Lardner, Ring. REGULAR FELLOWS I HAVE MET. [Privately Printed], Chicago, 1919.

Price: US$2500.00 + shipping

Description: First edition, and only one. Printed by Carbery & Reed. "[A] subscription (or mug book) sold to the men included in the text. Unknown number of copies" [Bruccoli & Layman A10]. Limericks by Lardner illustrated with caricatures by various "regular cartoonists" of friends and/or associates, mostly from the sporting community. Includes sportswriter Charles Comiskey; golfer Chick Evans, Jr.; former Reds owner August Herrman; former White Sox manager Kid Gleason; American League founder and first president Ban Johnson; plus other business professionals, actors, Chicago politicians, etc. Small quarto (7.75 x 10.25") green suede over stiff paper covers lined in silk and stab-sewn with gold silk cord; front cover lettered in gilt; approximately 200 leaves printed on rectos only of deckle-edged thick-stock paper interleaved with tissue-guards; unpaginated. Fair at best with cover edges evidently trimmed and extensively worn but binding cord present, gilt lettering on front intact, and interior pages very good. With prospectus/order form laid in laying out the ground rules for this subscription-only publication: "Edition Deluxe/ Price $100/ The subscriber understands this amount/ covers all charges in connection with the public-/ cation. Author has permission to include a caricature drawing of subscriber, with verse, in the book." Quite scarce, especially so with prospectus.

Seller: Quill & Brush, member ABAA, Middletown, MD, U.S.A.

Lardner, Ring. Regular Fellows I Have Met. Carbery & Reed, Chicago, 1919.

Price: US$3000.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: First edition. Bruccoli & Layman A-10. Very thick quarto with semi-stiff green suede covers tied togther with a silk cord. A collection of caricatures of friends and associates of Lardner separated by tissue guards. Quite scarce. A good copy with inevitable chips and wear to yapped edges of the suede covers. Spine darkened with age. Internally in very good condition. An unknown number of copies were produced.

Seller: Derringer Books, Member ABAA, Avon, CT, U.S.A.

LARDNER, Ring W.. Regular Fellows I Have Met. Carbery & Reed, Chicago, 1919.

Price: US$4500.00 + shipping

Condition: Near Fine

Description: Illustrated. Thick 4to, stiff green suede wrappers tied with silk cord;, green silk end-papers; spine and half the front cover are faded. Chicago: Privately Printed (by Carbery & Reed), 1919. First Edition. 200 leaves printed on thick, uncut paper interleaved with textured tissue guards. Each page contains a caricature of one of Lardner's friends. Bruccoli & Layman A-10.

Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.