[Rarebooks] FS: INSCRIBED Book by the Foremost Native-American Humorist

[Charles Agvent]

ROGERS, Will. THE ILLITERATE DIGEST. New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 
1924. First Edition. Blue cloth. 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. 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 and 
member of the Cherokee Nation, especially with such a fine inscription, 
are uncommon. About Fine, lacking a dustwrapper. (#012049)        $1,500.00

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