Isbn: 9781598533088 - h. l. mencken: the days trilogy, expanded edition (loa #257): happy days / newspaper days / heathen days / days revisited: unpublished commentary: 3 (15 risultati)

Hardback. Condizione: Fair. A major literary event: Mencken's dazzling autobiography, with 200 pages of his own never-before-published commentary and photos. In 1936, at the age of fifty-five, H. L. Mencken published a reminiscence about his boyhood in The New Yorker, beginning a long and magnificent adventure in autobiography by America's greatest journalist. Mencken went on to gather his childhood recollections in Happy Days (1940), a richly detailed, poignant account of growing up in Baltimore. A critical and popular success, the book surprised many with its glimpses of a less curmudgeonly Mencken, and there soon followed the absorbing sequels Newspaper Days (1941), charting his rise at the Baltimore Herald from cub reporter to editor, and Heathen Days (1943), recounting his varied excursions as journalist and public figure, including his coverage of the Scopes trial in 1925. But unknown to the legions of Days books' admirers, Mencken continued to add to them after publication, annotating and expanding each volume in typescripts sealed to the public for twenty-five years after his death. Until now, most of this material--often more frank and unvarnished than the original Days books--has never been published. Containing nearly 200 pages of previously unseen writing, and illustrated with photographs from Mencken's archives, many taken by Mencken himself, this expanded and definitive edition of the Days trilogy is a cause for celebration. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation's literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America's best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.…

Hardback. Condizione: Fair. A major literary event: Mencken's dazzling autobiography, with 200 pages of his own never-before-published commentary and photos. In 1936, at the age of fifty-five, H. L. Mencken published a reminiscence about his boyhood in The New Yorker, beginning a long and magnificent adventure in autobiography by America's greatest journalist. Mencken went on to gather his childhood recollections in Happy Days (1940), a richly detailed, poignant account of growing up in Baltimore. A critical and popular success, the book surprised many with its glimpses of a less curmudgeonly Mencken, and there soon followed the absorbing sequels Newspaper Days (1941), charting his rise at the Baltimore Herald from cub reporter to editor, and Heathen Days (1943), recounting his varied excursions as journalist and public figure, including his coverage of the Scopes trial in 1925. But unknown to the legions of Days books' admirers, Mencken continued to add to them after publication, annotating and expanding each volume in typescripts sealed to the public for twenty-five years after his death. Until now, most of this material--often more frank and unvarnished than the original Days books--has never been published. Containing nearly 200 pages of previously unseen writing, and illustrated with photographs from Mencken's archives, many taken by Mencken himself, this expanded and definitive edition of the Days trilogy is a cause for celebration. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation's literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America's best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.…

Condizione: Fine. Used book that is in almost brand-new condition. May contain a remainder mark. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condizione: Very Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardback. Condizione: Good. A major literary event: Mencken's dazzling autobiography, with 200 pages of his own never-before-published commentary and photos. In 1936, at the age of fifty-five, H. L. Mencken published a reminiscence about his boyhood in The New Yorker, beginning a long and magnificent adventure in autobiography by America's greatest journalist. Mencken went on to gather his childhood recollections in Happy Days (1940), a richly detailed, poignant account of growing up in Baltimore. A critical and popular success, the book surprised many with its glimpses of a less curmudgeonly Mencken, and there soon followed the absorbing sequels Newspaper Days (1941), charting his rise at the Baltimore Herald from cub reporter to editor, and Heathen Days (1943), recounting his varied excursions as journalist and public figure, including his coverage of the Scopes trial in 1925. But unknown to the legions of Days books' admirers, Mencken continued to add to them after publication, annotating and expanding each volume in typescripts sealed to the public for twenty-five years after his death. Until now, most of this material--often more frank and unvarnished than the original Days books--has never been published. Containing nearly 200 pages of previously unseen writing, and illustrated with photographs from Mencken's archives, many taken by Mencken himself, this expanded and definitive edition of the Days trilogy is a cause for celebration. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation's literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America's best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Slip-Case Edition. Hardcover (no Dust Jacket, as published) with only minor reading wear; book is clean, unmarked. In stock. Ships from MN, USA.

Hardcover. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Boards may have fading and nicks and other signs of wear and imperfection commensurate with age. Binding is tight and structurally sound. Pages unmarked. Sealed in plastic for shipping. Secure packaging for safe delivery.…

Hardcover. Condizione: Like New. Excellent condition in like slipcase. No DJ, as issued. Subscriber's edition.

Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. brown, red & gilt full cloth hardcover 8vo. (octavo). with two brown satin marker ribbons. dustwrapper in protective brodart book jacket cover. fine cond. like new. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of markings. dustwrapper in fine cond. not worn or torn or price clipped. nice clean copy. no library markings, store stamps, stickers, bookplates, no names, inking, underlining, remainder markings etc~. second printing. viii+872p. b&w photo illustrations. chronology. note on the text. note on the illustrations. notes. index. biography. american litertature. memoirs. autobiography. journalism. ~ In 1936, at the age of fifty~five, H. L. Mencken published a reminiscence of his Baltimore boyhood in The New Yorker. With this modest beginning, Mencken embarked on what would become the Days trilogy, a long and magnificent adventure in autobiography by America's greatest journalist. Finding it "always agreeable to ponder upon the adventures of childhood" ( as he wrote in his diary), Mencken created more of these masterful novelistic evocations of a bygone era, eventually collected in Happy Days (1940 ). The book was an immediate critical and popular success, surprising many of its readers with its glimpses of a less curmudgeonly Mencken. Urged by New Yorker editor Harold Ross to send yet more pieces, Mencken moved on from his childhood to revisit the beginnings of his legendary career. Newspaper Days (1941) charts the rise of the brilliant, ambitious young newspaperman, in an astonishingly short time, from cub reporter to managing editor of the Baltimore Herald. Among the book's memorable episodes are the display of Mencken's "talent for faking" in his invented dispatches of the Battle of Tsushima in the Russo~Japanese War~accounts that largely turned out to be accurate~and his riveting narrative of the Great Baltimore Fire of 1904. "In my day a reporter who took an assignment was wholly on his own until he got back to the office, . today he tends to become only a homunculus at the end of a telephone wire." The final volume of the published trilogy, Heathen Days (1943), recounts his varied excursions as one of America's most famous men, and one who, by his own account, "enjoyed himself immensely," including his bibulous adventures during Prohibition and his reporting of the 1925 Scopes trial over the teaching of evolution. Until now, however, the story told in Mencken's beloved Days books has been incomplete. In the 1940s, Mencken began malting extensive notes about the published books, commenting on what he had written and adding new material~but stipulating that these writings were not to be made public until twenty~five years after his death. Days Revisited presents more than two hundred pages of this material for the first time. Commentaries are keyed to the main text they gloss with subtle marks in the margin, and they are supplemented by rare photographs, many taken by Mencken himself Here is Mencken's classic autobiography as it has never been seen before. Marion Elizabeth Rodgers, editor, is the author of Mencken: The American Iconoclast and editor of Mencken and Sara: A Life in Letters and The Impossible H. L. Mencken, among other works. She edited the Library of America edition of Mencken's Prejudices. …

Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. No marks. Minimal wear.

1st edition. 8vo. viii + 872pp. + adverts. Original boards. Pictorial black d/w. lettered in white. Very good. The Library of America 257. ISBN 9781598533088 US$12.

Hardcover. Condizione: As New. No Jacket. A clean copy in excellent condition, appears unread. Slipcased edition. Sealed. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

Hardcover. Condizione: As new. First Edition. Library of America, c2014. First Edition. 872pp., index. 8vo. Tan cloth with gold titles on spine, ribbon marker. As new unread hardcover in as new slipcase.

hardcover. Condizione: New.

Hardcover. Condizione: Brand New. expanded edition. 750 pages. 7.50x4.50x1.50 inches. In Stock.