Available Copies from Independent Booksellers
LARDNER.RING W.. TREAT EM ROUGH.. BOBBS-MERRILL., INDIANAPOLIS., 1918.
Price: US$7.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: TIGHT CLEAN COPY.SMALL STAIN IN OUTER MARGIN OF FFEP AND TWO FOLLOWING PAGES.INISUAL DUSTJACKET COULD BE USED TO MAIL BOOK TO ANY ADDRERSS IN U.S.(RATES SHOWN)HAS EDGEWEAR BROWNING AND PIECES MISSING FROM TOP AND BOTTOM OF FRONT COVER.NOW IN PROTECTIVE BRODART COVER.
Seller: Angus Books, SHEFFIELD, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$7.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Very Good- tight condition hardback light shelfwear Period inkname
Seller: Abracadabra Books 50% Off Sale!, Denver, CO, U.S.A.
Price: US$14.00 + shipping
Description: Small 8vo, pp. 160. Illustrated by Frank Cherie. Green cloth with full paper label on front. About a one-inch tear at side of spine-top, slightly worn at corners, o/w a VG tight copy.
Seller: Second Life Books, Inc., Lanesborough, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$14.95 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: This edition has the poem on page six. Light stain on front cover paste on cup ring. The hinges are strain corners not bumped and 160 pages. 01
Seller: Olmstead Books, Port Dover, ON, Canada
Lardner, Ring W.. Treat 'Em Rough. Bobbs-Merrill, Indianapolis, 1918.
Price: US$18.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Heavily chipped, but intact dust jacket (which was a wrap around mailer) in Demco cover. Tight binding, solid pictorial boards with sharp corners, sales receipt for the book laid in, clean, unmarked pages throughout. 1st edition.
Seller: Shaker Mill Books, W. Stockbridge, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$18.79 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Green cloth over boards with title stamped in red onto spine, illustrated paste-down onto upper cover, 12mo (7-3/8 inches tall), pp. 160. First edition, second issue with H.H. Howland's poem.
Seller: Harropian Books, IOBA, Nelson, BC, Canada
Price: US$19.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: The top of front board is starting to fray one cm and there is a one cm corner chip of the front board paste down and a small chip near the top. The hinges are both strong, gifted front free page, many illustrations in the 160 pp.
Seller: Olmstead Books, Port Dover, ON, Canada
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, 2nd printing with poem on page six; bound in green buckram, with illustrated title label on front panel; DW flap laid-in; illustrated in black & white; 160pp.
Seller: Michael J. Toth, Bookseller, ABAA, Springtown, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Book front has a soldier hitting a baseball that looks like the Kaiser. Book has a tear in the spine at the top otherwise ok.
Seller: The Book Lovers, Philo, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$20.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First Edition, first issue. No statement of second printing. Binding is a bit age-dulled with fading to the spine. The pictorial pastedown on the front cover is age-yellowed with some light soiling. no distortion of the book from reading or improper shelving. Pages are tight and clean with no marks. Gift inscription in ink on the front flyleaf from Christmas 1918. No odor. No water damage.
Seller: Book Stall of Rockford, Inc., Rockford, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$27.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 160 pages, illustrated. Green cloth cover with wonderful pastedown Corners of cover are rubbed Wear on edge of spine Pages are age-toned, but clean and tight
Seller: First Choice Books, coeurd'Alene, ID, U.S.A.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, second issue with the H. H. Howland poem. Illustrated by Frank Crerie. Spine sunned and rubbed, with rubbing on cover, very good, lacking the dust jacket.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, second issue with the H. H. Howland poem. Illustrated by Frank Crerie. Gift inscription, pages lightly foxed, covers slightly rubbed and lightly soiled, cover image with a small nick, about very good, lacking the dust jacket. A humorous look on World War I and baseball.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$30.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 12mo 7" - 7½" tall; 160 pages; Minor spotting/staining rear cover, minor rubbing and soiling. 2nd issue of the book.
Seller: Circle City Books, tucson, AZ, U.S.A.
Price: US$31.50 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 160 pages. Green boards with pictorial paper label. The covers are soiled and rubbed. The hinges are a bit tender but the contents are bright and complete. Good+
Seller: Hoffman Books, ABAA, IOBA, Columbus, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1918. First edition, 1st issue (with poem on p. 6), NF/. Book has some light surface wear, some color fading to spine (hard to read the letters), off-setting to page edges & interior pages. Illustrated with b & w drawings throughout by Frank Crerie. Humorous letters written to "Al" from Jack while he is in training at two military camps in the U.S. from Sept.-Dec, presumably in 1918, when WWI was just about over.
Seller: Blue Skye Books, Novato, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Early piece done by one of the most enjoyable writers of all, with alot of baseball content. Written during WWI.
Seller: LSQ Books, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Description: Near Very Good First Edition. 1st issue without the poem
Seller: Black Dog Books, Emerson, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$35.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, second issue with the H. H. Howland poem. A bit of foxing in the text, some age-toning to the front board illustration, a nice, very good plus copy, lacking the dustwrapper.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Lardner, Ring W.. Treat 'Em Rough. Bobbs-Merrill Co., Indianapolis, 1918.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1918 Bobbs-Merrill FIRST ed. second issue with the poem on page 6. This book is in VG condition. No DJ. The front pastedown is still vivid in color with the orange-red soldier and orange-red & black printing on a deep beige background. There are some small dried brownish stains but they are quite small. The deep green boards have minimal wear, mostly some rubs at the spine ends. The interior is very nice and clean with the merest of page darkening save for a bit on the ffep. A very tight clean collectible!
Seller: Bren-Books, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$40.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition, Second Issue with poem on page 6. Top edge of front cover bumped, small piece of paper adhering inside front cover, front free endpaper browned, strained, Very Good Minus in heavily chipped Dust Jacket with inside front flap detached, third of spine missing.
Seller: Pride and Prejudice-Books, Ballston Lake, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First Edition. Original green cloth, very good with large lable to front cover bright and intact, red lables to spine, bright has some fading to spine and edges of front lable. Inside, contains some offsetting to fly leafs and pastedowns. This copy in a good dust jacket with mail order still with the dj, illustrated throughout.
Seller: sonalsorises, los angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$45.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, second state (with dedicatory poem "To R.W.L."). Small 8vo. B/w illustrations and color cover drawing, by Frank Grerie. Original green cloth stamped in red, upper cover with large color pictorial label (slight rubbing). Very good. No dust jacket. No signatures or bookplates. 160 pages. Bruccoli A7.1b.
Seller: Houle Rare Books/Autographs/ABAA/PADA, Palm Springs, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: lst printing. (No poem on page 6). Illustrated by Frank Crerie. Green cloth with full length paste-on pictorial label to front board. Good condition. Former owner gift note. Pages of text slightly age-toned. Some off-setting to paste-downs. Spine darkened and moderate soil and light stains to boards. Edges lightly worn. Lacks a dust jacket.
Seller: Shirley K. Mapes, Books, Omaha, NE, U.S.A.
LARDNER, Ring. Treat 'Em Rough. Bobbs-Merrill, Indianapolis, 1918.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Description: Letters from Jack the Kaiser Killer. Illus. 8vo, cloth; pictorial label; faded & dust soiled. Indianapolis, (1918). First Edition. First issue, without the poem on p.6.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
LARDNER, RING. Treat 'Em Rough. Bobbs Merrill, Indianapolis, 1918.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: VG.
Seller: First Place Books - ABAA, ILAB, Walkersville, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Description: ; 160 pp.; DJ; F/VG+; The second printing, with the "To R.W.L." preliminary poem. The fragile jacket has some edge chipping, and neat internal repairs. . Bruccoli=A7.1.b. [kwA_ 1st Ed. ]
Seller: Watermark West Rare Books, Wichita, KS, U.S.A.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Description: Second printing (1918 on the copyright page) and 18-line poem to R.W.L. on p. 6. With numerous cartoon-like illustrations by Frank Crerie. VG+ in woven green cloth stamped in red on the spine and with paste-down label of Jack hitting a baseball head of the Kaiser. A clean, tight, collectible copy. Second printing (1918 on the copyright page) and 18-line poem to R.W.L. on p. 6.
Seller: Brainerd Phillipson Rare Books, Holliston, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Illustrated by Frank Crerie. Very good plus, first edition, 2nd issue book in very good minus dust jacket. Dark green cloth covered boards with colorful illustrated (almost) full board label on the front panel. Red stamped lettering and graphics on spine. External page edges are age-darkened and internal text pages are age-toned. Shadow transfers on end papers else book is internally clean. Text block is snug. Very fragile dust jackets sun darkened overall; significant loss at head and tail of jacket spine, lower edge of front panel and fore-edge corners. Additional chips along upper and lower edges. Front inside flap is separated from the front jacket panel. The back inside flap is 50% separated from the back jacket panel. Please use close-up options for best inspection and in support of condition description. Additional photos available at your request. International sales to all countries other than the UK will require use of an alternative shipping company which will result in higher shipping expense. A signature upon receipt may also be required.
Seller: R & G Bliss Books, Excelsior, MN, U.S.A.
LARDNER, Ring. Treat 'Em Rough. Bobbs-Merrill, Indianapolis, 1918.
Price: US$65.00 + shipping
Description: Letters from Jack the Kaiser Killer. Illustrated, small 8vo, cloth; pictorial label; Indianapolis, (1918). First Edition. Second issue, with the poem. Lardner's autograph on a slip of paper, pasted on flyleaf.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1918 160 pp with B&W drawings in text. Further adventures of Jack Keefe, a bush-league baseball player whose letters formed "You Know Me, Al," after he is drafted into the Army in World War l. Text is clean, tight and unmarked, a contemporary gift inscription on front endpapers .Endpapers are unevenly yellowed. Green cloth boards with pastedown showing a cartoon of Jack batting the Kaiser's head out of the park. Boards are in very good shape with no damage. Dust jacket is intact with yellowing and chipping and loss to spine end. Front flap of the dust jacket has instructions and mailing address for mailing the book by just attaching the front flap to the rear of the dust jacket. In mylar wrapper. Size: 5.5" X 7.5". First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Illus. by Crerie, Frank.
Seller: Catron Grant Books, Rio Rancho, NM, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, second issue with the H. H. Howland poem. Illustrated by Frank Crerie. Endpapers lightly tanned, else near fine in a poor tattered dustwrapper with extremities chipped and torn.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition, Second Issue. Very Good plus in Scarce Very Good Dustjacket with age toning front panel and spine, couple inch closed tear to front top edge, and general edge wear.
Seller: Babylon Revisited Rare Books, Northampton, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition, First Issue first issue without H. H. Howland's poem. Near Fine in Good dustjacket, shallow edge chipping, top front panel with v-shaped chip of less than two square inches.
Seller: Babylon Revisited Rare Books, Northampton, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$75.00 + shipping
Description: First Edition 160 pp., Green cloth with cover illustration pasted on front cover. B&W drawings throughout. First ed. first state. Content very good. Cover soiled and sunned, corners lightly bruised; no dust jacket. Gift inscription on ffly.
Seller: Book Stage, Stratford, ON, Canada
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: As New
Description: Legendary sportswriter Lardner's humorous book from the trenches of World War One. Binding is sturdy and square, with browning to endpapers, and profusely illustrated. Covered in a fragile, age-darkened jacket. First edition, first printing without the H. H. Howland poem.
Seller: MARIE BOTTINI, BOOKSELLER, Cotati, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, second issue with the H. H. Howland poem. Illustrated by Frank Crerie. Very good in chipped good dust jacket with modest loss.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition, first issue without H.H. Howland's poem. Small bookplate else fine lacking the dustwrapper.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$100.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First edition, second issue with H.H. Howland's poem. Covers with small light spots and front free endpaper with a gift inscription, else fine in a good, darkened and chipped dustwrapper split along one fold.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 8vo, variant blue cloth, with full paper label on top cover; large chip in rear panel of dust jacket. [ Bruccoli A. 7.1.b]. Added to this printing is the clever poem, "To R.W.L [ardner]," by H.H.H. This title employs the publisher's innovative dust jacket, the Bobbs-Merrill Economy Mailing Book Jacket, which can be instantly converted to a mailing label for the book! In fact, this dj was addressed for just such a purpose, and is partly glued to the front pastedown.
Seller: Thomas J. Joyce And Company, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st issue without the poem on page 6 - light neat contemporary name & offset on the endpaper - (from the dust jacket) - else a very good to near fine copy in very good dust jacket - small chips & tears - quite a nice copy as the dust jacket was designed with a wide flap to be folded over and pasted down to make a mailing wrapper, mainly to be mailed to a soldier overseas - Baseball & WWI content - scan available . Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Alphabet Bookshop (ABAC/ILAB), Port Colborne, ON, Canada
Price: US$130.00 + shipping
Description: Very Good in boards. Edge wear and soiling.
Seller: Rare Book Cellar, Pomona, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$165.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 8vo. [7], 9-160 pp. Green cloth with an illustrated paper label of Jack the Kaiser Killer hitting a baseball shaped like the Kaiser's head out of the park, black and red lettering on the front board, red lettering on the spine. Illustrated with a frontispiece and several full-page black and white drawings by Frank Crerie. The second issue, with the poem printed on the verso of the first full-page illustration. An American anti-German propaganda book also meant to function as a humorous story concerning baseball, a WWI soldier's experiences at the front, and his attitudes towards coming home. Bruccoli I 223. Johnson 309. ADNB, Joy Castro, "Latimer, Margery Bodine, (06 February 1899-16 August 1932)". Margery Latimer's copy, with her signed bookplate on the front pastedown and a gift inscription to her on the free front endpaper. Latimer also pasted in a newspaper cartoon, of a dog standing on top of a tank. The cartoon is captioned: "Treat 'Em Rough is the slogan of the tanks. Jack the Kaiser Killer is not a Tank but he likes the ring of the slogan." Latimer was an early twentieth-century Midwestern feminist and author of controversial books such as This is My Body. Her stories challenged traditional conceptions of gender and family dynamics. She was the subject of a miscegenation scandal because of her marriage to Jean Toomer. She died in childbirth at the age of 33. A Near Fine book lacking its dust jacket with minute rubbing to the textblock and a spot of offsetting on the rear free endpaper.
Seller: Evening Star Books, ABAA/ILAB, Madison, WI, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: Illustrated. 160 pages. Includes 18 line poem by H.H. Howland. Green cloth and illustrated paper on cover in very good, clean condition. Eps toned else a nice clean unmarked copy. The scarce dust jacket has instructions on how to use it as a mailer for the book, perhaps explaining the scarcity. This scarce unclipped dust jacket is now protected in mylar. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
Seller: Antiquarian Golf, Pepperell, MA, U.S.A.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: First Printing. A beautiful Fine copy in dark green cloth stamped in orange at spine, with illustrated plate to front cover, in a Very Good dustwrapper, slight wear to crown and points with sliver loss to rear top panel. Offsetting to endpapers from jacket flaps (as always). 160pp. Q19915
Seller: Compass Rose Books, ABAA-ILAB, Kensington, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition. Advance Reading Copy, without H.H. Howland's poem. Good in chipped and darkened wrappers with the front wrap separated, otherwise fine. An uncommon state of this bit of World War I (and baseball) humor from Lardner.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First edition, second issue with 18 line poem. Illustrations by Frank Crerie. An attractive near fine example in decorated boards. This copy has a tipped in typed letter from Lardner on Newbegin's Booksellers & Imports stationary. One page. Dated October 1918 and addressed to Dear Mable and with a typed sign-off as "Jack the Kaiser Killer by Ring W. Lardner". Letter is not signed other than what has been typed. Letter was written from his Army barracks. Letters from Lardner are quite elusive.
Seller: Derringer Books, Member ABAA, Avon, CT, U.S.A.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. The briefest of brief TYPED LETTERS SIGNED on letterhead of Chicago Tribune where he worked for years, dated August 30th (no year) "Dear Mr. Hanson:- Sure. Ring W. Lardner." First issue without the poem by H. H. Howland on page 6. Small 8vo green cloth stamped in red on spine; pictorial plate affixed to front cover. Dust jacket printed on brown kraft paper with gummed edge on verso of front flap; designed to serve as a wrapper for mailing. Very good or better with endpapers darkened and spine toned but otherwise only minor wear; in good to very good dust jacket with shallow chipping and tears and internal archival tape repair to splits at folds and spine. Scarce signed.
Seller: Quill & Brush, member ABAA, Middletown, MD, U.S.A.