Introduction by Ring Lardner (19 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. x, 198 pages, illustrations; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. Fine DJ. *** "Ring Lardner, Jr.'s memoir is a pilgrimage through the American century. The son of an immensely popular and influential writer, Lardner grew up swaddled in material and cultural privilege. After a memorable visit to Moscow in 1934, he worked as a reporter in New York before leaving for Hollywood where he served a bizarre apprenticeship with David O. Selznick, and won, at the age of 28, an Academy Award for Woman of the Year, the first on-screen pairing of Spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn. In 'irresistibly readable' pages (New Yorker), peopled by a cast including Carole Lombard, Louis B. Mayer, Dalton Trumbo, Marlene Dietrich, Otto Preminger, Darryl F. Zanuck, Bertolt Brecht, Bert Lahr, Robert Altman, and Muhammad Ali, Lardner recalls the strange existence of a contract screenwriter in the vanished age of the studio systeman existence made stranger by membership in the Hollywood branch of the American Communist Party. Lardner retraces the path that led him to a memorable confrontation with the House Un-American Activities Committee and thence to Federal prison and life on the Hollywood blacklist. One of the lucky few who were able to resume their careers, Lardner won his second Oscar for the screenplay to M.A.S.H. in 1970." - Publisher. Size: 8vo.

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.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition.

Condition: As New. Unread copy in mint condition.

Condition: New. Brand New.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good in Good dust jacket. Black cloth backed hardcover with color illustrated paper over covers, some wear to cover corners, clean, tightly bound; former owenr's small maling label on front paste-board, and unmarked copy with clean pages. Dust jacket shows wear and tear, some soiling . New edition with new pictures and verses.

1st printing with matching 1926 dates on title page & copyright page, previous owner's inscription on front endppaer, book quite worn, cloth missing at tope edge of the spine, FAIR only in green cloth covered boards, no dust jacket. 1st edition.

HARDCOVER. Condition: Very Good. Illustrated by Nice Photo of Each Author (illustrator). Third Edition. VERY GOOD Condition .Gold spine & cover titles on red cloth hard covers. ,clean, solid, bright; Gold spine & cover titles on dark red hard covers.Vanella endpapers. ; 290pg pages; Popular Authors Short Stories.each with nice glossy photo of the AUTHOR.

HARDCOVER. Condition: Good. Illustrated by Nice Photo of Each Author (illustrator). First Edition. GOOD Condition .Gold spine & cover titles on red cloth hard covers. ; 290pg pages; Popular Authors Short Stories.each with nice glosy photo of the AUTHOR.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket as issued. 1st Edition. First printing with complete number string. Toning to the inside covers as usual otherwise a firm, clean copy.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. revised rep edition. 190 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition. 5 1/4 x 7 1/2 inches. xvi, 232 pages. Condition is Very Good, spine titles faded, top one inch of ffep torn off, text is very clean, binding is tight. STK.

Black & White Illustrations (illustrator). Garden City, NY: Garden City Publishing Co. Good plus condition: tips and jacket worn, cover stained/No Dustjacket. (1945). 12mo., unpaginated . Good plus condition: tips and jacket worn, cover stained/No Dustjacket.

Unknown. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Clean pages. Moderate loosening to binding. This could have light cosmetic flaws, but remains in good condition. No dust jacket included with this book. Secure packaging for safe delivery.

leather_bound. Condition: Fine. As new, still sealed in publisher's shrinkwrap. Full navy leather with gilt decorative design, all edges gilt, satin ribbon marker, and silk moire endpapers; smyth-sewn and bound in top-grain leather with raised bands on spine; printed on specially milled acid-neutral paper. A beautiful book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Jacket by Harvey (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition, first impression. Some slight edge wear, some short closed tears and chipping to top and bottom of largely brick red jacket and spine, corners slightly rubbed and bruised, slight creasing to bottom inside flap, not price clipped (21s), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a vg+ copy for its age. 320pp. Twenty five stories by Ring Lardner, illustrating his ability to depict diverse aspects of turn of the century American life with insight and wit. Ringgold Wilmer Lardner (1885-1933), was an American sports columnist and short story writer best known for his satirical writings on sports, baseball, marriage and the theatre. His contemporaries, Ernest Hemingway, Virginia Woolf, and F. Scott Fitzgerald, all professed strong admiration for his writing and author John O'Hara directly attributed his understanding of dialogue to him. Sadly he died young from complications of tuberculosis, aged 48. Very scarce with jacket.

Full Leather. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Fine full leather edition, no names or bookplates. Very slight shelf wear. ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 609 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Foreward by Ring Lardner, Jr. 8vo. Bound in full navy blue leather stamped in gilt; raised spinal bands; all edges gilt. Satin ribbon. Unopened original cellophane wrapping with original cardboard shipping box. As new.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. (1945), New Edition with new pictures & verses; Very Good Plus/Good Plus dj, 12mo., unpaginated c130pp., color pictorial board hardcover, matching pictorial dj but price-clipped with several large chunks out, binding tight, some foxing particularly on endpapers o/w text unmarked, charming b&w illustration every-other page with accompanying humorous verse opposite, Presented & Signed on front free endpaper: "For Doug Carpenter, In spite of disagreements about practically everything - a very fine person. Roland Young.". Signed by Author(s).