Autograph Hound Saturday sneaks up on us again. . . .
As I predicted the noted if not maniacal autograph collector Brian Leno was kind of jealous of the inscribed book by Arthur O. Friel — one of the top writers for the pulp Adventure — that I eased into the Hound Sessions without telling him about it. Much earlier I ran a signature from Friel from Brian’s collection — not an inscription, but not bad.
Leno told me he’d feel even worse about someone having an inscription when he didn’t — except that he had another Friel auto.
Of course he does.
This one comes on the cheque from Adventure to pay for the story “Tiger Trap.”
Nice. The tale behind the acquisition, however, is somewhat commonplace.
Brian tells me, “Well, I was alerted by eBay that a Friel signature was out there and at the same time it alerted me that a Carroll John Daly signature was also available.
“Both were signed checks for payment from a pulp and both were from the same seller. So, being perhaps just a bit fanatical I bought them both.”
