Lardner Ring John (36 results)

paperback. Condition: Good. Good paperback, bumped/creased with shelfwear; may have previous owner's name inside. Standard-sized.

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: 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.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. James Stevenson; (illustrator). First Edition. (xii) 388 pp. Please note, this is a very heavy book and, depending where in the world you are, the shipping might be higher than normal. Quarter-bound in green cloth on beige boards; decorated in gilt on the spine; headband; green upper edge. Some wear at the corners of the dustjacket with a few short tears around the edges; price clipped; no interior markings. Illustrated with drawings by James Stevenson. There are far too many writers and articles here to list them all but some of the highlights are: Foreword by Peter V. Ueberroth; The Web of the Game by Roger Angell; Who's on First? - Anonlymous; The Grip by Jim Bouton; The Extinction of the .400 Hitter by Stephen Jay Gould; Shoeless Joe Jackson Comes to Iowa by W. P. Kinsella; A Busher's Letters Home by Ring Lardner; Lines Composed in Exaltation Over the North Atlantic by James Michener; La Vie en Rose by Pete Rose; Josh - The Black Babe Ruth, or was Ruth the White Josh Gibson by Robert Peterson; My Baseball Years by Philip Roth; Pick-up Game by John Sayles; No Jury Would Convict by Irwin Shaw; Howard Ehmke by Red Smith; The Silent Season of a Hero - Joe DiMaggion by Gay Talese; Franks Chance's Diamond - Why Ring Lardner Soured on Baseball by Jonathan Yardley; and many, many more. Size: 8vo. Book.

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.

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.

Hardcover. Condition: Good.

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: Good. Torn/worn dj. Good hardcover with some shelfwear; may have previous owner's name inside. Standard-sized.

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 .

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Printing - First Thus. (xiii) 361 pp. Burgundy boards lettered in gilt on the spine; headband. Light rubbing at the corners of the dustjacket; previous owner's inscription on the front free endpaper. There are far too many articles to list them all here but some of the highlights are: Tinker to Evers to Chance by Franklin P. Adams; Baseball in Mumford's Pasture Lot by Samuel Hopkins Adams; from Hello Towns - Perhaps Someone Like Babe Ruth Was at Bat by Sherwood Anderson; 1975: Boston Red Sox 7, Cincinnati Reds 6: The Spectacular Sixth Game of the World Series by Roger Angell; They're Afraid to Come Out - The Mets by Jimmy Breslin; 1923: New York Yankees 4, New York Giants 2: The Ruth Is Mighty and Shall Prevail by Heywood Broun; The Fabulous Satchel Paige by Richard Donovan; 1941: New York Yankees 4, Cleveland Indians 3: The End of Dimaggio's Hitting Streak by John Drebinger; from Father and Son: A Letter to Connie Mack by James T. Farrell; The Day I Batted Against Castro by Don Hoak with Myron Cope; The 1934 All STar Game: Fanning Ruth, Gehrig, Foxx, Simmons, Cronin by Carl Hubbell as told to John P. Carmichael; braves 10, giants 9: Small Type Used on Purpose by Shirley Jackson; The Unbelievable Babe Herman: He Didn't Triple into a Triple Play, Not Quite by John Lardner; Alibi Ike by Ring W. Lardner; Game Called - Babe Ruth is Dead - poetry by Grantland Rice; from Baseball Has Done It: I Have Grievances, Sir by Jackie Robinson; 1965: Los Angeles Dodgers 1, Chicago Cubs 0: The Radio Account of the Ninth Inning of Sandy Koufax's Perfect Game by Vin Scully; 1951: New York Giants 5, Brooklyn Dodgers 4: Bobby Thomson and the Miracle by Red Smith; The Pitcher and the Plutocrat by P. G. Wodehouse; and many, many more. Size: 8vo. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. 352 pp. Blue boards lettered in gilt on the spine; headband. Lightly rubbed on the corners of the dustjacket; price intact; no interior markings. Writing by: Roger Maris; Yogi Berra; Joe DiMaggio; Casey Stengel; Jane Leavy; Whitey Ford; Jim Bouton; Sparky Lyle; Craig Nettles; Lou Piniella; Dave Winfield; Tommy John; Jack Chesbro; Frederic P. O'Connell; Donald Dewey; Nicholas Acocella; Rng Lardner; J. J. Ward; Grantland Rice; Frank Graham; Damon Runyon; Waite Hoyt; Heywood Broun; Billy Evans; F. C. Lane; Jonathan Eig; Leo Trachtenberg; Robert W. Creamer; Chet Williamson; Richard Ben Cramer; Arthur O. Anderson; Gene Schoor; Roger Angell; and a host of others. Size: 8vo. Book.

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.

Condition: VG, G Dust Jacket.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good+ dj. Illustrated by (cover design) Steven Hoffman (illustrator). First Edition. [no discernible wear to book; the jacket is very lightly scuffed and soiled, with a couple of short closed tears at the bottom corners of the front panel]. (The American Drama Library) Series An anthology of three plays written by George S. Kaufman, in collaboration: "June Moon" (1929; with Ring Lardner); "Bravo!" (1948, with Edna Ferber); and "The Late George Apley" (1944, with John P. Marquand). Preface by Kaufman's daughter, Anne Kaufman Schneider, who describes her father as "like a chameleon, taking on all the colorations of his collaborators, while keeping his own identity all the way through each work." Uncommon in the hardcover issue.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Good. Signed by one of the Hollywood Ten on the title page: "Ring Lardner, Jr. (for the 10)" in blue ballpoint pen. Mild creases or bends to some pages. Toning and fading to covers. Association Inscription.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Julian Brazleton (illustrator). 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. Book.

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.