhead, December 3, n.y. Letter to Dutch born American journalist and author Hendrik Willem Van Loon (1882-1945). Fine (with a light crease to lower right corner). In part: "The MacFadden Breck is surely tempting - I fear that they'd use anything I printed to promote their idiotic Clean Books Bill - I congratulate you upon getting over the South of France disease. I greatly dislike the privies down there - " Mencken (1880-1956), born September 12, 1880, Baltimore, Maryland; died January 29, 1956, Baltimore, Maryland; American iconoclastic journalist and prolific writer; on staff of various Baltimore newspapers from 1899; founded, with George Jean Nathan, "American Mercury" (1924); dubbed "The Sage of Baltimore". Seller Inventory # 611401
Bibliographic Details
Title: Typed Letter Signed
Binding: No Binding
Condition: Fine
Signed: Signed by Author(s)
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