THE WILL ROGERS BOOK; compiled by Paula McSpadden Love, Curator, Will Rogers Memorial / Claremore, Oklahoma
Indianapolis New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc., 1961. B&W Photos. First Edition. Cloth and boards. INSCRIBED by the Author on the front free endpaper; tall 8vo, bright green 1/3 cloth with black lettering over very light green boards, illustrated with several B&W photos, archival mylar-protected photographic dust jacket (unclipped) depicting smiling Will Rogers, indexed, 218 pages. Near Fine / Very Good. Item #5885
Will Rogers (1879 – 1935) was an American stage and film actor, vaudeville performer, cowboy, humorist, newspaper columnist, and social commentator from Oklahoma. Known as "Oklahoma's Favorite Son", Rogers was born to a Cherokee family in Indian Territory. By the mid-1930s Rogers was hugely popular in the United States, its leading political wit and the highest paid of Hollywood film stars.
VERY GOOD CONDITION: tight, bright, clean copy with uniformly but heavily age-toned pages in a Very Good somewhat faded dust jacket (unclipped) with slight edgewear. No remainder marks.
Price: $25.00