Description
First edition of Fields for President by W.C. Fields.
Octavo, 120pp. Red cloth, title in black on spine. No additional printings listed. Solid text block, foxing to endpapers and edges, pen mark on front free endpaper, a very good example. In the publisher’s dust jacket, $1.50 retail price, sunned spine, some chips and short closed tears to edges.
William Claude Dukenfield (1880-1946) wrote Fields for President during the 1940 presidential campaign as a way to share comedic essays in the form of a political campaign speech. His topics include “My Views on Marriage,” “How to Beat the Federal Income Tax,” and “The Care of Babies.”
