1941 Essay Annual: A Yearly Collection of Significant Essays, Personal, Critical, Controversial, and Humorous by Walter, Erich A., ed.; Thomas Wolfe, H.L. Mencken, et al - 1941

Chicago: Scott, Foresman & Company, 1941. Book. Good-. Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo. Ex-Library, but still sound otherwise; with usual university library ownership and discard marks, pocket and bar code sticker to endpaper; spine catalog label neatly removed. Book shows general shelf wear and some aging to page paper, perusal signs here and there to text. One essay has some pencil marks (4 pages); text still well bound and useful. Covers show edgge wear, rubbing, and corner dings to the fore-edges. No dust jacket. Bound in publisher's grey cloth and paper over boards. Contains: 1) Make America Your Garden, Seeker by Thomas Wolfe, PART I: LANGUAGE: 2) D.A.E.: The Book America Wrote by Edward M. Brecher, 3) A Semantic Parable by S.I. Hayakawa -- 4) The American language by H.L. Mencken, 5) Vocabulary glorification by H.L. Mencken, PART II: EDUCATION: 6) Vocabulary and success by Johnson O'Connor, 7) How to mark a book by Mortimer J. Adler, 8) What every freshman should know by Roger W. Holmes, 9) The relation of the humanities to general education by Howard Mumford Jones, 10) 1500 scholars: the British civil service by Fortune staff -- PART III: THE RADIO: 11) Berlin speaking by William Lawrence Shirer, 12) Literature of the air by Katharine Best,PART IV: SCIENCE: 13) Sulfanilamide: miracle medicine by John Pffeifer,14) Too small to see but not to read by Marvin Lowenthal, 15) Icarus or Daedalus? by Fortune staff, 16) Revolution in Radio; PART V: THE CRITICAL WORLD: 17) Man's enchanted dust by William Rose Benet, 18) Ernest Hemingway crosses the bridge by Clifton Fadiman, 19) John Donne, O.P. by Time staff, 20) The Arts as Motive Power by Maxwell Anderson -- PART VI: THE OUTDOORS: 21) One man's meat by E.B. White -- PART VII: SOCIAL TRENDS: 22) Citizenship by Roger W. Holmes -- 23) Main street in 1940: Sigourney, Iowa by Dale Kramer -- 24) Our widening American culture by Frederick Lewis Allen -- 25) The future of the American city by Lewis Mumford; PART VIII: PEOPLE AND PLACES: 26) Walt Disney by Paul Hollister, 27) In an American factory by Stoyan Pribichevich -- 28) Cornelius McGillicuddy by John R. Tunis, 29) Talk of the Town by New Yorker staff, PART IX: THE PRESS: 30) If I owned a newspaper by Franklin P. Adams.; ETC..