“There is, in fact, no secret grievance. You surely know me well enough to know that I never have secret grievances.”
A collection of over four hundred letters addressed to the dozens of people in journalist and essayist Mencken’s orbit, many of them important figures on their own account, sent between 1900 and 1956, the year of his death. They are addressed, among others, to Theodore Dreiser, Harry Leon Wilson, Ellery Sedgwick, James Joyce, Louis Untermeyer, Ernest Boyd, Carl Van Vechten, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Louise Pound.
Author: H. L. Mencken
Title: Letters of H. L. Mencken
Edition: First Edition, second printing
Published: New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1973
Physical Description: Hardcover; Octavo; 506p
Condition: Very good condition dust jacket (price-clipped) with light edge wear, old bookseller stamped affixed to front inside flap, and toning—in new protector. Boards and spine very clean with light edge wear, bumping to corners, and crushing at spine ends. Binding tight and square. Pages toned.
Comments: Very clean copy
