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Americana. [Adams (Henry Brook)], Democracy: An American Novel, first edition, BAL State F, New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1880, adverts printed in red, title-page with owl device and corrected to Leisure-Hour Series - No. 111, signature mark F lacking on page 65, original publisher's pictorial cloth, 8vo; Roosevelt (Theodore), The Strenuous Life, first UK edition, London: Grant Richards, 1902, original red cloth, 8vo; Mencken (H.L.), Prejudices: First Series, first UK edition, London: Jonathan Cape, 1921, original yellow cloth, 8vo; Mencken (H.L., editor), Americana 1925, first UK edition, 1925, blue cloth, 8vo; Travel: Melville (Herman), Typee: A Peep at Polynesian Life During a Four Months' Residence [...], copy no. 509/750, London: Constable and Company Ltd, 1922, original publisher's blue cloth, uncut, 8vo, (5)
Provenance: Peter Messent, Emeritus Professor of Modern American Literature and former Head of the School of American and Canadian Studies at the University of Nottingham.
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