Own Your Own Home by Lardner, Ring W.; Fox, Fontaine (illustrator) - 1919

Kessinger Publishing, 2007. Paperback. Like New. Pages are clean and are not marred by notes or folds of any kind. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

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Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, [1919]. [4], 123 pages. Numerous drawings in the text by Fontaine Fox, who also illustrated the covers. Original paper-covered boards printed in red and black. 19.5 x 13 cm. Slight loss to the paper covering the rear joint from insect nibbling, else very good. Light wear to the spine ends with one letter of publisher's name rubbed away, spine a little sunned, slight browning to ends of spine and edges of covers, tiny split to one corner. Early gift inscription on front free endpaper, faint foxing to endpapers. Text leaves are a little toned, as expected, but clean. An attractive copy overall.FIRST EDITION. A collection of stories told as letters by a Chicago policeman, Fred A. Gross, to his brother Charley. Fred's epistles deal little with his professional life and instead "focus on efforts to get along with his middle-class neighbors in a Chicago suburb and his attempts to move up in society" (ANB). The stories were originally printed in “Red… Read More

Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1919. Hardcover; 8vo; 123 pages. FIRST EDITION. Paper hardcovers with red and black titles. Yellowing/browning covers, faded spine and edges. Head/tail edge of spine chipped/rubbed. Bumped corners and edges. The pages are yellowing but still clear and clean. P/--. First Edition. Hardcover. Poor/No Jacket. Illus. by Fox, Fontaine.

Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company, [1919]. First Edition. Small octavo (18.75cm.); original off-white pictorial boards printed in red and black; [4],123pp.; illus. At head of upper cover: "More Fun by Ring W. Lardner." Horizontal crack in middle of spine (appears to have been discretely repaired); spine and extremities a bit darkened and rubbed, faint dampstain to bottom edge of boards not affecting textblock. Still, an About Very Good copy. Apparently issued without dust jacket (BRUCCOLI & LAYMAN A9). Collection of humorous stories and sketches, all of which were originally published in the Red Book Magazine.