first edition Hardcover
1916 · New York
by Lardner, Ring
New York: George H. Doran Company, 1916. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. First edition, first issue binding. 247 pp. Bound in publisher's crimson cloth with gilt lettering, black stamped illustration. Very Good, lacking jacket. Clean, bright pages; hinges a bit tender, gilt one spine darkened; foxing to top edge. Slight lean. An epistolary novel of a baseball player's coming of age. Lardner's paired-down, vernacular prose style was extremely influential.
(Inventory #: 151120001)