[Rarebooks] fs: Auctioneer's 1922 Memoirs -A "Live Wire"!

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Gutelius, Col. J.P. HIGH LIGHTS ON AUCTIONEERING.
Kansas City; Nazarene Publishing House: 1922.

The no-foolin' memoirs of Col. J.P. Gutelius, the live-wire, high octane 
auctioneer-preacher who could, and did, sell just about anything, from an 
antique chair to men's shirts and a blind horse. Gutelius had been 
auctioneering for 32 when he wrote his memoirs, the last ten of them after 
his 1913 conversion to doing the Lord's work along with his own. His 
auctions featured free lunches, entertainment and preaching, but none of 
that ever got in the way of the selling. He also ran an auctioneering 
school, and this book was meant to be used to introduce newcomers, who 
needed to be "live wires", to the business. It includes a number of 
"patters" for selling various things, a variety of his "opening talks", and 
tales of past auctions. A vividly written glimpse into the world of 
auctioneering a hundred years ago.

Hardcover. 6"x9", 263 pages, b/w illustrations. Some light soil, hinges 
slightly shaken, pages a bit toned, etc. [07414] $175.00

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