[Rarebooks] FS: SIGNED Herbert Hoover's Speeches before the Gridiron Club, 1933, in dustwrapper

[Charles Agvent]

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)        $500

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