[Rarebooks] FS: SIGNED Will Rogers: LETTERS OF A SELF-MADE DIPLOMAT TO HIS PRESIDENT

[Charles 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. Very Good in a Near Very 
Good, soiled dustwrapper with a few tears and small chips. (#014899)    
     $1,500.00

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