The Story of a Wonder Man - Being the Autobiography of Ring Lardner de Lardner, Ring - 1927

Praeger, 1975. Hardcover. Good. Former library book; Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

ABC-CLIO, LLC. Used - Good. Ships from the UK. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1927. First edition. Hardcover. Good. 6 x 8 in. Green cloth boards. Condition is GOOD ; corners and spine ends bumped with light wear, covers have some spots, spine very toned. Binding tight and text unmarked. A few pgs have been badly cut. Fiction. Stax.

NY: Scribner's, 1927. Bound in green cloth, stamped in gold. The first edition of this autobiography by the popular author. Some offsetting to second free endpaper, but overall, a tight, clean copy of this 151 pp. book. . First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good +/No Jacket.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. Very Good. 1927. Hardcover. Illustrated by Margaret Freeman, clean, very good. .

NY: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1927. Hardcover. Very good. Hardcover. First Edition,. Bookplate on front pastedown, foxing to prelims, spine lettering dulled with some light wear to the extremities, else very good in publisher's green cloth.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1927 151 numbered pp. HB. Pages: clean, bright, tight, f.e. deckled; a.e. modestly tanned. Cover: dk green, gilt signature front, gilt titles spine; v light shelfwear, head/heel worn.

Paperback / softback. New.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1927. First Edition. . Hardcover. Very Good. Ring Lardner was a legendary sports reporter and short story writer active in the first part of the 20th century. His humorous, often satirical work earned him praise from, among others, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Virginia Woolf. This autobiography is, from the first word of the foreword by Sarah E. Spooldripper to a post mortem message at the end when Lardner describes the accident that resulted in his death by "stomach hake," a light-hearted but sharply witty biographical satire. First edition, later printing. About 5 1/2 x 7 3/4 inches, 151 pages in dark green cloth-covered boards with Lardner's name in gold on front cover and gold lettering on spine. B&w illustrations by Margaret Freeman. Sorry, no dustjacket. Lower corners of boards lightly bumped, lettering on spine slightly worn, o/w no tears, no chipping or scratching. Not ex-library, not remaindered. Text edges slightly… Leer más

Paperback / softback. New.