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First edition, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1979. Good plus softcover. Interior clean, no writings.

First printing from Tower Books Edition. Boards are well-bound, beginning to crack at title page; clean. Pages are tanning w/age, unmarked throughout.

8vo. Brown cloth, pictorial dust jacket. 192pp. Very good/good plus. Jacket a bit edgeworn, with somme paper loss across top of front panel extending to top of jacket spine; text block lightly age toned as usual. A tight and decent "poor man's first"--not the true 1916 first edition of this baseball fiction, but the first "Tower Books Edition." Notes front jacket panel, "The hilarious book about a bush-leaguer, by one of America's foremost humorists."

First Edition, second state buff/tan cloth with black stamped lettering and illustration. Front hinge starting. War Service library book plate on inside front cover.

First Edition. First issue rust cloth with gilt stamping. This sports satire, written in the form of letters from a bush league ballplayer to a friend back home, was Lardner's first successful book. In a 2006 Wall Street Journal article, Andrew Ferguson calls You Know Me, Al a masterpiece and includes it in his list of the top five American humor classics that are enduringly funny. Very good plus, with gilt a little dulled on spine, light wear to cloth at spine ends, small bookplate on front pastedown, lacking the rare dustjacket.

First Edition. First issue rust cloth with gilt stamping. This sports satire, written in the form of letters from a bush league ballplayer to a friend back home, was Lardner's first successful book. In a 2006 Wall Street Journal article, Andrew Ferguson calls You Know Me, Al a masterpiece and includes it in his list of the top five American humor classics that are enduringly funny. Very good plus, with gilt a little dulled on spine, light wear to cloth at spine ends, small bookplate on front pastedown, lacking the rare dustjacket.