New York: Swann Auction Galleries, 2008. Paperback. 9 1/2" X 6 1/2". 300 items. Mild edgewear to color pictorial wraps featuring 1898 Harry Kellar poster, with faint crease to rear corner. Binding is firm and sound. Pages are clean and unmarked. Laid in is an original postcard advertising the auction..... More
New York: Pocket Books, 1989. Paperback. 8 1/4" X 5 1/4". 189pp. Light rubbing to covers and edges. Price sticker to inside of front cover. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is firm and sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Before starring in Night Court on television, Harry Anderson performed as a magician/comedian/con..... More
Rolling Bay, Washington: Rolling Bay Press, 1994. Limited Edition. Hardcover. Edition limited to 1000, this being number 156. 11 1/4" X 8 1/2". Dust jacket slighty oversize vertically, with expected wear at overhanging top edge, bumping to top extremities and crease to top edge. Green cloth over boards, with upper..... More
New York: Newmarket Press, 1985. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed and inscribed to previous owner by Harry Blackstone, Jr. to front free endpaper. Stated first edition, with full number line indicating first printing. 11" X 8 3/8". viii, [ii], 230pp. Moderate wear to pictorial dust jacket, with small tears to edges..... More
Pasadena, California: Magical Publications, 1991. Second Printing. Hardcover. 10 1/4" X 7 1/4". 137pp. Presents nicely in protective archival sleeved dust jacket. Bound in red cloth, with upper board and spine lettered in gilt. Gentle bumping to head and tail of spine. Binding is firm and sound. Small crease to..... More
Pasadena, California: Mike Caveney's Magic Words, 1995. Limited First Edition. Hardcover. Signed and inscribed by Mike Caveney to previous owner and dated 1996 to half-title. Edition limited to 1000 copies, this being number 339. 11 3/4" X 9 3/8". 375pp. Light edgewear to pictorial dust jacket. Bound in full dark..... More
Pasadena, California: Magical Publications, 1987. Limited Edition, First Edition. Hardcover. Signed and inscribed to previous owner by Mike Caveney, dated 1993, to title page. Edition limited to 1000, with this being number 402. 10 1/4" X 7 1/8". 133pp. Bound in full forest green cloth, with title stamped in gilt..... More
Pasadena, California: Mike Caveney's Magic Words, 1999. Limited First Edition. Hardcover. Signed and inscribed by Mike Caveney and William Rauscher to previous owner and dated 1999 to title page. Edition limited to 1000 copies, this being number 136. Additional ephemera laid in: reproduction Le Roy, Talma & Bosco publicity handbill..... More
Pasadena, California: Mike Caveney's Magic Words, 2008. Deluxe, Slip-Cased Limited First Edition. Hardcover. Deluxe, slip-cased edition limited to 150 copies, this being number 71. Signed by David Charvet and Frances, Madeline, and Eugene Willard. 9" X 11 3/8". 370pp. Quarter-bound in bonded brown leather with light brown tent canvas cloth..... More
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Seattle: The Miracle Factory, 2002. Limited First Edition. Hardcover. Edition limited to 100, this being number 25 and signed by Stuart Cramer, Todd Karr, and Katlyn Breene to hand-lettered limited edition statement featuring a hand-painted rose by Isabelle and Daniel Hug, pasted in to front free endpaper. Laid in is..... More
Washington DC: Kaufman and Co., 1998. Limited First Edition. Hardcover. Edition limited to 500 copies. First edition with full number line indicating first printing. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". 184pp; plus appendices and index. Bound in red cloth over boards, with spine backed in black and both upper board and..... More
Leicestershire: Matador, 2015. Hardcover. Signed with best wishes by Trevor Dawson to front free endpaper. 10" X 6 7/8". ix, 64pp. Mild edgewear to dust jacket. Textured green paper over boards, with spine lettered in silver. Bumping to tail of spine, else fine. Binding is firm and sound. Pages are..... More
Hardcover. Shelf lot collection of 13 books about magic history, illusion, conjuring, Houdini, and other related topics. All are in generally very good condition. Dunninger's Complete Encyclopedia of Magic by Joseph Dunninger The World's Greatest Magic Presenting Houdini: His Life and Art by The Amazing Randi and Bert Randolph Sugar Houdini Art & Magic..... More
Chicago: Squash Publishing, 2005. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed and inscribed to previous owner "with best wishes and cheers" by Gabe Fajuri and dated 4/7/05 to title page. Stated first edition, with full number line indicating first printing. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". x, 136pp. Mild shelfwear to pictorial dust jacket..... More
London: Jonathan Cape, 1987. Hardcover. Signed by Paul Daniels in ink to half-title page. 10" X 7 1/4". 287pp. Very mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of price-clipped dust jacket. Mild rubbing to edges of blue cloth over boards. Spine lettered in gilt. Remainder marks to top edge..... More
New York: BoxOffice Books, 2009. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed by John Harrison to special Spellbound pictorial label to front free endpaper. Stated first edition, with full number line indicating first printing. 9 1/4" X 6 1/8". xv, 424pp. Mild shelfwear to pictorial dust jacket. Blue paper over boards, with spine..... More
Burbank, California: Hahne, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. Signed and inscribed to previous owner by Jim Steinmeyer to half-title "with all best wishes and in the spirit of Mr. Jarrett" and dated June 2001. 8 3/4" X 11 3/8". 279pp. Dark blue cloth over boards, with spine backed in lighter blue..... More
Chicago: Magic, Inc., 1981. First Edition. Hardcover. 11 3/8" X 8 7/8". 185pp, plus one-page index. Slightly oversize dust jacket shows edgewear, with very small closed tears to extremities and light scattered rubbing. Gray cloth over boards, with upper board and spine lettered in silver. Mild wear to binding, with..... More
New York: Villard Books, 1987. Paperback. 11 1/4" X 7 3/4". 340pp. Moderate wear to pictorial dust jacket, with small tears to edges and extremities and light dust soiling. Red paper over boards with spine backed in black cloth and lettered in red. Moderate wear to binding, with edgewear and..... More
New York: Atria Books, 2006. First Edition. Hardcover. Stated first edition, with full number line indicating first printing. 9 1/2" X 6 1/2". xiv, 592pp. Faint shelfwear to unclipped pictorial dust jacket. Black paper over boards, with Houdini's visage stamped in blind to upper board and spine lettered in metallic..... More
Seattle: The Miracle Factory, 2001. First Edition. Hardcover. 10 1/4" X 8 1/4". 488pp. Mild shelfwear to pictorial dust jacket featuring "Mystic" by Katlyn Breene and "Thinker" poster advertising Chung Ling Soo. Bound in black cloth over boards, with upper board and spine lettered in gilt. Light shelfwear, if any..... More
n.p. Privately Printed, 2014. First Edition. Hardcover. 9 1/2" X 6 3/8". xviii, 237pp. Mild shelfwear to pictorial dust jacket, with bumping to tail of spine. Red cloth over boards, with spine lettered in gilt. Moderate wear to binding, with bumping to head and tail of spine. Binding is firm..... More
Alhambra, California: Alhambra Publishing, 1973. Paperback. 8 1/2" x 5 1/2". 50pp. Mild shelf wear to paperback cover wraps. Photos by Tally Stouffer. The "most comprehensive study of card cheating ever published" according to the text on the back cover. Lampkin published the book, ostensibly, to help people learn how..... More
Pasadena, California: Magical Publications, 1989. Limited Edition, First Edition. Hardcover. Edition limited to 1000, with this being number 879. 10 1/4" X 7 1/8". 201pp. Bound in full burgundy cloth, with title stamped in gilt to upper board and spine. Bumping to tail of spine and spot of dust soiling..... More
Glenwood, Illinois: David Meyer Magic Books, 1998. Hardcover. 11 3/8" x 8 5/8". 113pp. Very good+ dust jacket over green cloth hardcover, with gilt lettering and designs. Signed and inscribed by author to previous owner. From the dust jacket flap: In the last half of the 19th century hardly a...... More
