Search Results: happy days by mencken hl

UsedGood. Price sticker on front cover. Clean, great binding. Cover shows light wear from reading/handling. Dog-Eared Books is a small, women owned and operated business. The overall book is a little bent.

Dorset, 1989-01-01. hardcover. Acceptable. 8x5x2.

Vintage Books, September 1981. Trade Paperback. Good. Vintage book. Pages are clean and unmarked, though modest aging/tanning to aged pages. Foxing and tanning on page edges Binding sound. Shelf-wear to book and creasing on cover. Family-owned bookshop in Steubenville, Ohio: BookMarx Bookstore. Books shipped within 24 hours.

Alfred A. Knopf, 1963. Hardcover. Very Good Condition/Good. 313 pages, sixth printing. Initials inside. Light discoloring and wear; tight square binding; very good shape. the jacket is discolored, a couple tears and chips; price intact on the flap; price sticker as well. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Inventory No: 210459. .

Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubber & Co Ltd, 1940. Hardcover. Acceptable. 1940. First Published in England. 313 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Pages are lightly tanned and foxed throughout, heavier to endpapers and pastedowns. Minor pencil inscription to front free endpaper. Binding is slightly shaky. Boards have mild edge wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Soft crushing to spine ends. Mild sunning to spine and edges. Scuffing and light marking overall. Light water staining and brown marking to all surfaces.

Knopf, 1955. Former owwner's bookplate, light edge soil/browning on cover. Inside clean and tight, nice copy.. Hardcover. Very Good.

New York: Knopf, 1980. Fourth Printing. . Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 337pp. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

Alfred A. Knopf, 1980. First edition, first printing. Fine in fine, spine-toned dust jacket, in mylar cover..

Alfred A. Knopf, 1980. Hardcover. Acceptable. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Dorset. Used - Very Good. Very Good condition. Very Good dust jacket. Three volumes in one. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner’s name, short gifter’s inscription or light stamp.

Armed Services, 1940. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Fair/No Jacket. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" Tall (oblong). Wear and rubbing to wraps; small tears along extemities. Pages browning with age.

New York: The Library of America, 2014. Hardcover. Very good +/Very good +. Hardcover. 8 1/4" X 5 1/4". viii, 872pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of unclipped dust jacket. Bound in brown cloth over boards with spine stamped in red and gilt. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is firm and sound. With two tan, silk bookmarks sewn in. ABOUT THIS BOOK: 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… Read More

Alfred A. Knopf, 1940. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Poor. Stated First or Second Printing of First Edition (Both Printings prior to publication). A Near Fine copy in a Poor dustjacket. Book has shelfwear, bumped corners, & toning to pages; DJ has shelfwear, edgewear, bumped corners, toning, chipping to top & bottom edges of entire jacket, a piece missing from the spine, has been price clipped, and the front cover has become detached from the spine (still present). Interior is tight, clean, & unmarked.

New York: Library of America, 2014. First Printing . Hardcover in Dust Jacket. Very Good. 8vo. As-new, in an unclipped dust jacket. The definitive American literary series encompassing all periods and genres of American writing, published in exceedingly handsome hardcover volumes with sewn bindings and ribbon markers, printed on a premium acid-free lightweight opaque paper that exceeds the requirements for permanence set by the American National Standards Institute.

New York: Dorsey Press, 1990. Near Fine. Cloth. First Thus,First Printing. 8vo (up to 9½" tall). A bit of shelf wear..

Dorset 1989. Super octavo hardcover (VG+) in d/w (VG+); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage cost

Alfred A. Knopf, 1947. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 1947. First Edition. 299 pages. Pictorial dust jacket over blue cloth. Jacket is in plastic wrapper. Pages are lightly tanned and foxed throughout. Minor pencil inscription to front pastedown. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge wear with slight rubbing to surfaces. Soft crushing to spine ends. Split to top edge of front board. Light tanning to spine and edges. Unclipped jacket has moderate edge wear with chips, tears and creasing. Mild tanning to spine and edges. Jacket is in plastic wrapper.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1947. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. First edition. Jacket art by Philip Grushkin. 299pp. Illustrated with black and white photographic plates. Blue cloth, gilt spine. Topstain slightly sunned with a couple tiny nicks at the crown, near fine in a very good dust jacket with small chips and tears (affecting price), and a toned and rippled spine. Three volumes in one.

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1940. First Edition. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Near Fine in a Very Good jacket, unclipped ($2.75), toned at the spine and with a tear through Mencken's name, lightly rubbed at the edges. Beige cloth, toned, with blue and red ink lettering on the spine and front board. Square and firmly bound with a dark blue top stain, toned at the endpapers, clean otherwise. Mencken's memoir of his childhood growing up in Baltimore.

Alfred A. Knopf, 1947. Hardcover. Good. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.First printing. Shelf and handling wear to cover and binding, with general signs of previous use. Wear commensurate with age and use. Clean unmarked copy. Jacket corner has been clipped. Dust jacket wrapped in protective mylar sleeve. Secure packaging for safe delivery.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.