[Rarebooks] FS: Hoover After Dinner: Light Bulbs and Boy Scouts, Inscribed

[Charles Agvent]

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HOOVER,  Herbert.  HOOVER AFTER DINNER.  ADDRESSES  DELIVERED  BY
HERBERT  HOOVER  BEFORE THE GRIDIRON CLUB OF WASHINGTON, D. C....  New
York  and  London:  Charles  Scribner's   Sons  1933.  First  Edition.
Includes  eight speeches before the Gridiron Club, the first time  the
speeches  of  a  U.S. President to the club were printed, as  well  as
four  other  addresses  by  Hoover: "A Remedy  for  Disappearing  Game
Fishes";  a  speech celebrating the Fiftieth Anniversary  of  Edison's
Invention  of the Incandescent Electric Lamp; a speech before the Iowa
Society;  and a speech commemorating the Twentieth Anniversary of  The
Boy  Scouts  of America. This copy INSCRIBED and SIGNED on  the  front
endpaper  by  the  author: "To one  Katherine  Eckerts(?)/a  steadfast
person/from  Herbert Hoover." Laid in is a ten-page pamphlet by Hoover
titled "Our National Policies in This Crisis," dated 20 December 1950,
printing  a  speech he gave in New York on that date.  Neat  bookplate
on  front  pastedown  and owner blindstamp at bottom of  front  blank.
Dustwrapper  spine  darkened.  Near  Fine in uncommon  and  Very  Good
dustwrapper.                                                   $750.00

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