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1965ref. SPOR0283Wien u.a., Pechan (1965). kl.-8°, 94 S., mit Abb., farb. ill. OKart. (= Perlen-Reihe Bd. 685). 2 Beigaben: Perlen-Reihe Bd. 687: 48 der besten Zauberkunststücke mit Zündhölzern und Zündholzschachteln; Perlen-Reihe Bd. 682: Mertens, F. Zaubern schnell erlernt., 2. Aufl. An allen Bändchen leichte Gebrauchsspuren.
1872ref. STAN0080Weimar, Voigt 1872. XVI, 219 S., 61 Fig. im Text, Halblederband d. Zt. mit goldgepr. RüTit., sehr gut erhalten, Titelbll. mit altem Eignerstemp., Exlibris. / Angeb.: BOSCO, Carl. Zauberku?nste, oder, Die Taschenspielerkunst in ihrem ganzen Umfange : eine Sammlung von 253 der interessantesten Kunststu?cke aus der natu?rlichen Magie, welche in Gesellschaften die u?berraschendsten Wirkungen hervorbringen, nebst vielen Karten-Kunststu?cken...4.Aufl. Berlin, Mode (1867). 203 S., 35 Fig. im Text / DER ROTHE TEUFEL im Salon oder Bosco in allen Gesellschaften : eine Sammlung der neuesten und interessantesten Belustigungen aus dem Gebiete der natürlichen Magie...3. Aufl. Weimar, Voigt 1871. XVI, 265 S. 144 Fig. im Text. zu 1.: Graesse, Bibliotheca magica 116 (2.u.5.Aufl.). / zu 2.: Clarke/Blind 13; Volkmann 33. / zu 3.: Clarke/Blind 67; Volkmann 146. - Mit Eignerstemp. des Theaterwissenschaftlers und Sammlers Constant (Konstantin) Danhelovsky
1919ref. FSKB0367London, Goldston s. d. [1919]. 92(1) Seiten, zahlr. Abb., OPappbd. m. farb. Deckelill. Einrisse an d. Kapitalen geklebt.
ref. 3440EBParis, Delarue, Libraire Editeur, o.J. Klein-8°. 18 cm. VII, 152 Seiten. Halblederband der Zeit mit marmoriertem Bezugspapier und goldgeprägtem Rückentitel.
1933ref. 82750Pasadena Ca: For The Author 1933. First Edition. Quarto. 35cm. Publisher's maroon cloth boards titled in gilt to front board. 46pp. Internally clean light spotting to prelims fore-edge untrimmed; Light wear and bumping to extremities dulling of the cheap gilt and some darkening and soiling to the cloth; strong and solid a very good copy. Internally clean with the bookplate of Jim Ellis to the front flyleaf and a florid inscription to the facing blank: "To Jim Ellis from his friend Jack Getrich." A rather typically extravagant collection of stage magic tips tricks and techniques from Larsen Sr. the father of the intensely prolific William "Bill" Larsen Jr. and the origin of much of his stagecraft and "Impresario to the rich and famous" persona. It's probably fair to say that the Larsen's were one of the USA's most influential and long standing magical dynasties. The recipient is easy enough to identify; Jimmie Ellis one time President of the Kudner Advertising Agency in New York single-handedly responsible for the rise of the Buick Automobile Co. and widely acclaimed as a major figure in the 1950's US advertising world. Kudner were solely responsible for Buick advertising throughout the heyday of the company under Ellis's direction. A life long Republican Ellis was also instrumental in securing the popular vote for Eisenhower. For The Author unknown
1921ref. 82770London: Will Goldston Ltd 1921. Limited Edition. No statement of edition or printing; numbered 811 of an unspecified number of copies. Small quarto. Publisher's green cloth titled in gilt to spine; marbled endpapers; 490pp; illus. A crisp clean copy with faint handsoil to binding just lightly rubbed at board edges and spine ends very fresh and tight within; Very Good to Near Fine. Laid in as found are four leaflets ca. 1930s advertising products from the London purveyor of magic props L. Davenport & Co. We note that there was a simultaneous deluxe issue in red morocco and a locking clasp uniform with Goldston's other two books in the "Exclusive Secrets" trilogy. This cloth issue though less elaborate appears to be the scarcer of the two bindings. A very nice copy of this classic of modern conjuring literature surprisingly scarce and often found well-worn. Will Goldston Ltd unknown
1840ref. 68354London 1840. MAGIC AND CONJURING. The Enchanted Scrapbook; Exhibiting Pictures Which Appears and Vanishes at the Word Command. E. Wallis London n.d.c.a 1840. Small octavo 7 x 5 inches; 178 x 125 mm. This copy in contemporary floral embossed pink cloth. With matching topped slipcase. Slipcase stamped and lettered in gilt on front. Previous owner's old ink inscription on front blank dated 1840. Internally all plates are generally clean and bright. A few smudges and a light dampstain. One leaf with a bird/solider has a closed tear which has been invisibly repaired. Another leaf with a dancer/ ship has a large tear with a missing piece but it does not affect the illustration. Some minor sunning to spine and edges cloth is splitting along hinge at top of spine. Slipcase is sunned and a bit worn. Overall a very good copy especially rare in the original slipcase. With a total of 48 leaves. With twelve each of seven different full color illustrations of which include a Saint a captive bird a soldier a solider on horseback a ship a dancer and a man with bear. A beautiful copy of a magical blow book or flip book also known as a magic coloring book. This type of trick is considered the oldest example of a "manufactured prop" to be used for magic. It works by a series of small notches or incisions in the fore-margin to create tabs and depending on where the magician places their thumb they flip the leaves of a certain group revealing one set of plates. Then with a movement of the finger placement a new set of plates will be revealed. HBS 68354. $5000. London unknown
ref. 53218Derby Thomas Richardson circa 1830. FIRST EDITION circa 1830 pamphlet approximately 185 x 100 mm 7¼ x 4 inches folding hand coloured plate as frontispiece pages: 4 5-24 last page not numbered original publisher's yellow printed wrappers. Spine neatly repaired frontispiece slightly trimmed with slight loss to border not affecting image pale offset to title page upper wrapper slightly dusty near spine otherwise a very good copy. See: Raymond Toole Stott A Bibliography of English Conjuring 1581-1876 page 236 No. 718; Some Printers & Publishers of Conjuring Books and other Ephemera 1800-1850 by Trevor Hall and Percy Muir page 54. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING ALL ZOOMABLE FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST AND ALL PARCELS SENT FULLY TRACKED AND FULLY INSURED. Derby, Thomas Richardson, circa 1830.
ref. 53222London Thomas Boys and Thorp & Burch circa 1820. TITLE CONTINUED: all the Popular Tricks and Changes of the Cards &c. To which is added a Complete System of Pyrotechny; or the Art of Making Fireworks. The Whole so clearly explained as to be within the reach of the most limited Capacity. THIRD EDITION circa 1820. Small 8vo approximately 155 x 95 mm 6 x 3¾ inches 8 panel folding frontispiece with 19 images a few illustrations in the text pages: xii 13-216 plus leaf of adverts original publisher's printed boards page edges untrimmed. Head of spine chipped with loss external hinges cracked but still holding firmly on cords corners bumped and worn boards darkened slight age-browning to 1 fold of folding plate not affecting images margins have pale browning and 2 tiny chips neatly repaired occasional fox spot but overall text clean. A good copy no loose pages and still in its unrepaired original state. See Toole Stott A Bibliography of English Conjuring 1581-1876 Volume I page 97 No. 258 the imprint reversed the same as in the Roland Winder copy Thomas Boys at the beginning instead of the end. In addition to the card tricks there are numerous parlour magic tricks plus 42 pages of the art of making fireworks. See Chris Philip Bibliography of Firework Books page 48. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING ALL ZOOMABLE FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST AND ALL PARCELS SENT FULLY TRACKED AND FULLY INSURED. London, Thomas Boys, and Thorp & Burch, circa 1820. hardcover
ref. 42851London: Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co. 1979-80. 3 Parts sheets of prices and buyers names all parts illustrated original printed wrappers neat stamp to upper covers 1565 lots in total. London: Sotheby Parke Bernet & Co., 1979-80 unknown
ref. 68354A Magic Blow Book Especially Rare in the Original Slipcase MAGIC AND CONJURING. Magical Blow Book/Flip Book. The Enchanted Scrapbook; Exhibiting Pictures Which Appears and Vanishes at the Word Command. E. Wallis London n.d.c.a 1840. Small octavo 7 x 5 inches; 178 x 125 mm. This copy in contemporary floral embossed pink cloth. With matching topped slipcase. Slipcase stamped and lettered in gilt on front. Previous ownerís old ink inscription on front blank dated 1840. Internally all plates are generally clean and bright. A few smudges and a light dampstain. One leaf with a bird/solider has a closed tear which has been invisibly repaired. Another leaf with a dancer/ ship has a large tear with a missing piece but it does not affect the illustration. Some minor sunning to spine and edges cloth is splitting along hinge at top of spine. Slipcase is sunned and a bit worn. Overall a very good copy especially rare in the original slipcase. With a total of 48 leaves. With twelve each of seven different full color illustrations of which include a Saint a captive bird a soldier a solider on horseback a ship a dancer and a man with bear. A beautiful copy of a magical blow book or flip book also known as a magic coloring book. This type of trick is considered the oldest example of a "manufactured prop" to be used for magic. It works by a series of small notches or incisions in the fore-margin to create tabs and depending on where the magician places their thumb they flip the leaves of a certain group revealing one set of plates. Then with a movement of the finger placement a new set of plates will be revealed. HBS 68354. $5000 1840 hardcover books
1945ref. 13494Marietta OH: Tommy Windsor Studio 1945. Stiff yellow pictorial wrappers stapled. VG age toning & some edgewear/spine fold starting at top. 20 pp. Picture of McAthy. 8vo. Tommy Windsor Studio unknown books
1943ref. 13529Cincinnati: Silk King Studios 1943. Stiff orange pictorial wrappers stapled. Nr Fine. A nice copy. 24 pp including 4 pg publisher advert. Illustrated by Nelson Hahne. 8vo. Silk King Studios unknown books
1944ref. 13494.1n. p.: De Cimber Music Publishers 1944. Stiff pale green wrappers stapled. VG age toning & some edgewear/spine fold starting at top. 52 pp. 8vo. De Cimber Music Publishers unknown books
1944ref. 13340Richland WA: Published by Wilbur Kattner 1944. Stiff buff printed/pictorial wrappers stapled. Nr Fine spine fold age toned. A nice copy. 22 pp including index. Cover illustration by John Holoubok. 8vo. Published by Wilbur Kattner unknown books
ref. 13347Colon MI: Abbott's Magic Novelty Co n. d. Stiff yellow printed wrappers stapled. VG age toned. 22 pp. Illustrated with drawings. 8vo. Abbott's Magic Novelty Co unknown books
1941ref. 13346Cincinnati: Silk King Studios 1941. 4th edition. Stiff wrappers stapled. VG label on bottom edge of inside cover & corresponding label shadow on pg 1. Unpaginated. Illustrated. 8vo. Silk King Studios unknown books
ref. 1437London. Sotheby's. 1991. 4to. paperback auction catalogue. Sotheby's illustrated and private press books children's books and juvenalia the performing arts including magic conjuring & circus related drawings 547 items. unknown books
First Edition, 12mo, (xii), 154 pp. including the initial license leaf, with the contemporary bookplate of John Trotter, Edinburgh Lawyer, clean tear in A4 (no loss), generally a little browned, contemporary sheep, a little worn, lower joint slightly tender. The first of at least nine editions of this popular little book of secrets. The last dozen pages comprise "A miscellany of rare and curious secrets not yet toucht upon," and "Another miscellany of rare and curious experiments, useful and profitable, and altogether pleasant." These include such tricks and illusions as "To cause water to ascend," "To carry a jug... sticking without anything, unto the palm of the hand," "To break a stick upon the rim of two glasses, and not break the glasses," "How to make water boil and sparkle," "To make Letters that will soon vanish," how to achieve a strike-out at nine-pins, and the way to find out "any number under 10, being thought upon." This seventeenth-century first edition is rare, all later editions were published in the eighteenth-century. Wing locates copies at BL, Durham, NYPL, Free Library, Folger and Yale, to which the ESTC adds Illinois. Toole-Stott adds the copies owned by Dr. Grossman and Harold Adrian Smith (the latter now at Brown University). A very good copy, with Trotter's contemporary purchase note on the endpaper: "Cost twelve pence from Rot. Allane Bookseller & binder in Edro. [i.e. Edinburgh] 10. Octo. 96." Trotter has added page numbers to the title-page to form a sort of table of contents. John White went on to publish "Hocus Pocus: or, a Rich Cabinet of Legerdemain...", c. 1710. Wing W1788; Toole-Stott 694; Hall 296.
First edition, 2 vols., 288; 143pp., frontispieces, limited edition signed by the author, 10 plates, orig. cloth, d.w. slightly worn. A full-dress bibliography of conjuring running to nearly one thousand items, each with full collation and location of copies.
First edition, 2 vols., 288; 143pp., frontispieces, limited edition signed by the author, 10 plates, orig. cloth, d.w. a little torn. A full-dress bibliography of conjuring running to nearly one thousand items, each with full collation and location of copies.
175pp.avec illustrations dans le texte, br.orig., 19cm., dans la série "Petits guides pratiques du foyer" no.11, cachet
36p., illus. Pamphlet Good condition
166pp. viii, 166 p. 22 cm. Hardcover Ex-library, Good condition
88pp. 23 cm. Paperback Good condition, spiral binding Lacking the props sold with the book
