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A BOOK OF PREFACES
By H. L. MENCKEN
PUBLISHED AT THE BORZOI . NEW YORK . BY
ALFRED . A . KNOPF
COPYRIGHT, 1917, BY ALFRED A. KNOPF, INC.
_Published September, 1917_
_Second edition, 1918_
_Third edition, August, 1920_
_Reprinted, January, 1922_
_Set up, electrotyped and printed by Vail-Ballou Co., Binghamton, N. Y.
Paper (Warren's) furnished by Henry Lindenmeyr & Sons, New York, N. Y.
Bound by the Plimpton Press, Norwood, Mass._
MANUFACTURED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
_BY H. L. MENCKEN_
VENTURES INTO VERSE
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW: HIS PLAYS
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_With R. R. La Monte_
A LITTLE BOOK IN C MAJOR
A BOOK OF CALUMNY
[_The above books are out of print_]
THE PHILOSOPHY OF FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE
A BOOK OF BURLESQUES
IN DEFENSE OF WOMEN
A BOOK OF PREFACES
PREJUDICES: FIRST SERIES
PREJUDICES: SECOND SERIES
THE AMERICAN LANGUAGE
_New York: Alfred A Knopf_
PREFACE TO THE FOURTH EDITION
This fourth printing of "A Book of Prefaces" offers me temptation, as
the third did, to revise the whole book, and particularly the chapters
on Conrad, Dreiser and Huneker, all of whom have printed important new
books since the text was completed.
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