Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Doubleday, Garden City, NY
Date Published: 1948
Description: Good with no dust jacket. 255 pp. Index. Stated First Edition. Tan cloth hardcovers rubbed at spine ends and corners. Front free endpaper removed, stamped name on half-title page, else interior clean.; 8vo 8"-9" tall. read more
Description: Good. 1948, stated 1st, beige cloth, wear to corners and spine ends, interior is clean and sound, dust jacket is quite edgeworn and torn and has large chips, price clipped, dj spine is darkened. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: Doubleday & Company, Garden City, N. Y
Date Published: 1948
Description: 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 255p. A good to very good copy, the spine of which shows wear at the top, in a fair d.j. which is chipped at the top of the front panel and at the top of the spine, the spine of the d.j. is faded and a little soiled, the back panel is a bit soiled, and the former private owner has stamped his name and address on the front free endpaper. read more
Edition: First printing
Binding: Hardcover.
Publisher: Doubleday, Garden City, New York
Date Published: 1948
Description: Octavo, beige cloth. Small tan spot to outer margin of pp 32-35; light toning to the text; else fine, no owners. The thin dust jacket (cover illustration of the author typing so furiously his typer has blown up) is price-clipped; chips at spine tips and inner corners of rear panel (no lettering lost); short edge tears; good, but still respectable in appearance. Excellent text illustrations by the noted New Yorker cartoonist. Barbed humourous essays about America by the reknowned North Carolina ... read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Doubleday & Co.
Date Published: 1948
Description: Good in Fair jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Inscription and label inside front cover. DJ is taped to cover and has some chipping and shelf wear along edges. A collection of humorous essays by the North Carolina-born novelist and sportsman, Robert Ruark. In these essays Ruark savages such topics as Southern cooking, phony advertising, women's makeup, bed manufacturers, belligerent ball players, Leo Durocher, Admiral Byrd, doped horse races and much more. read more
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