In Other Words
Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1912.
Price: $500.00
Hardcover. First edition. About fine in a slightly soiled, very good or better dustwrapper. Inscribed by the author: "To Carrie Wright from hers lovingly, F.P.A. April 18, 1916." Humorous verse, including several on baseball, most notably "Baseball's Sad Lexicon". Adams's second book, scarce either inscribed or in jacket.
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Franklin P. Adams
birth name: Franklin P. Adams
born: 11/15/1881
died: 3/23/1960
Biography
American newspaper columnist, translator, poet, and radio personality whose humorous syndicated column earned him the reputation of godfather of the contemporary newspaper column. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore