Lardner Ring John (31 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. First edition, first printing # 424 of this collection of stories, articles, poetry, quizzes and cartoons. Authors include Somerset Maugham, F Scott Fitzgerald, Saki, Dorothy Parker and more. The lamination has lifted along the edge of the book. Age toning to the cover and pages. Light reading crease to the center of the front cover. Spine faded. A 1-inch closed tear to the base of the spine / front cover. In Good Condition.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Signed by previous owner. "You Know me Al" is a classic of baseball--the game and the community. Jack Keefe, one of literature's greatest characters, is talented, brash, and conceited. Self-assured and imperceptive, impervious to both advice and sarcasm, Keefe rises to the heights, but his inability to learn makes for his undoing. Through a series of letters from this bush-league pitcher to his not-quite-anonymous friend Al, Lardner maintains a balance between the funny and the moving, the pathetic and the glorious. Nostalgic in its view of pre-World War I America--a time before the "live" ball, a time filled with names like Ty Cobb, Charles Comiskey, Walter Johnson, and Eddie Cicotte--this is not a simple period piece. It is about competition, about the ability to reason, and most of all it is about being human. First published in 1914, "You Know Me Al" says as much to us about ourselves today as it did seventy-five years ago. In his day, Ring Lardner was a legendary humorist (a job-description he disavowed), and You Know Me Al shows why everyone loved him so.

Condition: Very Good. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: As New. Unread copy in mint condition.

Condition: New. Brand New.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Used - Very Good.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Softcover, 8 3/4 by 6 inches, 174 pages. Covers have very slight wear and the pages are clean.

Soft Cover. Condition: vg-. John Celardo (illustrator). 32pp + cover; color illustrations; pp toned; contents unmarked; solid stapled binding; 10.25" tall; light shelf wear to edges of cover with color photos of Muhammad Ali on front & back. Paperback.

Paperback. 174p., preface, three play scripts, very good first edition stated trade paperback in pictorial wraps. PAJ American Drama Library Series, Bonnie Marranca & Gautam Dasgupta, editors. The original author of :Merrily We Roll Along"!

mass_market. Condition: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority!

Unknown. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Unknown. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Unknown. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Unknown. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Good.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Softcover, Trade Paperback, Condition: Fine_As New, Unread, Spine Not Broken, Tight Binding, Light bump to spine edge otherwise No other marks or stamps, clean and tight Unread copy, Trade Paperback, 9'x6", 318 pages,17 Fiction stories by various Authors: Crane, Stephen; Crews, Harry; Granberry, Edwin; Hemingway, Ernest; Herlihy, James Leo; Hurston, Zora Neale; Jewett, Sara Orne; Justice, Donald; Kantor, MacKinlay; Lardner, Ring; Lytle, Andrew; MacDonald, John D.; Pratt, Theodore; Rawlings, Marjory Kinnan; Singer, Isaac Bashevis; Vidal, Gore; Wylie, Philip.

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. Soft cover. Pocket paper back. A Bantam Pathfinder Edition. Edge/shelf wear. Corner bumped. Rubbed/scuffed. Tiny chips at edges. Ex-school room/library stamp within. No copyright page. JP20. Original cover price 20 cents. Pages toned with age. TOC available upon request. Scarce/rare/hard to find/out of print. SHORTSTORIES.

Soft Cover. Condition: vg. John Celardo (illustrator). adapted by Ochs from a screenplay by Lardner. A Golden All Star Book of the story of Muhammad Ali; 10.25" tall; 32pp; color cartoon drawings. Paperback.

HARDCOVER. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. first edition,2p; Second printing". VERY GOOD CONDITION IN VERY GOOD UNCLIPT(S7.50) DUST JACKET.CLEAN, SOLID, BRIGHT. Complete,DJ HAS edgewear at spine fold & spine ends. ; Gold spine titles on dark blue cloth hard covers.white endpapers. ; 574pg heavy pages; Indexed."most comprehensive collection of Parodies ever to appear in one volume".Lifetime Library series. Parodies of Christopher Marlow, John Donne, John Milton, Alexander Pope, . Wells parodies: PERKINS AND MANKIND, and THE DEFOSSILIZED PLUM PUDDING .

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 224 pages. 8.25x5.50x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Cloth; illustrated dust jacket; 8vo; pp. 218. Spine tips and corners lightly rubbed; a few tiny spots of soiling on boards; text block age-toned, as usual. Dust jacket a little age-toned and rubbed; a few small closed tears along top edge; not price-clipped.

Pamphlet. 20p., wraps slightly shelf worn else very good condition, 7x8.25 inches.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. First book appearance of Woolrich's "One Drop of Blood" and Highsmith's "The Terrapin," as well as Ring Lardner "Stop Me-If You've Heard This One." Tiny chips at two corners of DJ, else whole, unclipped and unmarked copy in a Brodart cover.

FIRST EDITION. COLLIER'S GREATEST SPORTS STORIES, A. S. Barnes, 1955, first edition, near fine in bright vg dust-wrapper with some closed tears and slight stain on the lower rear panel. Thirty-eight sports stories and articles reprinted from Collier's by Walter Camp, A. Conan Doyle, Ring Lardner, Knute Rockne, Damon Runyon, Red Smith, P. G. Wodehouse and others.

Condition: VG, G Dust Jacket.

Stapled. Condition: Good - Very Good. No Jacket. Edmund Davenport, Penrhyn Stanlaws, & Alan Foster (covers), John Crossman (Wodehouse serial) (illustrator). First Edition. The April 13 & 27, and June 22, 1929 issues of Collier's The National Weekly. Fiction and articles include parts 2, 4, & 12 (conclusion) of 12 of Summer Lightning (Fish Preferred), a Blandings Castle novel by P G Wodehouse, Excuse MY Clouds (4/13), an article about the rise of private airplanes as a transportation alternative by W B Courtney, The Iron Handshaker (4/13), an article about Jack Dempsey as a promoter by Grantland Rice, Teeing Off with Babe Ruth (4/13), an article about how golf reveals the character of Babe Ruth by Al Demaree, Reuben the Artist (4/13), an article about the life and work of Rube Goldberg by Ring Lardner, Who Killed Montague Brest (4/27), a Sir Jasper Slane story by E Phillips Oppenheim, The Somebody Man (4/27), an ethnic themed story by Roark Bradford, The Imperfect Alibi (6/22), a Sir Jasper Slane story by E Phillips Oppenheim, part 8 of 12 of The Day the World Ended (6/22), a novel of sinister intrigue by Sax Rohmer and others. Condition issues include: 4/13 - soiling to the front cover, most prominent at the upper right with a little at the lower left, a 1" closed tear at the top center of the front cover that diminishes through page 8, a ragged 2.25" half moon shaped chip at the top left of the front cover that diminishes through page10, soiling along the spine of the back cover and .25" of the top corner of the spine is cut off; 4/27 - light edge wear to the front cover; and 6/22 - nothing significant. Overall a good to very good set with serial installments by a prominent and collectible authors. Heavy, oversize set that will require additional postage.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. FIRST EDITION. Quarto (30 x 22cm), pp.180. Publisher's printed paper wraps, stapled. Paper toned, staples rusted, covers a little marked and worn, some nibbling to top outer corner of the last few pages. A rare survival. Very good. A. A. Milne provides his version of this classic tale with illustrations by E. H. Shepard.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good-. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. First Edition. (1944) 352 pp. Original dark brown cloth covers w/ gilt title on tan cloth spine. Binding lightly rubbed. Bottom corners bumped; spine darkened. Top edge gilt; light foxing to edges of text block. "The World Publishing Company, With the Season's Greetings" card tipped-in on half-title page. #191 of 500 copies. This is the first appearance of James M. Cain's "The Girl in the Storm." Contents nice.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. The first inaugural issue of Esquire published in October 1933. With 36 features in full color. Light shelf wear; interior clean and fresh; uncommon is such nicely preserved condition.

Original two-page contract agreement from the 1946 film noir, amending and supplementing an agreement between starring actress Lilli Palmer and then-president of United States Pictures Joseph Bernhard, and signed by both in manuscript ink on the second leaf. Dated "April 8th" in manuscript ink on the first leaf, and a date of 5/10/46 typed on the second leaf. Small notary blindstamp on the first leaf. The first film released by short-lived studio United States Pictures, and the first of the studio's two films noir, the other being "The Enforcer" (1951, with Humphrey Bogart). Director Fritz Lang was already an established noir authority, having previously directed "M" (1931), "Fury" (1936), and "The Big Heat" (1953). Two leaves, stapled and hole-punched at the top, 8.5 x 11 inches, ribbon copy typescript, rectos only. Very Good plus overall, with light toning, diagonal creases, and faint 'I.M.P." blindstamps to both leaves. Grant Worldwide. Olive Films. Selby Classic Noir. Signed.