[Henry Louis Mencken] CASTAGNA, Edwin

Long, Warm Friendship: HLM-EPFL (H. L. Mencken - Enoch Pratt Free Library) [with] 1997 Mencken Day invitation card

Baltimore: Enoch Pratt Free Library, 1964 / 1997. First Edition. Stiff printed wraps. 8vo. Pp. 9. Textured paper covers letterpress printed in blue and black, saddle stapled. With 12mo. offset printed invitation card to the Library's Mencken Day Saturday September 13, 1997, black & white portrait on the front panel. Near Fine. Item #6880

Booklet: an address delivered by Castagna, Director of the Enoch Pratt Free Library, before the District of Columbia Library Association, April 1963.

Card: program of free events including screening of the documentary film Mencken's America and a lecture by Paul Fussell.

Mencken left his papers to the library where he had conducted research since his early days as a journalist. Now housed in a removable, clear archival sleeve with acid free backing.

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Price: $25.00