The Mystery of Psycho: The Story of the Famous Thinking Machine; Its Triumphs, Its Secrets, An Account of its Restoration, A Souvenir of Its Performance
Chicago: John Gaughan & Associates, 1987.
Limited Edition. Staplebound. This copy is hand-numbered 328 of a limited edition of 500 copies. 11" X 8". 63pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of pictorial paper wraps. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. With black-and-white illustrations throughout and a color frontispiece featuring Harry Kellar's Psycho tipped in.
Psycho was a sophisticated automaton created by English magician and inventor, John Nevil Maskelyne (1839-1917). Maskelyne first debuted his creation at The Egyptian Hall in London in 1875, where it performed for audiences by playing the English trick-taking card game, Whisk. Very good +. Item #9987
Price: $250.00