Young Immigrunts by Lardner Ring (20 results)

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No markings. Darkening to the spine. Gouge to the spine with piece of cloth missing. Small loss of cloth at top of spine. Gaar Williams (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Clean interior with gift inscription, corners and spine have wear.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. 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. Gaar Williams: (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Later Edition. ISBN Hardback. Good to Very Good condition book with short tear to top edge of spine, some browning to edges of interior pages, edge wear in an about Good condition dustjacket with clear magic tape repair to reverse side mostly in the spine area, chips, tears, rubs and creases around its edges. Tight, sound, unmarked copy. No statement of later printing on copyright page. …

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 8vo.decorated paper boards.very good with a little edge wear.1st Edition.name one f.e.p.(H1/5).

Hardcover. Condition: Good minus. First Edition. A good minus copy in paper boards with black art work; most of the spine paper is missing.

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. 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.

86 pp. Portraits by Gaar Williams. 8vo, publisher's decorated paper-covered boards in dust jacket. First edition. Better than very good, with some light wear at the head and heel of the spine, in a jacket with a large chip to the rear panel, completed in facsimile, with internal tape repairs.

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. 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. …