[Rarebooks] FS: Wonderfully Inscribed Herbert Hoover CHALLENGE TO LIBERTY

[Charles Agvent]

HOOVER, Herbert. THE CHALLENGE TO LIBERTY. New York: Charles Scribner's 
Sons, 1934. First Edition. Third Printing. Red cloth. INSCRIBED and 
SIGNED at length by the author filling the front free endpaper: "To S. 
J. Woolf--/with the Kind Regards of/Herbert Hoover/and dedicated to 
the/Advance 
Horsemen/Imperialism/Intolerance/State-ism/Agnosticism/Hate./H.H." 
Samuel Johnson Woolf began his artistic career began during World War I, 
where, as an active soldier at the front, he sketched dramatically real 
battle scenes, and behind the lines drew intimate pictures of both 
soldiers and statesman including General John C. Pershing. Back home, 
Woolf distinguished himself as the finest and most successful portrait 
draftsman in America from the 1920s to his death in 1948. During this 
period, he drew from life nearly every major American figure in 
politics, including Hoover, and also portrayed many of the leading 
British and European personalities of his time. Books inscribed by 
Hoover at such length and with such sentiment are quite scarce. Near 
Fine in a Very Good dustwrapper. 		$1,500.00

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