$1,280
A group of 19 biographies and autobiographies by mostly American performers and luminaries, stamped “Property of Stan Laurel” or “Stan Laurel” with his address in California. The books include The Autobiography of Will Rogers (Boston: The Riverside Press Cambridge, 1949); Will Rogers Ambassador of Good Will Prince of Wit and Wisdom by P.J. O’Brien (United States: The John C. Winston Company, 1935); There’s Not a Bathing Suit in Russia by Will Rogers (New York: Albert & Charles Boni, 1927); a copy of Will Rogers World Beloved Humorist and Philosopher , a periodical with “Memorial Issue” on the top; an unstamped copy of Call Him George by Jay Allison Stuart (London: The Jazz Book Club, 1963); Prince of Players by Edwin Booth (New York: W.W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1953); another copy of Prince of Players by Edwin Booth (London: Peter Davis, 1953), inscribed within by an unknown hand “To Stan with Kindest Regards and Affection”; My Life Is in Your Hands by Eddie Cantor (New York: Blue Ribbon Books, Inc., 1932); The Life and Adventures of Carl Laemmle by John Drinkwater (New York: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1931); My Life by Isadora Duncan (Garden City, New York: Garden City Publishing Company, Inc., 1927); Reminiscences of DeWolf Hopper by Hopper and Wesley Winans Stout (Garden City, New York: Garden City Publishing Company, 1927); W . C . Fields : His Follies and Fortunes by Robert Lewis Taylor (Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Compa
Auctioneer:
Juliens Auctions
Date:
2013-11-09
