Shut Explained by Lardner Ring (7 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Former library book; Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Inscription in ink. Half-dollar sized chip to jacket on spine. Price-clipped.

Hard cover. First edition. 277 p. 22 cm. Very good in good dust jacket. book is near fine with no ownership marks, Scribner "A" for first edition, dustjacket (Good) has moderate shelf wear, not price clipped, some small chips to the dustjacket at spine ends, mild fading to spine area.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Short stories. Later printing. Black cloth covers lightly rubbed, corners and spine ends bumped. Dust jacket rubbed and worn, light soil, moderate edge wear with one corner chip, price clipped, in mylar cover. Interior clean and tight.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 277 pp. Designation "A" on copyright page, indicating first edition. Minor shelf and handling wear. Head and foot of spine and corners and edges of boards lightly bumped/rubbed. Faint soiling to text block. Light soiling and mild wear to dust jacket. Sun-fading to spine; small tape-repair to inside of dust jacket, resulting in small area of dj discoloration near base of spine and front cove.; Dust jacket is now enclosed in a (removable) protective mylar cover.

Dust Jacket Condition: dj. First Edition. First edition. Clipped signature from a check SIGNED BY LARDNER pasted at head of front endpaper with inscription below signed by Lardner's son: "To Larrry Barsten,/ With warm regards and/ gratitude. The above signature/ (from a canceled check)/ makes you the owner of/ the only autographed copy/ of this book in existence./ Ring Lardner Jr." Selection of Lardner's work edited and with introductions by Babette Rosmond and Henry Morgan, and with a special introduction by Lardner's fictional character "Sarah E. Spooldripper" (whose "mind was virtually blank. It was part of her charm"). Very good to near fine with corners gently bumped and light foxing to fore edge of text block slightly extending to margins of several pages; in good dust jacket with background coloring on spine and along front panel faded but lettering still bright; small chips, scuffs, creases, and tears; and paper tapped inside spine ends (filling in chips there). Signed.