LARDNER, Ring W.. The Real Dope. The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Indianapolis, 1919.

Price: US$75.00 + shipping

Description: First Edition. Octavo, original dark blue cloth over boards, red lettering and border, black and white plate frontispiece, black and white plates throughout. A collection of some of Lardner's serialized epistolary stories about headstrong, naive, uneducated, egotistical professional baseball pitcher Jack Keefe; in these collected stories, Keefe is sent to France to fight in WWI. Very Good to Near Fine, very light shelf wear.

Seller: Yesterday's Gallery, ABAA, East Woodstock, CT, U.S.A.

LARDNER, Ring. The Real Dope. The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Indianapolis, IN, 1919.

Price: US$100.00 + shipping

Description: First edition. Hardcover. 186 pages. Variant printing with red boards with black lettering (not in Bruccoli and Layman bibliography) A very good plus copy with some rubbing to the edges of the boards and some slight offsetting/foxing to the endpapers and in an about fair dust jacket that has a large chunk missing from the top of the spine, some soiling, and the front panel is largely detached from the spine. Still, a solid copy.

Seller: Jeff Hirsch Books, ABAA, Wadsworth, IL, U.S.A.

LARDNER, Ring W.. The Real Dope. Bobbs-Merrill Co, Indianapolis, 1919.

Price: US$150.00 + shipping

Description: First Edition. May Wilson Preston dustjacket art and illustrations (also by M. L. Blumenthal). Very Good, nicks and wear at top spine end, some soiling or discoloration at cloth, in Good only dustjacket, chipped at edges, some chipping at flap folds.

Seller: Babylon Revisited Rare Books, Northampton, MA, U.S.A.

Lardner, Ring W.. THE REAL DOPE. The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Indianapolis, 1919.

Price: US$750.00 + shipping

Description: First edition. Illustrated by May Wilson Preston and M. L. Blumenthal. More stories from Jack the Kaiser Killer continuing his letters from the ship and on shore in France. Nice copy of the book which is near fine with the barest wear in a very nice, bright dust jacket with very small chips on corners and spine ends, also near fine.

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

LARDNER, Ring W.. The Real Dope.. The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Indianapolis, 1919.

Price: US$1250.00 + shipping

Description: 186 pp. 8vo, publisher's blood-red cloth stamped in black, in dust jacket. First edition, binding 3. Near fine in a bright jacket with a touch of fraying to edges and a small, very light waterstain to the spine. A superior example of the scarce dust jacket. The continuing adventures of Jack Keefe.

Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.