NMLP P-045633 · Book-club / reprint tell · minted 2026-07-19

The American Language

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

No first-year book-club issue; later trade editions are common and are not the 1919 limited printing. Absence of the numbered limitation leaf rules out the true first.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Book-club / reprint tell NMLP P-045633 for "The American Language" by H. L. Mencken (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-045633, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).