[Rarebooks] FS: Letters of a Self-Made Diplomat to his President, Inscribed by Will Rogers

[Charles Agvent]

One of 65 fine items from our Spring Catalog recently posted on our 
website: http://www.erols.com/agvent

ROGERS,  Will. LETTERS OF A SELF-MADE DIPLOMAT TO  HIS  PRESIDENT.
New  York:  Albert  & Charles Boni 1926. First Edition.  Brown  cloth.
Illustrated  with drawings. INSCRIBED and SIGNED by the author on  the
front    endpaper  nearly  filling   the  page:   "Frank   Wilson/Best
Wishes/of/Will  Rogers/almost  an author/Houston June 28,  1928."  The
title  page  states "Volume I" but Rogers in his preface reveals  that
statement  to  be a joke indicating that many more of  these  humorous
sketches  disguised  as  letters and telegrams to  President  Coolidge
could  be  compiled. 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  rather
uncommon.  The dustwrapper is soiled with a few tears and small chips.
Very Good in a Near Very Good dustwrapper.                    $1500.00


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