Introduction Ring Lardner (27 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. box 25 5½"x7½"; 239 pages; The binding and pages are clean, tight and square. There is no underlining, highlighting or margin notes. A used copy with normal reading wear. If you order multiple titles, I will combine them in order to reduce postage costs. If you have any questions, contact me before ordering for details.

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.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Stated third printing. Illustrated blue and red cloth covers. No jacket. 1xvi, 25 pp. Introduction by Ring Lardner. A collection of various songs that can be sung in barber shop style, providing music and lyrics, as well as brief introductory tips to how each tune could be sung. With a beginning section on the principles and methods of barber shop singing. Songs include, Down Mobile, How Dry I Am, Carry me Back to Old Virginny, My Old Kentucky Home, Oh, Mah Lindy and many others. GOOD condition. General fading and scuffing to the covers. Rear cover rather soiled and smudged, with minor staining. Cloth scuffed and frayed along the extremities. Interior solid with the paper toned.

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.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Viking, 1946; first Viking Portable edition, with no additional printings indicated and appropriate copyright page text; 756pp. Binding is tight, sturdy, and square; corners of pale yellow cloth boards bumped, else very good; green and gilt titling remains brighta nd bold. Slight losses to ends of spine and corners of foldout dust jacket; a few small tears; toning to spine; rubbing to rear. Interior is free of previous owner markings. Ships same or next day from Dinkytown, Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. LIKE NEW. Unread. Might as well be new. xv, 609 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, facsimiles, music, portraits ; 24 cm. Has the usual Easton Press details: High quality genuine leather; 22kt gold inlaid design on front cover, spine with four raised bands and accented in 22kt gold -- gilt page edges; archival acid-neutral paper; Smyth-sewn; Illustrated end papers and sewn in satin ribbon book mark. . . . . . Ring Around the Bases: The Complete Baseball Stories of Ring Lardner, published by Easton Press in 1996, is a collection of 34 short stories that showcase Ring Lardner?s satirical and humorous take on baseball and American life in the early 20th century. Edited with an introduction by Matthew J. Bruccoli, this anthology captures Lardner?s insider perspective as a former Chicago sports reporter covering the Cubs and White Sox. The stories, including classics like ?Alibi Ike? and ?My Roomy,? explore the quirks, egos, and absurdities of baseball players, blending sharp dialogue, colorful characters, and witty wordplay. The collection also includes ?The Courtship of T. Dorgan,? an uncollected story added to make this the definitive compilation of Lardner?s baseball fiction.

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.

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Fine in original wrappers.

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.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Rockwell Kent (illustrator). Helen Sobell was married to Morton Sobell, convicted for spying for the USSR. Includes 3 illustrations by Rockwell Kent. Laid in is a mimeographed note indicating this is a review copy. 6" x 9", 20pp (unpag.). Printed on alkaline paper and saddle stitched in an uncoated printed card stock cover. There is a 1" x 1/2" water droplet stain at the top edge of the front cover. Otherwise, age discoloration, light soiling, light edge wear to cover, and the top fore corner is lifting. Staples are oxidized but binding remains strong and tight. Pages are gently age toned but clean and unmarked.

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: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

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: Fine. 609 pages, 8vo. Bound in full dark blue leather boards, gilt lettering along spine, gilt baseball design on front cover. Full gilt page edges, bound silk ribbon bookmark, illustrated inside covers and endpapers. Minor shelfwear. Tightly bound, no marks. Volume is in Fine condition.

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).

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.