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TBBDAYSOF
B. L. IIENCKEN
Happy Days, Newspaper Days,
and
Heathen Days,
the
three volumes of
H.
L. MENCKEN'S gay and
mordant autobiographical narrative, have now
been joined in one big entertaining book, with a
new introductory note by the author.
"... a robust panorama of high spirits and shrew4
sense and contagious fun."
-New York Herald Tribune Book Review•.
Designed by
W.
A. Dwiggins •
946
.pages •
$4.50
MRS. EGG
AKD OTHER AMERICANS
19
inimitable tales constituting the first volume of the
collected stories of THOMAS BEER, the author
of
Hanna, Crane, and The Mauve Decade.
Brought
together for the first time, they are characteristic
of one of the most distinguished writers of our gen–
eration. With an introduction by Wilson Follett.
Designed by
W.
A. Dwiggins • 556 pages •
$5.00
T E THEATRE BOOK
OF BE Y AR
194&-1947
By GEORGE JEAN NATHAN. "No dramatic critic
since the retirement of Max Beerbohm has written
more delightfully of plays and players or with
more wit and imaginatiOn."
-New York Times Book Review.
".. . in this latest volume he has tapped
a new and deeper vein of humor ... of
as high an order as Mark Twain's."
-SIDNEY KINGSLEY
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