Ring Lardner
The Portable Ring Lardner.
The Viking Press, 1946. The Viking Portable Library, 25. First printing. Edited and with an introduction by Gilbert Seldes. vii/756 pages.
Volume, measuring approximately 4.5" x 7", is bound in yellow cloth, with gilt-lettered green spine label, above green lettering, and yellow-lettered green title panel to front cover. Book is in exellent condition, with edges of text block tinted green. Dust jacket displays wear, with loss at the lower outside corner of bottom spine edge, and minor closed tears/loss at edges. Jacket is now preserved in paper-backed mylar cover.
This anthology presents two complete books, "You Know Me Al," "The Big Town," as well as stories, plays, parodies, essays, commentaries, and newspaper columns by US sports and short story writer Ringgold Wilmer "Ring" Lardner (1885-1933).