Scherer Tutor (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Crosby DeMoss (illustrator). First Edition, First Printing. Signed and inscribed by the author's daughter in 1964. Small quarto in padded pictorial boards. Unpaginated. A collection of poems by L. B. "Tutor" Scherer" gambler and poet laureate of Nevada profusely illustrated by Crosby DeMoss. Only two copies located in Worldcat.Scherer was an investor in gambling saloons in Los Angeles, California, in the 1930s. He was a co-founder of the Pioneer Club Las Vegas in 1942, and subsequently invested in many casinos in Las Vegas, Nevada. He was the owner of large real estate holdings in Nevada and California. Later in life he published poems in the Nevada press, and republished selected poems in a poetry collection. He was appointed as the Poet Laureate of Nevada in 1950.Scherer's mother-in-law, Mrs. Mabel Monahan, was murdered in her house in Burbank, California, by burglars who thought she was hiding $100,000 for Scherer on March 9, 1953. Six more murders followed hers, the last of which took place in 1958.

Condition: Good. Signed Copy First edition copy. . SIGNED! Las Vegas, NV: L.B. Scherer, 1956. 1st edition. Sm 4to. Unpaginated. Illus. Limited edition. Signed by author on title page. Good book. (Nevada, Las Vegas, poetry, gambling, love poetry).