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LARDNER (Ring W.)
Treat 'Em Rough: Letters from Jack the Kaiser Killer.
Illustrated by Frank Crerie. 1st Ed., 160pp., 31 amusing sketches/cartoons. Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company.
1918
#68174
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The imagined letters of a volunteer from training camps in the USA, written in a working man's vernacular, including much grousing & amusing anecdotes, illustrated with humorous sketches. Ringgold Wilmer Lardner (1885-1933) was an American sports journalist, lyricist & short story writer of note, who was apparently admired by contemporaries such as Ernest Hemingway & F. Scott Fitzgerald. The hero of the work Jack Keefe, had first appeared in 'You Know Me Al' - a baseball player's imagined letters which some considered to be one of the top works of American comic fiction. Keefe appeared in further work including a cartoon strip. Orig. green cloth with illustrated paper onlay to front. Little stained. VG. See illustrations on our website.
£25
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