Leona La Mar's Book of Psychology
Englewood, N.J. Leona La Mar, [Ca. 1920]. 8vo, 46pp. Printed card wrappers with portrait of LaMar on front. Heavily toned and soiled, small split at top and bottom of spine. Former owner's name to title page which has some spotting. Rear "Question Blank Coupon" has been removed and presumably sent to LaMar at some point. A good, sound copy.
Interesting and scarce pitch-book sold at performances by the popular American mentalist and vaudeville performer, Leona LaMar (1883-1941). At the height of her fame in the 1910s-1920s, LaMar grossed $2500 per week for her shows. Discusses the development of mental powers including telepathy and genius, prophecy, character reading through features, astrology, etc. We identify a couple other iterations of this booklet with varying paginations and titles, though each cover bears her billing as "The Girl with 1,000 Eyes." We find no holdings for this book, nor others from LaMar, in OCLC. Item #6565
Price: $200.00