H. L. Mencken, Ventures into Verse, with illustrations and other things by Charles S. Gordon & John Siegel, New York: Marshall, Beek & Gordon, 1903. Extensively annotated by Mencken, e.g., "This is so bad that I am reduced to silence! M", and with his presentation inscriptions first to Charles Gordon and later to Frank Hogan. According to Gordon, this was the first copy off the press on 6 June 1903 and was taken by him to Mencken; only 100 copies were printed, 50 being turned over to Mencken and the press retaining 50, 35 of which were burned up in the great Baltimore fire of February 1904.
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H. L. Mencken, Ventures into Verse, with illustrations and other things by Charles S. Gordon & John Siegel, New York: Marshall, Beek & Gordon, 1903. Extensively annotated by Mencken, e.g., "This is so bad that I am reduced to silence! M", and with his presentation inscriptions first to Charles Gordon and later to Frank Hogan. According to Gordon, this was the first copy off the press on 6 June 1903 and was taken by him to Mencken; only 100 copies were printed, 50 being turned over to Mencken and the press retaining 50, 35 of which were burned up in the great Baltimore fire of February 1904.
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Extensively annotated by Mencken, e.g., "This is so bad that I am reduced to silence! M", and with his presentation inscriptions first to Charles Gordon and later to Frank Hogan. According to Gordon, this was the first copy off the press on 6 June 1903 and was taken by him to Mencken; only 100 copies were printed, 50 being turned over to Mencken and the press retaining 50, 35 of which were burned up in the great Baltimore fire of February 1904.
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“H. L. Mencken, Ventures into Verse, with illustrations and other things by Charles S. Gordon & John Siegel, New York: Marshall, Beek & Gordon, 1903. Extensively annotated by Mencken, e.g., "This is so bad that I am reduced to silence! M", and with his presentation inscriptions first to Charles Gordon and later to Frank Hogan. According to Gordon, this was the first copy off the press on 6 June 1903 and was taken by him to Mencken; only 100 copies were printed, 50 being turned over to Mencken and the press retaining 50, 35 of which were burned up in the great Baltimore fire of February 1904.,” KU Libraries Exhibits, accessed May 19, 2024, https://exhibits.lib.ku.edu/items/show/8079.