The American Mercury (Vol. XV, September-December 1928) -- editorial content only [see Notes]

New York: Alfred A. Knopf. Very Good. 1928. (Vol. XV; nos. 57-60). Hardcover. (four issues bound in decorated black covers) [a few tiny tips in cloth at top of spine, light soiling/age-toning to edges of text block]. Four issues of Mencken's idiosyncratic journal of American culture and politics, from its heyday. NOTE that in this particular binding, only the editorial matter was included -- no covers or advertisements (and unfortunately, no contents pages, since they were part of the Roman numeral-numbered front matter of each issue; however, I will supply photocopies of the contents pages of the four issues from other copies on hand). Highlights (truncated) of these issues include: "The New Tammany," by Joseph McGoldrick; "A Test of Eugenics," by Ellsworth Huntington; "Jailbirds," by Jim Tully; "The Labor Dailies," by Earl W. Shimmons (about Socialist newspapers); "The Soviet of Lady Patriots," by Margaret Cobb (about the Daughters of the American Revolution); "Why Poker Was Invented," by James Stevens; "Women as Jurors," by H.H. Sawyer; "Four Poems," by Carl Sandburg; "The Holy Rollers," by Duncan Aikman; "Gate-Crashers," by John Armstrong; "The So-called Lost Battalion," by Henry O. Swindler; "The History of a Patriot," by Benjamin DeCasseres; "Case History," by Louis Adamic; "Rise and Fall of a Hero," by Arthur Strawn (about Admiral Dewey); "Why Trial by Jury?" by Leon Green; "The Psychology of Prohibition," by Raymond Pearl; "Sports and Snobbery," by John C. Kofoed; "Simple Annals," by Catharine Brody; "The Dilemma of the Negro Author," by James Weldon Johnson; "Confusion Among the Liberals," by Roland Hugins; "Help Wanted," by Jack Woodford (about phony classified advertisements); "The Writing of 'Moby-Dick'," by Lewis Mumford. This of course is only a sampling of the breadth and richness of content to be found herein; also contained in each issue are George Jean Nathan's musings on The Theatre, and Mencken's often-scabrous reviews of current books. . (Inventory #: 27654)