Loud With Laughter. A Novel by Buena Vista Stine, Author of Blood Kin

Los Angeles: Wetzel Publishing Co., Inc 1943 First edition, presentation copy. Thirteen copies in OCLC, most located in California. Red cloth, black lettering; in dust jacket. . Octavo. Mild shelf-wear to spine. Minor stain to upper fore-edge of back cover. Moderate chipping at dust jacket edges and head of spine. Inscribed by author (with self-portrait cartoon) to a friend shortly after publication. A very good copy of a scarce book, published by an obscure Los Angeles publisher that operated in the 1920s through 1940s. Stine (1896-1965), born on a farm near Purdy, MO, moved to Los Angeles after World War I. The presentation in this copy is to Louise McAllister Tebbetts, a friend of the author's from Missouri, who became a writer and book reviewer in Chicago. Stine published fiction and worked as a gossip columnist and reporter for Hollywood Lowdown, a picture trade paper, from 1933-1936. Her other novels include Blood Kin, The Talented Wench, and Half World.