The early 20th century comedic journalist writes about the War to End all Wars. Ring Lardner's wry skills were not confined to writing about baseball. In 1918 he headed to France on assignment for Colliers to cast a Lardneresque eye on the Great War. At the same time he created a new wartime series of letters from the pen of his most famous fictional character, Jack O'Keefe, who traded in his baseball flannels for military drab. This title puts together two of his works from this era - "My Four Weeks in France" and "Treat ...
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The early 20th century comedic journalist writes about the War to End all Wars. Ring Lardner's wry skills were not confined to writing about baseball. In 1918 he headed to France on assignment for Colliers to cast a Lardneresque eye on the Great War. At the same time he created a new wartime series of letters from the pen of his most famous fictional character, Jack O'Keefe, who traded in his baseball flannels for military drab. This title puts together two of his works from this era - "My Four Weeks in France" and "Treat 'Em Rough: Letters from Jack the Kaiser Killer" - to introduce the wit, wisdom and whimsy of Ring Lardner to a new generation of readers.
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Very Good. Very Good condition. Very Good dust jacket. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp. Bundled media such as CDs, DVDs, floppy disks or access codes may not be included.
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Fine in Fine jacket. Neither ex-lib nor remainder. Hardcover in off-white wraps with b/w photos of WWI aviators and of Larnder to front, large 8vo. xii + 332pp. Fine/Fine. Book and jacket are as new: bright, tight, sharp and unmarked. Jacket in Brodart.
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Very Good. Hardcover with dust jacket, full number line, tight, pages clear and bright, shelf and edge wear, corners bumped, packaged in cardboard box for shipment, tracking on U.S. orders.
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Guildford, Connecticut USA: The Lyons Press: Imprint of Globe Pequot Press, 2003. First edition, first printing, 2003. Gray hardcover with black spine, gilt spine lettering, 332 pages, illustrated dustjacket. The book is in very good condition with some light fingerprints at outer edges of both covers, sound text block, good hinges, clean pages with no names or other markings. The mylar protected dustjacket is not priceclipped and is in very good, new-looking condition. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall.
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