Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
Price: US$21.89 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: illustrated papered boards,123 pp, spine torn, cover chipped Standard shipping (no tracking) / Priority (with tracking) / Custom quote for large or heavy orders.
Seller: San Francisco Book Company, Paris, France
LARDNER, Ring W.. Own Your Own Home. The Bobbs Merrill Company, Indianapolis, 1919.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition, large Duodecimo, original off white pictorial boards with black and red designs and text. From American columnist and Humorist Ring W. Lardner black and white illustrations done by Fontaine Fox. Very good, spine ends bumped, no dust jacket as issued, scarce landen title.
Seller: Yesterday's Gallery, ABAA, East Woodstock, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$110.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Cover heavy browning to spine, heavy cover soil, bad damp staining to the title page, not too noticeable on front cover. Same to back cover but very heavy through to last page. body of book actually very clean and sound, very light overall page browning with this cheap paper. Fair condition but sound.
Seller: A Casperson Books, Niles, MI, U.S.A.
Lardner, Ring W.. OWN YOUR OWN HOME. The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Indianapolis, 1919.
Price: US$115.00 + shipping
Condition: Poor
Description: 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/--
Seller: J. Wyatt Books, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: 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 Book", but this was their first appearance in book form. Bruccoli and Laymen saw no copy in a dust jacket and the book was probably issued without one. This was the second of the two Ring Lardner books illustrated by popular cartoonist, Fontaine Fox (1884-1964), who is best known for his long-running comic, "Toonerville Folks." Bruccoli and Layman, "Ring W. Lardner: A Descriptive Bibliography," A9.
Seller: Eilenberger Rare Books, LLC, I.O.B.A., Durham, NC, U.S.A.
LARDNER, Ring. Own Your Own Home. The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Indianapolis, 1919.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. Illustrated by Fontaine Fox. Small octavo. 123pp. Pictorial paper-covered boards. Owner's large ink name and address on front pastedown and small ink inscription on front flyleaf, small chip at crown of spine, else a very good copy in moderately chipped unprinted glassine dust jacket, likely as issued by the publisher. Bruccoli states "Dust jacket not seen; possibly not published with jacket". Bruccoli A9 - only printing.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$165.00 + shipping
Description: 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.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$220.00 + shipping
Description: 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." Spine quite toned, some discoloration to boards due to dusting, shallow loss to spine crown. Still, Very Good. 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.
Seller: Lorne Bair Rare Books, ABAA, Winchester, VA, U.S.A.