?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
Two Satirical Works by Notable American Columnists. Both Inscribed.
Ring W. Lardner's (1885-1933) Bib Ballads. New York: P.F. Volland & Co., 1915. First edition, octavo, inscribed by Lardner: "To the twin's daddy from the two boy's daddy, Xmas 1915," on ffep; illustrated by Fontaine Fox; occasional thumbing; original brown publisher's cloth stamped with gold and white, brown endpapers, top edge gilt; corners slightly bumped; 8 3/4 x 6 in.
Robert Benchley's (1889-1945)The Early Worm. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1927. First edition, octavo, inscribed by Benchley to prize-winning American playwright and screenwriter Rob Sherwood, "To Rob Sherwood Who was walking down 'The Road to Rome' one day when he met 'The Silon Cold'. So he said 'Oh, Kay!' and fell into 'The Spider' who happened along 'Honeymoon Lane' just then. So he said 'Right You Are If You Think You Are' and that is 'What Ann Brought Home,'"dated May 12, 1927, and listing various projects either written or likely contributed to by Sherwood, frontispiece and numerous text illustrations by American cartoonist Gluyas Williams; frontispiece detached, small stain to the lower corner of page 88; original green publisher's cloth stamped with yellow and dark green, with green string page-marker; extremities worn, spine lightly toned, a few tiny stains to each board; lacking original dust-jacket; 7 1/2 x 5 in. (2)
Property from the Estate of Michael Feingold (1945-2022).
