Heathen Days 1890-1936 [Inscribed Association Copy]

SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR at first end page - "Dr. Roy D. McClure, To recall a day when he operated on me - and cured me ! H.L. Mencken 1943". With bookplate of Roy Donaldson McClure. Dr McClure completed his surgical residency under Dr. William S. Halsted, who is considered the father of American surgery, and then became the first Surgeon-in-Chief at the Henry Ford Hospital, serving there from 1916 until he retired in 1951. During that time he became internationally recognized for his skills as a surgeon. A great Association Copy, Very Good, lacking the dust jacket, two 1943 newspaper clipping reviews laid in. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.