[a nice sound copy, light shelfwear, gilt spine lettering just a bit rubbed; the jacket is lightly soiled, with tiny tears and minor paper losses at the spine corners, and a small piece torn away at the bottom right corner of the front panel]. (B&W drawings) An epistolary tale, in the vein of Ring Lardner's "You Know Me Al," as Ed. Harmon ("formly the sensation of baseball") quits the Big Leagues -- impulsively, to avoid being shipped out to the minors -- signs up to fight the Germans, and writes humorous semi-literate letters to his pal Joe back home, relating jocular accounts of his experien... View More...
[modest wear to top and bottom edges, spine very slightly turned; the jacket is a bit age-toned (slight more at spine) and moderately edgeworn, with some minor chipping at the spine ends]. (4 B&W film stills) Boxing yarns in a hard-boiled vernacular, narrated by a manager/promoter whose big ticket is a fighter named "Kid Roberts," a college man (real name Kane Halliday) who's gotten into the prizefighting game under a pseudonym. Although jacket-blurbed as a "novel," in fact this book is made up of a dozen short stories (all of which had appeared in Collier's magazine between May 1920 and Apri... View More...
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