NMLP P-045629 · Point of issue · minted 2026-07-19

The American Language

H. L. Mencken · Alfred A. Knopf (New York) · 1919

This is number ___,' which is the decisive first-printing point; copyright reads 'Copyright, 1919, by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.' Octavo, x, 374 pp, in publisher's blue cloth lettered on the spine with the top edge stained blue (a binding variant in black cloth with green spine lettering is also recorded)

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Point of issue NMLP P-045629 for "The American Language" by H. L. Mencken (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-045629, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).