Nice old find!! SAMUEL FRANCIS WOOLARD Signed Book!!
Posted: Tue Nov 30, 2010 7:37 pm
My wife went to see her parents the other day in Caldwell, KS(about 3 hours from us)and came home with a van of goodies!! They usually give us old stuff to try and sell on eBay. There were a bunch of old books in this load. One of them was a book entitled "For Each Day A Prayer". Published in 1905 by the Dodge Publishing Company, and written by Elizabeth Hamill Davis. Inside the book, on the first blank page, was an inscription, "With Christmas good wishes-Samuel Francis Woolard-The Goldsmith Christmas-1912". I researched the name, out of curiosity because the inscription was so beautiful, and it turns out Mr. Woolard was somewhat of a Kansas celebrity. He served as Lt. Colonel on the staff of three different governors and was an author and publisher, owning a publishing company with a man with the last name of....Goldsmith. It looks like Samuel had purchased this book and gave it to Goldsmith as a Christmas present!! Or he at least gave it to someone who perhaps attended a Christmas party thrown by Golsmith. Either way, this is my first signed book by someone who had nothing to do with the particular book!! And one of my few vintage signatures as well. Pretty neat! 
