first edition Hardcover
1926 · St. Louis
by LARDNER, Ring
St. Louis: American Booksellers Association, 1926. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition. Octavo. 54pp. Frontispiece portrait of the author. Quarter black cloth and red pictorial paper-covered boards. Some foxing on the title page else a very good copy, issued without printed dust jacket. Issued for distribution at the American Booksellers Association convention in St. Louis on May 13, 1926. The first appearance in print of Ring Lardner's lecture to the ABA on "How to Sell Books," following by the first separate appearance of two previously published short stories by Lardner. (Inventory #: 470076)