Description
The limited edition of The Illiterate Digest, with a humorous inscription by Will Rogers.
Octavo, 350pp, [2]. Quarter white cloth over light blue cloth-covered boards, paper label on spine. Light soiling to white cloth spine, offsetting to endpapers. Illustrated with 29 full-page black-and-white drawings by Nate Collier.
One of 250 numbered copies, this one is out of series and not numbered. From the Myles Standish Slocum collection, a notable Pasadena book collector, with his signature.
Inscribed on the front free endpaper: “Have you an autographed library in your house? You should have. It’s the one thing that is read in a book. Will Rogers.”
A collection of Rogers’ early newspaper pieces and comic social commentary, including essays on politics, manners, Prohibition, public figures, and American life in the 1920s.
