These Were The Days.

1946-01-01. 1st Reprint Edn, 1st. Imp.. Hardcover. VG+/VG++/GD. Box X41 HARDBACK ""COMPILATION OF LIFE WITH FATHER, MY FATHER'S DARK HOUR AND LIFE WITH MOTHER,"" SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Thus. Reprint. * Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1946 (1932/36/37) * Publisher: The Reprint Society. * Binding and cover condition: Dark green glazed cloth covered boards, gilt title to black spine label. No bumps, minimal rubs, minimal shelf wear to head and tail of spine, no other visible faults. VG++.* Jacket condition: Text illustrated dust wrapper with blue titles to face and cream titles to spine on a dark brown ground. Not price clipped but showing no shelf price. Some shelf wear & chips to top & bottom edges and to head & tail of spine. Somewhat age darkened especially to spine. Now in clear un-attached protective wrapper. GD.* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Top edge coloured (dark maroon.) Clean, crisp, tight and bright with no reading wear, no marks to text, slight age marks to fore edges, otherwise no major faults. VG+.* Illustrations: None. * Pages: 342 pp. text. ii pp. blank pages at rear.* Description: Clarence Day achieved great success with God and My Father (1932), Life with father (1935) and Life With Mother (1936) the last two of which appear in this compilation. Drawn from his own family experiences, these were pleasant and gently satirical portraits of a late Victorian household dominated by a gruff, opinionated father and a warm, charming mother. There are acknowledgements to the editors of Harper's Magazine, The Ladies Home Journal, The New Republic, The New Yorker, The Saturday Review of Literature and the Literary Review of the The New York Evening Post, in which many of the chapters contained in the book first appeared..* A VG+ text copy with some age and wear to dust jacket reducing it to GD. Now in clear un-attached protective wrapper.* 0