1925 GULLIBLE'S TRAVELS, ETC by Ring W. Lardner Classic Humor VINTAGE Book

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Be sure to add me to your favorites list ! So you don't miss out on our Great Sales !! (we will be posting many rare collectible books over the next several weeks, so please keep coming back and check out my other items ! )GULLIBLE'S TRAVELS, ETC.by Ring W. Lardner1925Published by : Charles Scribner's Sons New York 256 PagesCondition: This book has its original dust cover it is not clipped but has no price. The jacket is in a mylar cover and has heavy wear, the spine of jacket is missing, it has chipping/tears a missing pieces along the edges as you can see in the pictures. The book itself has age toning, fading, stains/dirtiness, corner bumps, some rubbing. We try to take a lot of pictures so you can see the condition, so Please look at all the pictures as it's possible we may have forgotten to mention something.**************************************************** A Little Info from WikipediaRinggold Wilmer Lardner (March 6, 1885 - September 25, 1933) was an American sports columnist and short story writer best known for his satirical writings about sports , marriage , and theatre dramaBorn in Niles, Michigan , Ring Lardner was the son of wealthy parents, Henry and Lena Phillips Lardner. He was the youngest of nine children. Lardner's name came from a cousin of the same name. The cousin had been named by Lardner's uncle, Rear Admiral James L. Lardner , who had decided to name his son after a friend, Rear Admiral Cadwalader Ringgold , who was from a distinguished military family. Lardner never liked his given name and abbreviated it to Ring, naming one of his sons Ring Jr .Lardner was married to Ellis Abbott of Goshen, Indiana during 1911. They had four sons, John , James, Ring Jr., and David.Lardner started his writing career as a sports columnist, finding work with the newspaper South Bend Tribune as a teenager. Soon afterward, he accepted a job with the rival newspaper South Bend Times , the first of many professional switches. During 1907, he relocated to Chicago , where he gained a job with Inter-Ocean , but within a year, he switched to work for to the Chicago Examiner , then the Tribune . Two years later, Lardner was in St. Louis , writing the humorous baseball column Pullman Pastimes for Taylor Spink and the Sporting News . Some of this work was the basis for his book You Know Me Al . Within three months, he was an employee of the Boston American .During 1913, Lardner returned to the Chicago Tribune , which became the home newspaper for his syndicated column In the Wake of the News (started by Hugh Keough , who had died during 1912). The column appeared in more than 100 newspapers, and is still published in the Tribune . Lardner's Tribune and syndicated writing was not exclusively sports related: his dispatches from/near the World War One front were collected in the book My Four Weeks in France , and his immersive coverage of the 1920 Democratic Convention resulted in Lardner receiving 0.5 votes on the 23rd ballot.During 1916, Lardner published his first successful book, You Know Me Al , an epistolary novel written in the form of letters by "Jack Keefe", a bush-league baseball player, to a friend back home. The letters made much use of the fictional author's idiosyncratic vernacular . It had initially been published as six separate but interrelated short stories in The Saturday Evening Post , causing some to classify the book as a collection of stories , others as a novel . Like most of Lardner's stories, You Know Me Al employs satire , in this case to show the stupidity and avarice of a certain type of athlete. The journalist Andrew Ferguson wrote that "Ring Lardner thought of himself as primarily a sports columnist whose stuff wasn't destined to last, and he held to that absurd belief even after his first masterpiece, You Know Me Al , was published in 1916 and earned the awed appreciation of Virginia Woolf , among other very serious, unfunny people." Ferguson termed the book one of the top five pieces of American humor writing.Sarah Bembrey has written about a singular event in Lardner's sports writing experience: "In 1919 something happened that changed his way of reporting about sports and changed his love for baseball. This was the Black Sox scandal when the Chicago White Sox sold out the World Series to the Cincinnati Reds . Ring was exceptionally close to the White Sox and felt he was betrayed by the team. After the scandal, Ring always wrote about sports as if there were some kink to the outcome." Lardner's last fictional baseball writing was collected in the book Lose with a Smile (1933).Lardner later published such stories as "Haircut", "Some Like Them Cold", "The Golden Honeymoon", " Alibi Ike ", and "A Day with Conrad Green". He also continued to write follow-up stories to You Know Me Al , with the protagonist of that book, the headstrong but gullible Jack Keefe, experiencing various ups and downs in his major league career and in his personal life. Private Keefe's World War I training camp letters home to his friend Al were collected in the book Treat 'Em Rough: Letters From Jack the Kaiser Killer". The sequel, "The Real Dope" followed Keefe overseas to the trenches in France.Lardner was a dedicated composer and lyricist: both his first - Zanzibar (1903)- and last - June Moon (1920)- published stage works included several Lardner tunes. Lardner wrote at least one recorded song for Bert Williams , and provided the lyrics for the song "That Old Quartet" (1913) by Nathaniel D. Mann . Other collaborators of note(s) included Aubrey Stauffer, Jerome Kern , and Vincent Youmans -with whom he toiled on the Ziegfeld Astaires musical, Smiles (1930). Lardner also had a lifelong fascination with the theatre, although his only Broadway three-act successes were the thrice-filmed Elmer The Great , co-written with George M. Cohan , and June Moon , a comedy authored with Broadway veteran George S. Kaufman . Lardner also wrote skits fot the Ziegfeld Follies. and a series of brief nonsense plays that ridiculed the conventions of the theatre using zany humor and outrageous, impossible stage directions, such as "The curtain is lowered for seven days to denote the lapse of a week."Lardner was a good friend of F. Scott Fitzgerald and other authors of the Jazz Age . His books were published by Maxwell Perkins , who also served as Fitzgerald's editor. To create his first book of short stories Lardner had to get copies from the magazines who bought the stories -- he held his own short stories in low regard and did not save copies.Lardner was in some respects the model for the tragic character Abe North of Fitzgerald's last completed novel, Tender Is the Night .Lardner influenced Ernest Hemingway , who sometimes wrote articles for his high school newspaper using the pseudonym Ring Lardner, Jr. The two met during December 1928, thanks to Max Perkins, but did not become friends.Lardner died on September 25, 1933, at the age of 48 in East Hampton, New York , of complications from tuberculosis .FREE SHIPPING to the USA International Shipping will be via USPS International 1st Class Package or USPS Priority Mail depending on the weight. USA Shipping is via USPS Media mail and will be properly professionally packed & boxed. 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