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Lardner, Ring W.. The Love Nest; and Other Stories. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1926.
Price: US$11.25 + shipping
Description: 8vo. Bound in dark green cloth with gilt lettering to front board and spine. Light edgewear and rubbing to extremities, owner's plate to ffep; good+.
Seller: BISON BOOKS - ABAC/ILAB, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
Price: US$15.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 5 1/4 x 7 1/2 inches. xvi, 232 pages. Condition is Very Good, spine titles faded, top one inch of ffep torn off, text is very clean, binding is tight. STK
Seller: Andre Strong Bookseller, Blue Hill, ME, U.S.A.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Description: New York, NY: Charles Scribner's Sons. Very good condition-endpapers yellowed, spine title faded/No Dustjacket. 1926. 8vo., 232 pp. . Very good condition-endpapers yellowed, spine title faded/No Dustjacket
Seller: Riverow Bookshop, Owego, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Green cloth hardcover boards with gilt lettering. Spine faded; pages with light age toning; previous owner's inscription inside. Ringgold Wilmer "Ring" Lardner (1885 – 1933) was an American sports columnist and short-story writer best known for his satirical writings on sports, marriage, and the theatre. His contemporaries Ernest Hemingway, Virginia Woolf, and F. Scott Fitzgerald all professed strong admiration for his writing.
Seller: Hudson River Book Shoppe, Waldwick, NJ, U.S.A.
LARDNER, Ring W.. The Love Nest and Other Stories.. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1926.
Price: US$25.00 + shipping
Description: With an Introduction by Sarah E. Spooldripper. xvi [1] 232 pp. 8vo, original cloth (lacking dust jacket). First edition. Bruccoli & Layman A19.I. A bit shelf-slanted; some rubbing to cloth; very good.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Lardner, Ring. The Love Nest and Other Stories. Charles Scribner's Sons, NY, 1926.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The jacket has the original price of $1.75 present but is quite chipped at the spine ends with a chunk missing from the bottom. There is an inscription on the front flyleaf that seems to be non authorial.
Seller: Gaabooks, West New York, NJ, U.S.A.
Lardner, Ring. Love Nest and Other Stories. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1926.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 232 pages. Corners rubbed. Top edge of front cover rubbed through. Back strip spotted and gilt lettering faded. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Seller: Village Booksmith, Hudson Falls, NY, U.S.A.
LARDNER, Ring W.. The Love Nest and Other Stories. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1926.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition. Gilt-stamped green cloth. Introduction by Sarah E. Spooldripper. Rear hinge starting, cloth a bit mottled, gilt on spine faded, thus good only, lacking the dustwrapper.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Lardner, Ring W.. The Love Nest and Other Stories. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1926.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Binding very good+ with moderate dullness to spine gilt. No markings to internals (232pgs). Cartoon jacket shows wear all edges with loss of paper at all corners; bottom spine chipped across with loss of bottom half of first "s" in scribner's. Entire jacket is slightly soiled. $1.75 price is intact.
Seller: All Booked Up, Louisville, KY, U.S.A.
Price: US$44.91 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 267 pages all original 1926 1st edition (image 1) HB 14 x 20 cm in slate green cloth spine gilt (image 2). Contents image 3. [All the Sad Young Men is the third collection of nine short stories (image 3) written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, published by Scribners in February 1926. Fitzgerald wrote the stories at a time of disillusionment. He was in financial difficulty, he believed his wife Zelda was romantically involved with another man, she had suffered a series of physical illnesses, and his play The Vegetable had been a failure. The book was dedicated to Ring and Ellis Lardner, who were neighbors at the time the book was published]. Scarce in 1st edition. Very faint pencil ownership inscription "Dora Black" (image 4). Could this be the Dora, Countess Russell, née Black; 1894 – 1986.? A British author, a feminist and socialist campaigner, and the second wife of the philosopher Bertrand Russell. She was a campaigner for Contraception and Peace. She worked for the UK-government-funded Moscow newspaper British Ally, and in 1958 she led the "Women's Peace Caravan" across Europe during the Cold War.
Seller: The Sanctuary Bookshop., Lyme Regis, United Kingdom
Lardner, Ring.. The Love Nest and Other Stories.. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1926.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Printing. A Fine copy, with one tiny abrasion to top rear gutter, else fresh and unworn, gilt bright. Lacking the scarce dustwrapper. 232pp. Short stories. Q09609
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Description: Small 8vo. Black blind-embossed wood-grain cloth with gilt lettering. x, 359pp. Frontispiece. Very good. Homely spot near top of outer page edges. A tight and attractive early printing of this 1924 how-to in uncommon and delightful faux binding.
Seller: Main Street Fine Books & Mss, ABAA, Galena, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1926. Nine stories by the American humourist; a Very Good copy of the First Edition. Green cloth binding with titling in gilt on the spine; gilt facsimile signature of the author on the front cover. Clean text; xvi, 232 pages; very bright and fresh. Mild rubbing to the tips; spine slightly fadsed, with the gilt somewhat dulled. Lacking a dustjacket. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
Seller: Quercus Rare Books, Chico, CA, U.S.A.
LARDNER, Ring W.. The Golden Honeymoon and Haircut. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1926.
Price: US$82.50 + shipping
Description: First Printing. Octavo (19cm); black cloth backstrip over red cloth paper covered boards; illustrated endpapers/cover by Maynard Freeman; 54pp. Spine ends lightly pushed; minor scuffs to front board and tiny bump to lower rear board; Very Good+, lacking dustjacket. Two short stories- also includes first appearance of ABA lecture by Lardner: "It was a great big surprise to me to be called on this evening for a talk or any other evening. The topic assigned to me is "How to Sell Books." (from the introduction).
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Just a hint of wear, and slight soil/fading top rear edge. ; Black cloth back and illustrated red paper over boards; frontis portrait of Lardner and Gene Buck; illustrated pastedowns and endpapers, with no attribution, and at press time, no referance found. If not by John Held, Jr. , then certainly in the style. ; 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 54 pages
Seller: G.F. Wilkinson Books, member IOBA, GRASS VALLEY, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 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.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$110.00 + shipping
Description: First Printing. Octavo (19cm); green boards titled in gilt on the cover and spine; dustjacket Margaret Freeman; 232pp.; spine ends are pushed, else a Fine copy. The dustjacket is unclipped (priced $1.75); chipping to the upper panels and spine; tears to the extremities; loss to the crown; toning to the spine; splitting along spine; Good only. "The Love Nest is that of Mr. Gregg, the great movie magnate, and his wife, a former movie star. The story is of a visit paid to it by a young journalist for the sake of writing up the great man's idyllic home life." (from the dustjacket); BRUCCOLI and LAYMAN A19.1.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Duodecimo; pp; (vi), 115-141, (iii), 31-54; frontispiece photograph of Lardner, with cartoons by Maynard Freeman; quarter black cloth and pictorial rose paper covered boards lettered in black, pictorial endpapers; issued without jacket; The first appearance of Lardner's lecture to the ABA on "How to Sell Books," in which he speaks of F. Scott Fitzgerald; this volume marks the first separate appearance of two previously published Lardner short stories.
Seller: Austin's Antiquarian Books, Wilmington, VT, U.S.A.
Ring W, Lardner. The Love Nest and Other Stories. charles Scribner's Sons New York, 1926.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Scribner's, New York, 1926. Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine, no Dust Jacket First edition. solid, unmarked though slight stain to dark green cover with gold signature
Seller: Suibhne's Rare and Collectible Books, Newbury, OH, U.S.A.
Lardner, Ring.. The Love Nest and Other Stories.. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1926.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Printing. Very Good in dark green cloth (spine darkened), in a Very Good or better dustwrapper, not price-clipped, with wear to points, tape mends to verso of crown. 232pp. Much better than usually found dustwrapper. Q19914
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.