Drug Store Days; My Youth among the Pills & Potions
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc. [1959], 1959. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [6], 1-184, [2] pp. Quarter red cloth over patterned red paper boards with red and white lettering on the spine. Price of $3.50 on the front flap of the dust jacket. Full-page illustrations by Catherine Barnes. Inscribed without personalization on the free front endpaper ("All Good Wishes, Richard Armour"). A memoir of the author's boyhood, part of which was spent working in his family's drug store from 1912 to 1918. Near Fine / Very Good. Item #000014368
Light wear to the boards' edges and light foxing to the top textblock; jacket with traces of edge wear and three small spots of soiling to its rear panel.
Price: $45.00