Product code: A CHOICE OF DAYS by H.L. shops Mencken; Vintag
A CHOICE OF DAYS by H.L. Mencken; Vintage Softcover Paperback. Author: H.L. Mencken Publisher: Vintage Books ©️ 1980 Condition is pre-owned but in Very Good shape. Book description: Memories of infancy, early schooling, Baltimore provender, "The Larval Stage of a Bookworm," and other autobiographical essays culled from Happy Days (1940), Newspaper Days (1941), and Heathen Days (1943) and splendidly—which is to say buoyantly—introduced by Edward L. Galligan. Readers are alerted to Mencken's relish of idiosyncracies, his "admiration for competence," his "delight in language"; warned of his racism and reminded of his irreverence (which attracted Richard Wright); and then turned loose with this "genuine razzle-dazzle of a book." Here is Mencken, at 18, applying for his first shops newspaper job, disappointed and elated at being told "to drop in again of an evening."... Ships quickly and with care. USPS Priority Mail.
A CHOICE OF DAYS by H.L. Mencken; Vintage Softcover Paperback. Author: H.L. Mencken Publisher: Vintage Books ©️ 1980 Condition is pre-owned but in Very Good shape. Book description: Memories of infancy, early schooling, Baltimore provender, "The Larval Stage of a Bookworm," and other autobiographical essays culled from Happy Days (1940), Newspaper Days (1941), and Heathen Days (1943) and splendidly—which is to say buoyantly—introduced by Edward L. Galligan. Readers are alerted to Mencken's relish of idiosyncracies, his "admiration for competence," his "delight in language"; warned of his racism and reminded of his irreverence (which attracted Richard Wright); and then turned loose with this "genuine razzle-dazzle of a book." Here is Mencken, at 18, applying for his first shops newspaper job, disappointed and elated at being told "to drop in again of an evening."... Ships quickly and with care. USPS Priority Mail.