Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Ring Lardner. Lose with a Smile. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1933.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1933. First Edition. Octavo. 174 pp. Green cloth stamped in gilt. No dust jacket. Boards show wear along edges with brief exposure to corners and top edge; a few punctures to front board and scratches to rear. Binding sound. Spotting to top edge of text block but pages otherwise unmarked.
Seller: Capitol Hill Books, ABAA, Washington, DC, U.S.A.
Lardner, Ring W.. LOSE WITH A SMILE. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1933.
Price: US$45.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition ("A"). 174 pages. 7.5x5.25 inches. Blue cloth with light blue printing. Covers are slightly soiled and rubbed, and the front hinge is starting. Otherwise, the contents are bright and complete. Near Very Good.
Seller: Hoffman Books, ABAA, IOBA, Columbus, OH, U.S.A.
LARDNER, Ring W.. Lose with a Smile. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1933.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. Gilt-stamped green cloth. A few pages with modest offsetting, front cover slightly bowed, spine a touch faded, about very good, lacking the dust jacket. A baseball novel.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
LARDNER, Ring W.. Lose with a Smile. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1933.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. Gilt-stamped green cloth. Contemporary owner's signature on front fly along with light offsetting, spine a touch faded, else very good, lacking the dustwrapper. More letters in the *You Know Me, Al* vein from a baseball player to his girlfriend.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
LARDNER, Ring. Lose With a Smile. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1933.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 174 pages. A humorous baseball novel from Lardner. A close to near fine copy in blue cloth boards with a tiny tear to the top of the spine in an about fair dust jacket with extensive tears to the front panel and some other chips and tears.
Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA, Wadsworth, IL, U.S.A.
Lardner, Ring. Lose With A Smile. Charles Scribner's Sons, 1933.
Price: US$115.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition, first printing "A" Charles Scribner's Sons 1933. Fine green cloth hardcover in a very good minus Brodart protected dust jacket. Square, bright and tight binding with gilt lettering. Dust jacket is sunned on cover.
Seller: Bradley Ross Books, Auburn, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$117.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1933. FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING with "A" and scribner seal on copyright page. Very Good+ in Very Good Dust Jacket.Tight binding; clean pages and covers; only very slight wear; dust jacket is clean and bright with a couple of small tears; slight trimming; price clipped. Baseball fiction. SEE OUR OTHER LISTINGS FOR MORE INTERESTING RARE AND COLLECTIBLE BOOKS. .
Seller: LaCelle Rare Books, Chadwick, MO, U.S.A.
Lardner, Ring. Lose With A Smile. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, New York, 1933.
Price: US$120.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Illustrated. 174pages. No golf. Baseball and romance, Blue cloth covers clean and bright. Pastedown offset, minor page toning else a nice clean copy. Slight fading and light wear to dust jacket edges. Dust jacket protected in mylar. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Antiquarian Golf, Pepperell, MA, U.S.A.
LARDNER, Ring W.. Lose with a Smile. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1933.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition. Baseball-set romance novel told through the letters between a rookie and a girl from his hometown. Near Fine in a Very Good price-clipped dustjacket, few short closed tears and modest shelf wear.
Seller: Babylon Revisited Rare Books, Northampton, MA, U.S.A.
Lardner, Ring. Lose with a Smile. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1933.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: A very nice copy of this scarce first edition in dust jacket. Book has light shelf wear and minor yellowing of pages. DJ has scant rubbing, a few small light wrinkles, light edge wear and very minor fading at spine.
Seller: Time Tested Books, Sacramento, CA, U.S.A.
LARDNER, Ring W.. Lose With A Smile. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1933.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition, Octavo, dark blue cloth over boards stamped in light blue. Epistolary novel of a baseball player and his girlfriend, drawing from actual events in baseball. Very good in very good dust jacket, some sun fading on spine.
Seller: Yesterday's Gallery, ABAA, East Woodstock, CT, U.S.A.
LARDNER, RING. Lose With a Smile. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1933.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First Edition. Tale of a rookie ballplayer in the big leagues told in letters with a girl in his home town, in the vein of You Know Me Al. Published in green, royal blue and navy cloth variants, no priority established. This copy is in royal blue cloth. Very near fine in the uncommon dustjacket with neatly repaired long tear across front panel and spine, else about very good, with moderate wear at spine ends, rubbing to spine panel and crease marks on front panel, price-clipped with $1.50 price stamped at top of front flap. Despite flaws, a very presentable copy.
Seller: Fireproof Books, MINNETONKA, MN, U.S.A.
Lardner, Ring W.. LOSE WITH A SMILE. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1933.
Price: US$250.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. A follow-up of sorts to his YOU KNOW ME, AL. Letters between a baseball rookie and a girl in his hometown. Very good to near fine with endpapers a little darkened and subtle rubbing to boards; in good to very good, price-clipped dust jacket with rubbed creasing along edges, scuff marks to front panel, spine slightly toned, and light soiling to rear panel.
Seller: Quill & Brush, member ABAA, Middletown, MD, U.S.A.
Lardner, Ring.. Lose With a Smile.. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1933.
Price: US$325.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Printing. About Fine in dark blue cloth, green dustwrapper, price-clipped, slight spine-fade. 174pp. Lardner's reprise of the style and subject matter of his earlier You Know Me, Al. Q19911
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
LARDNER, Ring W.. Lose with a Smile. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1933.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Fine in price-clipped and moderately spine-sunned else near fine dustwrapper. A pleasing copy of this baseball novel.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
LARDNER, RING. LOSE WITH A SMILE. , 1933.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Description: LARDNER, Ring. LOSE WITH A SMILE. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1933. First edition. 8vo, blue cloth-covered boards. Slight skewing of boards, and a few unobtrusive stains on edges of text does not much detract from this romance in letters between a rookie ballplayer and his hometown sweetheart, peopled with actual ballplayers and involving actual baseball events. Overall very good, in a slightly edgeworn, price-clipped jacket, sunned at the spine. (Bruccoli & Layman A25).
Seller: Boston Book Company, Inc. ABAA, Boston, MA, U.S.A.
LARDNER, Ring W.. Lose with a Smile. Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1933.
Price: US$550.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition. Fine in price-clipped else fine dustjacket. A very nice copy of this baseball novel.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.