Smith Red Editor Ring Lardner (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 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. James Stevenson; (illustrator). Book. …

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Paperback Printing. (x) 298 pp. Lightly rubbed on the corners with an uncreased spine; no interior markings. Writing by: Ring Lardner; Frank O'Rourke; James Thurber; STanley Frank; Charles Francis Coe; Talbert Josselyn; Herbert M. Alexander; William Fay; Harry Stuhldreher; Pete Martin; Paul Gallico; J. P. Marquand; Corey Ford; George Harmon Coxe; and Richard Macaulay. Introduction by Red Smith. Book.…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good to Fine. First Edition By This Publisher. 298 pages."Contains 15 of the Original 22 stories; Here is baseball fiction at its best, headed by Lardner. boxing from the pens of Francis Coe & Josselyn. Football by Stuhldreher & Martin . Golf by Gallico & Tennis by Ford; Horse racing is represented by one of the leading novelists of out day Marquand." >>Cover scuffing; edge wear to covers; Size: 16mo - over 5¾ - 6¾" tall. Book. …

First Printing. Pocket Book 649. Near Fine to Fine condition.