Accession number
PML 185959
Creator
Lardner, Ring, 1885-1933.
Published
Chicago : [s.n.], 1919.
Credit line
The Carter Burden Collection of American Literature.
Notes
Each leaf accompanied by guard sheet.
Evidently a dummy copy made up to show prospective subscribers, with only the printed title leaf, forward, and 7 of the 197 caricatures of Lardner's friends and contemporaries which comprised the published book.
Library's copy housed in black cloth clamshell box.
Privately published by subscription and sold to the men included in the text.
Evidently a dummy copy made up to show prospective subscribers, with only the printed title leaf, forward, and 7 of the 197 caricatures of Lardner's friends and contemporaries which comprised the published book.
Library's copy housed in black cloth clamshell box.
Privately published by subscription and sold to the men included in the text.
Description
[52] leaves (the last 43 leaves blank) : ill. ; 30 cm
Provenance
Carter Burden.
Binding
Bound in original green suede with lettering in gilt, stab-sewn with heavy gold cord.
Classification
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