...offers advice for men on developing an appealing image, meeting women, making interesting conversation with women, and developing a lasting relationship
This is clearly one of Vogel's more sought out books. One copy is going for over $500. The cheapest hardcover, in case you're reading this Droopy, goes for nearly $150, but even that copy is a "Well-loved and read copy. Heavy wear to the cover and binding. Pages have marginal notes, underlining, highlighting, and dog eared." If the book got that much love, something tells me all that laborious study didn't pay off.
Putting on my critical hat, I am going to say that our Dan Vogel cannot be the author of this, since he would have to have written it in high school, and nobody who wrote "Indian Origins and the Book of Mormon" in college could possibly have written an experience-based book like this while in high school. Amazon has blundered again, as they so often do in their rare and out-of-print entries.
Putting on my philological hat, though, I can say with certainty that, while Dan Vogel isn't the author, he must have been the editor of this work. For one thing, editing a manuscript is something I can easily imagine Dan Vogel doing in high school. That means it is likely a very early Mormon document, and there is an important clue that How to Win with Women is a lost manuscript of Joseph Smith's (dictated to Heber Kimball, no doubt). The clue is the emphasis on "lasting relationship," which must mean eternal marriage—is there any romance that could be more long lasting?
So, I'm wondering, Dan, will there be a new critical edition of this work with its original title ("Melchizedek Priesthood Manual for 1842"), complete with historical commentary? I'm sure Droopy will be looking forward to it.