[Rarebooks] FS: Will Rogers: THE ILLITERATE DIGEST, with a fine Inscription

[Charles Agvent]

ROGERS, Will:  THE ILLITERATE DIGEST
Albert & Charles Boni New York 1924 First Edition.  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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