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Lot 165

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LARDNER, Ring W. (1885-1933). Regular Fellows I Have Met. Chicago: n.p., 1919. 4to (271 x 196 mm). Approximately 200 caricatures printed on thick paper, interleaved with tissue guards, each accompanied by a limerick by Lardner, including caricatures of Charles Comiskey, Kid Gleason, Col. Charles H. Ebbets, and numerous businessmen, attorneys, politicians and other figures, primarily from Chicago. Original green soft suede, cover gilt-lettered, stab sewn with green silk rope, yapp edges, green silk endleaves. FIRST EDITION, privately printed, and likely intended for distribution among his friends. RARE AT AUCTION.

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