[Rarebooks] FS: Hoover After Dinner, SIGNED by Herbert Hoover
Charles Agvent
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HOOVER, Herbert. HOOVER AFTER DINNER. ADDRESSES DELIVERED BY HERBERT
HOOVER BEFORE THE GRIDIRON CLUB OF WASHINGTON, D. C. New York and
London: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1933. First Edition. Includes eight
speeches before the Gridiron Club, the first time the speeches of a U.S.
President to the club were printed, as well as four other addresses by
Hoover: "A Remedy for Disappearing Game Fishes"; a speech celebrating
the Fiftieth Anniversary of Edison's Invention of the Incandescent
Electric Lamp; a speech before the Iowa Society; and a speech
commemorating the Twentieth Anniversary of The Boy Scouts of America.
This copy INSCRIBED and SIGNED on the front endpaper by the author: "To
one Katherine Eckerts(?)/a steadfast person/from Herbert Hoover." Laid
in is a ten-page pamphlet by Hoover titled "Our National Policies in
This Crisis," dated 20 December 1950, printing a speech he gave in New
York on that date. Neat bookplate on front pastedown and owner
blindstamp at bottom of front blank. Near Fine in an uncommon and Very
Good dustwrapper with the spine darkened. (#012951) $750.00
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