The American Language Reference Library- The American Language: An Inquiry into the Development of English in the United States; Supplement One; Supplement Two; A New Dictionary of Quotations on Historical Principles from Ancient and Modern Sources (4 volumes in a slipcase)

769; 739; 890; 1347pp. Large octavo. Three of the volumes in black cloth over boards. The fourth volume is in blue cloth over boards. Books show light shelfwear. In price-clipped dust jackets, with a handful of shallow closed tears and chips in the edges. Spine of jacket of volume 1 is heavily darkened. Front panels of jackets of volumes 2 and 3 are a bit soiled. Housed in a slipcase with wear, including a couple of prominent splits at the head and foot, and a bit of staining to the top panel (good only). May require extra postage due to weight. Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) was an American journalist, essayist, satirist, cultural critic, and scholar of American English. He was a sharp critic of American life who strongly influenced U.S. fiction through the 1920s. Fourteenth Printing of the Fourth Edition, Corrected, Enlarged, and Rewritten; A New Dictionary of Quotations is a Fifth Printing.