Young Immigrunts by Lardner Ring, First Edition (13 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. Gaar Williams: (illustrator). 1st Edition. Dust jacket crudely repaired with masking tape at spine and flap folds, rubbed and chipped at edges and spine ends, protected in mylar cover. Well-bound, pictorial boards lightly soiled, rubbed at corners and spine ends, previous owner's book plate on rear paste down, endpapers tanning, clean, unmarked pages throughout. 1st edition.

Bobbs-Merrill: Indianapolis (1920). Illus, by Gaar Williams, 7.5x5", pict boards, 86pp, end papers toned, covers moderately worn and yellowed, spine ends frayed, minor spot to cover. FIRST EDITION.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. First edition. Near fine in internally repaired fair only dustwrapper lacking much of the spine.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. 8vo. Bobbs-Merrill, Indianapolis, IN. 1920. 86 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. DJ has shelf-wear present to the DJ extremities (chip present to the crown of the DJ spine, back of the DJ is reinforced with cello tape). Bound in pictorial paper covered boards with titles present to the spine. Boards have light wear present to the extremities of the boards. No ownership marks present. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. "The owner of the copyright guarantees that this book was not written by Sir James M. Barrie. It is the unaided effort of an author who was four years old when Miss Daisy Ashford was born" (dust jacket flap). The story of family trips via car, steamer and railroad from Goshen. Indiana, to Greenwich, Connecticut. E-158; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 86 pages.

hardcover. Condition: fine. Dust Jacket Condition: near fine. First. With A Preface by The Father. Illustrated by Gaar Williams. Small 8vo, pictorial boards, d.w. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merril, (1920). First Edition. Purportedly written by Lardner, Jr. at the age of 4.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 86 pages. First edition, first printing. One of only 6,000 books published. Illustrated by Gaar Williams. Ostensibly written by his 4 year-old son, it is a parody of the popular 1919 book The Young Visitors by 9 year-old Daisy Ashford, written by the father. With characteristic childish spelling errors and youthful vernacular intact, just as in Ashford's debut, this book humorously describes the angst of a cross-country family move. Near fine book with a touch of wear to the corners in a near fine dust jacket with a touch of wear to the corners and a 1 1/2" invisible closed tear to the bottom of the spine edge. A beautiful copy!

86 pp. Portraits by Gaar Williams. 8vo, publisher's decorated paper-covered boards in illustrated dust jacket. First edition. A lovely copy, very near fine; in a dust jacket very slightly tanned at the backstrip with shallow chipping and one tiny (1/4") chip at its head.

Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. 12mo, 86 pages; pictorial boards, pictorial dust jacket. Book is near fine, dust jacket is good+ with a 1 inch loss at foot of spine and small loss at front fold and along edges. Internally clean and bright.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First edition. Preface by the Father. Portraits by Gaar Williams. 12mo. Pictorial paper-covered boards. Very small chip at the crown, strip of offset browning on flyleaves, else a fine, bright copy in near fine dust jacket with slightly tanned spine and small nicks and tears. An elusive book in dust jacket, especially in this condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Published in Indianapolis by The Bobbs-Merrill Company in 1920. First Edition, with no statement of later printing. The book purportedly written by Lardner's young daughter with a preface by Lardner himself. A rare find. Book very good, minor discoloration on some pages. DJ very good.

First Edition. Gaar Williams dustjacket and cover art. Lardner's humorous short work of "Young Bill, his father and his beautiful mother [who] moved via automobile, Erie Lake Steamer and New York, New Haven & Hartford R. R. from Goshen, Indiana, to Greenwich, Connecticut". Near Fine in Very Good dustjacket.

First Edition. First edition. Lardner's spoof of Daisy Ashford's juvenilia, "The Young Visitors," published under the name of his then four-year-old son, "with a preface by the father." The book chronicles the Lardner family's move from Goshen, Indiana, to their new home in Greenwich, Connecticut. Near fine with only light wear to spine ends; in good to very good dust jacket with spine a little tanned and rubbed and showing a 1/4" hole.

Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Gaar Williams (illustrator). First Edition. First Edition. Original printed paper-covered boards, near fine, no writing or signatures, slight foxing, two small labels on bottom of read pastedown. In very good dust jacket with some minor tape re-enforcements at the folds. Scarce in this nice condition. Illustrations by Gaar Williams.