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Author: Mencken, H.L. as Leonard Keene Hirshberg
Title: What You Ought to Know About Your Baby
Place Published: New York
Publisher:Butterick Publishing
Date Published: 1910
Description:

(8vo) original cloth, dust-jacket.

Inscribed by Mencken on the front free endpaper: "For Alexander F. Haas / This was written for the / Delineator and to the order / of Theodore Dreisler (sic), then its / editor./ I wrote the whole / text ([and] some [of] the questions and / answers) in collaboration / with Hirshberg. / H L Mencken / June 30, 1926." With the exception of his rare first book, this is Mencken's scarcest title. Though not published under his own name, Mencken wrote most if not all of the text. Rare in such condition and with an important inscription - Mencken describes his role in the creation of this work.

Some chipping to jacket at spine ends and top corners; cloth with mild rubbing to edges; near fine.