BIB BALLADS

by Ring W. Lardner, Fontaine Fox, poetry, illustrations

$100 · Offered by Lorne Bair Rare Books

First edition

Chicago: Volland, 1915. First Edition. First edition, one of 500 copies. Brown cloth, with gilt titling and illustration; top edge gilt; unpaginated. Illustrated throughout by Fontaine Fox. Minor soiling mostly fingerprints , with bright cover illustration; about Fine. Remnants of bookseller ticket on rear end paper. Lacking only the very scarce paper box. Lardner's first solely authored book, a

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