$1,024
A group of 13 books, mostly instructional, stamped “Property of Stan Laurel” or “Stan Laurel” with his address in California within. The books include The Bartender’s Friend by “A Mixer” (New York: Jarmor Publishing Co., 1933); Getting Along With People by Milton Wright (New York: Garden City Publishing Co. Inc., 1939); Blackstone’s Modern Card Tricks by Harry Blackstone (New York: George Sully and Company Inc., 1932) with an inscription on the loose endpaper “To My Friend/ Stan Laurel/ With all good wishes/ he still thinks the/ 7 of diamonds is/ the queen of clubs/ Harry Blackstone/ 1934); How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1937); How to Speak Good English by E.F. Haberstroh (Wisconsin: Whitman Publishing Company, 1931); Panguingue by Clarence Morehouse (Hollywood: The Cloister Press, 1937); Joe Miller’s Jest Book (Philadelphia: Crawford & Co., 1884); Oswald Jacoby’s Complete Canasta (Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1950); Chemical Gardening for the Amateur by Charles Conners and Victor Tiedjens (New York: WM. H. Wise & Co., 1939); Library of Wit and Humor by Melville Landon (Chicago: Thompson & Thomas, date unknown); a pamphlet titled “100 Years of Showmanship” by J.R. Poole, with an inscription on the title page “To Stan Laurel, with the [illegible] compliments, July, 1947, J.R. Poole”; an unstamped copy of “Tinpanalley” with lyrics by Paddy Roberts (England: Coram Ltd.,
Auctioneer:
Juliens Auctions
Date:
2013-11-09
