[Rarebooks] FS: Inscribed Will Rogers (almost an author)

[Charles Agvent]

ROGERS,  Will. THE ILLITERATE DIGEST. New York: Albert & Charles  Boni
1924.  First Edition. Blue cloth. Illustrated with drawings. INSCRIBED
and  SIGNED  by  the author on the front endpaper nearly  filling  the
page:    "To/J.C.   Calhoun/a   Friend/from/Will   Rogers/(almost   an
author)/New  York. Nov 15, 24." Rogers was born in Indian Territory in
1879  and  had  some Native American blood in his veins. He  began  in
vaudeville  and  moved  on to motion pictures, a career that  was  cut
short  when he died in a small plane crash in 1935 near Point  Barrow,
Alaska.  Perhaps  he  was  best known,  however,  for  his  syndicated
newspaper  column  which  had  such   a  massive  following  that  the
proposition  that  he run for President was once  seriously  advanced.
His  saying,  "All I know is what I read in the newspapers,"  became a
popular  catchword  of  the times. Books signed or inscribed  by  this
most  popular  of  American  humorists, especially with  such  a  fine
inscription,  are  quite  scarce, this being only the second  we  have
come   across  in  many  years   of  looking.  About  Fine,  lacking a
dustwrapper.                                                  $1500.00

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