Lardner Ring W Jr (24 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No markings. Darkening to the spine. Gouge to the spine with piece of cloth missing. Small loss of cloth at top of spine. Gaar Williams (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Clean interior with gift inscription, corners and spine have wear.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Exlibrary with usual library markings. ; 631 pages.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

HRD. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

DVD. Condition: Sehr gut. DVD AC-45H7-6OVC Altersfreigabe FSK ab 12 Jahre Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 82.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Later Edition. ISBN Hardback. Good to Very Good condition book with short tear to top edge of spine, some browning to edges of interior pages, edge wear in an about Good condition dustjacket with clear magic tape repair to reverse side mostly in the spine area, chips, tears, rubs and creases around its edges. Tight, sound, unmarked copy. No statement of later printing on copyright page. …

Paperback. Condition: New. Print on Demand. Embark on an extraordinary journey with this captivating memoir, a testament to the enduring bonds of family. A young boy recounts his unforgettable adventure from Chicago to Connecticut alongside his eccentric father and siblings, offering an unfiltered glimpse into the complexities of family dynamics during the Great Migration. The author's keen observations and delightful anecdotes paint a vivid portrait of 1920s America, revealing the struggles and triumphs of immigrant families. Through the boy's eyes, we witness the challenges and joys of navigating a new country while maintaining cultural traditions. This book is a poignant reminder of the power of family unity and the lasting impact of childhood experiences. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work, digitally reconstructed using state-of-the-art technology to preserve the original format. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in the book. print-on-demand item.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good minus. First Edition. A good minus copy in paper boards with black art work; most of the spine paper is missing.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Literary Classics Edition xiv, 655 p. illus. (facsim) 17 cm. LCCN 43051076 OCLC 944648 LC PS507 .W64 Dewey 810.82 ; grey-green boards with blue designs and lettering, in color dustjacket ; Contents: [1.] American fiction. The devil and Daniel Webster/ Stephen Vincent Bene?t -- Tom Whipple / Walter D. Edmonds -- The murders in the Rue Morgue / Edgar Allan Poe -- Missionary journeys / Willa Cather -- The duke and the daupin come aboard / Mark Twain -- The outcasts of Poker Flat / Bret Harte -- A preacher goes to war / John W. Thomason, Jr -- Uncle Remus / Joel Chandler Harris -- A last will / Williston Fish -- One arrowhead day / Harry Leon Wilson -- The skylight room / O. Henry -- Rupe Collins / Booth Tarkington -- Our new telephone / Ruth Gordon -- Some like them cold / Ring Lardner -- At the end of the car line / Ben Hur Lampman -- The Japanese / Ogden Nash -- Fifty grand / Ernest Hemingway -- The waltz / Dorothy Parker -- You mean common / Arthur Kober -- Address Unknown / Kressman Taylor. -- [2.] American verse. -- Paul Revere's ride / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- The Concord hymn / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Death and General Putnam / Arthur Guiterman -- Home, Sweet Home / John Howard Payne -- To Helen / Edgar Allan Poe -- Annabel Lee / Edgar Allan Poe -- Battle hymn of the republic / Julia Ward Howe -- Nancy Hanks / Rosemary Bene?t -- Ethiopia saluting the colors / Walt Whitman -- As toilsome I wandered Virginia's woods / Walt Whitman -- Little boy blue / Eugene Field -- The last leaf / Oliver Wendell Holmes -- A visit from St. Nicholas / Clement C. Moore -- American laughter / Kenneth Allan Robinson -- Plain language from truthful James / Bret Harte -- Little Willie / Eugene Field -- The mystery of Gilgal / John Hay -- I hear America singing / Walt Whitman -- The old man and Jim / James Whitcomb Riley -- John L. Sullivan, the strong boy of Boston / Vachel Lindsay -- Afternoon on a hill / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Miniver Cheevy / Edwin Arlington Robinson -- I have a rendezvous with death / Alan Seeger -- my sweet old etcetera / e. e. cummings -- Two-volume novel / Dorothy Parker -- Abraham Lincoln walks at midnight / Vachel Lindsay -- The maid-servant at the inn / Dorothy Parker -- The death of the hired man / Robert Frost -- Lament / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Mending wall / Robert Frost -- Early moon / Carl Sandburg -- Stopping by woods on a snowy evening / Robert Frost -- Grass / Carl Sandburg -- Shenandoah Road / E.B. White -- Aged four / Mildred Focht -- Mr. Flood's party / Edwin Arlington Robinson -- To fight aloud is very brave / Emily Dickinson -- Song in exile / Alice Duer Miller -- Scum o' the earth / Robert Haven Schauffler -- My city / James Weldon Johnson -- Farewell, my friends / Clarence Day. -- [3.] American fact. -- The declaration of independence -- A letter from Franklin to Washington -- Under a cloud of sail / Richard Henry Dana -- Where I lived and what I lived for / Henry David Thoreau -- The hunting camp / Francis Parkman -- The only one / Maude Barnes Miller -- The death of John Quincy Adams / Carl Sandburg -- For us, the living / Alexander Woollcott -- The second inaugural address / Abraham Lincoln -- The Confederate army / John W. Thomason, Jr -- The first G.A.R. parade / Lloyd Lewis -- Three speeches / Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr -- The Trawnbeighs / Charles M. Flandrau -- Thanksgiving proclamation / Wilbur L. Cross -- Mary White / William Allen White -- A wedding notice from the Fountain inn tribune / Robert Quillen -- A letter from Nicola Sacco to his son -- Mon pays / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- Coon hunt / E.B. White --A visit to London / Frank Sullivan -- The turtle / Ogden Nash -- The Norse travel again / W.L. White -- First fig / Edna St. Vincent Millay -- A talk to young men / Robert C. Benchley -- P.S. he got the job / Anonymous -- The new colossus / Emma Lazarus -- Inscription on the tomb of the unknown soldier ; FINE/VG. Julian Brazleton (illustrator). Book.…

Bobbs-Merrill: Indianapolis (1920). Illus, by Gaar Williams, 7.5x5", pict boards, 86pp, end papers toned, covers moderately worn and yellowed, spine ends frayed, minor spot to cover. FIRST EDITION.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First edition. Near fine in internally repaired fair only dustwrapper lacking much of the spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo. Bobbs-Merrill, Indianapolis, IN. 1920. 86 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities (chip present to the crown of the DJ spine, back of the DJ is reinforced with cello tape). Bound in pictorial paper covered boards with titles present to the spine. Boards have light wear present to the extremities of the boards. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. "The owner of the copyright guarantees that this book was not written by Sir James M. Barrie. It is the unaided effort of an author who was four years old when Miss Daisy Ashford was born" (dust jacket flap). The story of family trips via car, steamer and railroad from Goshen. Indiana, to Greenwich, Connecticut. E-158; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 86 pages.…

Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition. Original illustrated brown cloth, erasure mark on front free endpaper, bookplate of a famous collector on front pastedown, some pages with a few smudges, overall very good. First edition of Ring W. Lardner's first book. Illustrated by Fontaine Fox. One of 500 copies. Illustrated, Fontaine Fox (illustrator). …

PAPER BACK black/green. Condition: GOOD. AUTUMN. PREMIER FIRST ISSUE VOLUME I, NUMBER 1 PUBLISHED QUARTERLY AND STILL IN MONTHLY PUBLICATION black/green colored illustrated magazine cover;36 features in full color; Please inquire if you need another edition in better condition. Dated October 13, 1933 DATE PUBLISHED: 1933 EDITION: AUTUMN 119. SEEHAUSEN,G.; TREBILCOCK, P. (illustrator). …

86 pp. Portraits by Gaar Williams. 8vo, publisher's decorated paper-covered boards in dust jacket. First edition. Better than very good, with some light wear at the head and heel of the spine, in a jacket with a large chip to the rear panel, completed in facsimile, with internal tape repairs.

86 pp. Portraits by Gaar Williams. 8vo, publisher's decorated paper-covered boards in illustrated dust jacket. First edition. A lovely copy, very near fine; in a dust jacket very slightly tanned at the backstrip with shallow chipping and one tiny (1/4") chip at its head.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Near Fine. First edition. Preface by the Father. Portraits by Gaar Williams. 12mo. Pictorial paper-covered boards. Very small chip at the crown, strip of offset browning on flyleaves, else a fine, bright copy in near fine dust jacket with slightly tanned spine and small nicks and tears. An elusive book in dust jacket, especially in this condition.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Tan clothbound without a dustjacket. Exterior is clean (small surface tear on rear) with light rubbing and clear graphics/title block. Edges are square except bottom of spine is lightly bumped. Interior is very clean with v fresh text and illustrations. Binding is strong and tight. Preface by "the Father." Photo requests are encouraged. Gaar Williams (illustrator).…

First Edition. Gaar Williams dustjacket and cover art. Lardner's humorous short work of "Young Bill, his father and his beautiful mother [who] moved via automobile, Erie Lake Steamer and New York, New Haven & Hartford R. R. from Goshen, Indiana, to Greenwich, Connecticut". Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket.…

First Edition. First edition. Lardner's spoof of Daisy Ashford's juvenilia, "The Young Visitors," published under the name of his then four-year-old son, "with a preface by the father." The book chronicles the Lardner family's move from Goshen, Indiana, to their new home in Greenwich, Connecticut. Near fine with only light wear to spine ends; in good to very good dust jacket with spine a little tanned and rubbed and showing a 1/4" hole. …

Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First Edition. Original printed paper-covered boards, near fine, no writing or signatures, slight foxing, two small labels on bottom of read pastedown. In very good dust jacket with some minor tape re-enforcements at the folds. Scarce in this nice condition. Illustrations by Gaar Williams. Gaar Williams (illustrator). …