Results for: Magic & Magicians
Encore III.
Ammar, Michael. Illustrated by Richard Kaufman. edited by Robert Miller.
Bluefield, West VA : Secret Service, 1988..
First edition. Very good large, thin hardcover in purple cloth. Slight wear to edges and corners. Rubbing to spine, so that title is a bit hard to read. Head and heel of spine and corners bumped. Some scuffing to covers. 91 p. w/illustrations and 4 additional pages of ads. A collection of a variety of effects, including coin, bill switch, card, center tear, and other effects.
Price: $20.00
Magical Originalia.
Arrowsmith, G. E.
New York: Louis Tannen, no date (1940's)..
Reprint. Very good in red, gold and creme wrappers. Slight wear to edges and corners. Some soiling to covers. 67 p. w/illustrations, and an additional 2 page catalog at back. The Tannen edition does not have the author's illustration as the contents list. A collection of a number of tricks, including card, silk, and psychic tricks. An attractive small volume.
Price: $12.00
Psychic Paradoxes.
Booth, John.
Los Alamitos, CA: Ridgeway Press, 1984.
Very good octavo hardcover in good dust jacket. Light wear to edges of boards with minor bumping to heel of spine. Dj has light wear and rubbing along edges with a one inch tear on upper edge of front cover and some light scuffing to covers. 240 pages with illustrations, bibliography, and index. A look at mentalism and stage magic. Includes complete reprinting of text of Magical Mentalism.
Price: $35.00
Leaves from Conjurers' Scrap Books or, Modern Magicians and Their Works.
Burlingame, H. J.
Detroit: Singing Tree Press, 1971..
Facsimile editon of original 1891 edition. Very good octavo in brick red cloth and gilt title and design on spine. Slight wear to edges and corners. A few pages have creases. 274 p. w/illustration, index, and appendix on memory codes, a patent application for Spirit summoning technology, La Stroubaika Persane, Heller's Second Sight code, and Mrs. Daffodil Downey's Light and Dark Seance. An entertaining survey of magicians across the western world and their tricks at the turn of the century.
Price: $50.00
Other Voices: Ventriloquism from B.C. to T.V.
Burns, Stanley.
Privately Printed, 2000.
Very good quarto (oversized) hardcover in very good dust jacket. Light wear to edges of boards. Dj has minor wear along edges and slight scuffing to covers. 380 pages with illustrations, bibliography, glossary, endnotes, and index. A detailed history of ventriloquism and its practitioners.
Price: $65.00
Hindu Magic.
Carrington, Hereward.
London: Annals of Psychic Science, 1909..
First edition. Fair booklet in stiff greenish-grey covers. Some wear and soiling to edges and corners. Heavy wear to lower spine. Soiling and scuffing to covers. former owner's name in ink on free endpaper, along with original oval ink-stamp of Stanyon's Magic Shop in London. 52 p. with some illustrations. A scarce and interesting pamphlet on Indian magic by Carrington, with explanations of many of the classic tricks of the fakirs and yogis.
Price: $75.00
The Magical Dilemma of Victor Neuberg.
Fuller, Jean Overton.
London: W. H. Allen, 1965.
Good octavo hardcover in good dust jacket. Some wear and rubbing to edges of boards with bumping to head and heel of spine. Dj has wear and rubbing along edges with some minor nicks and tears. Edges of dj are browned and covers are scuffed. Page edges are lightly browned. Sticker of previous owner on front free endpaper. 295 pages with illustrations, footnotes, bibliography, and index. A biography of Victor Neuburg, an associate of the mage Aleister Crowley and the poet Dylan Thomas.
Price: $40.00
Routined Manipulation Finale.
Ganson, Lewis.
New York: Louis Tannen, no date (50's) ..
Proabable first US edition. Very good octavo hardcover in blue cloth with illustrated dust jacket. Some wear to edges and cornes of boards and dust jacket. Dj has scuffing to covers. Price on dj flap legible but inked over. 2 old prices in ink on first free endpaper. 254 p. w/illustrations. A collection of effective and entertaining effects, using cards, coins, sponge balls, dice, linking rings, glasses and more, with a special section on the magic of Al Koran.
Price: $25.00
Lecture Notes.
Govan, Barry.
Australia: the author, 1976.
Presumed first printing. Very good oversized pamphlet in orange wraps, staple bound. Slight wear to edges and corners. 17 p. w/illustrations. An early collection of notes for effects by Australia's finest close-up magician, including silk & rope, dicemania, boomerang cards, computer card, patter suggestions and other card effects.
Price: $15.00
The Magic 36.
Houghton, William S.
Colon, MI: Abbott's Magic Novelty Co, 1943.
Fair hardcover in yellow library binding without dust jacket. Wear and light rubbing to edges of boards. Covers are heavily scuffed and splotched with brown marks. Name has been "whited out" on front pastedown endpaper by previous owner. Page edges are browned. Slight tear on lower edge of rear free endpaper. 72 pages with figures.
Price: $20.00
Hugard's Magic Monthly: Comprising Explanations of Sleights, Dodges, Tricks, Routines, and Other Items of Interest to Magicians by Leading Writers in the World of Magic. Volumes I, II, III, and IV.
Hugard, Jean, editor.
New York, NY: Magico Magazine, 1994.
Very good quarto hardcover in blue cloth binding without dust jacket. Light wear and rubbing to edges of boards with bumping to head and heel of spine. A small yellow stain present at top edge of last few pages. Some minor bubbling of binding on both covers. Front board is a little bowed. 328 pages with illustrations and indices for the volumes. A collection of Hugard's Magic Monthly from June 1943 to May 1947.
Price: $45.00
Hugard's Magic Monthly: Comprising Explanations of Sleights, Dodges, Tricks, Routines, and Other Items of Interest to Magicians by Leading Writers in the World of Magic. Volumes V, VI, and VII.
Hugard, Jean, editor.
New York, NY: Magico Magazine, 1994.
Very good quarto hardcover in blue cloth binding without dust jacket. Light wear and rubbing to edges of boards with slight bumping to head and heel of spine. Some minor scuffing covers with slight ring mark on back cover. 323-666 pages with illustrations plus indices for the volumes. A collection of Hugard's Magic Monthly from June 1947 to May 1950.
Price: $45.00
Hugard's Magic Monthly: Comprising Explanations of Sleights, Dodges, Tricks, Routines, and Other Items of Interest to Magicians by Leading Writers in the World of Magic. Volumes VIII, IX, and X.
Hugard, Jean, editor.
New York, NY: Magico Magazine, 1996.
Very good quarto hardcover in blue cloth binding without dust jacket. Light wear and rubbing to edges of boards with slight bumping to head and heel of spine. Some minor scuffing covers. 667-1084 pages with illustrations plus indices for the volumes. A collection of Hugard's Magic Monthly from June 1950 to May 1953.
Price: $50.00
Hugard's Magic Monthly: Comprising Explanations of Sleights, Dodges, Tricks, Routines, and Other Items of Interest to Magicians by Leading Writers in the World of Magic. Volumes XI, XII and XIII.
Hugard, Jean, editor.
New York, NY: Magico Magazine, 1996.
Very good quarto hardcover in blue cloth binding without dust jacket. Light wear and rubbing to edges of boards with slight bumping to head and heel of spine. Some minor scuffing covers with slight scratchings on back cover. 432 pages with illustrations plus indices for the volumes. A collection of Hugard's Magic Monthly from June 1953 to May 1956.
Price: $50.00
Hugard's Magic Monthly: Comprising Explanations of Sleights, Dodges, Tricks, Routines, and Other Items of Interest to Magicians by Leading Writers in the World of Magic. Volumes XIV, XV and XVI.
Hugard, Jean, editor.
New York, NY: Magico Magazine, 1997.
Very good quarto hardcover in blue cloth binding without dust jacket. Light wear and rubbing to edges of boards with slight bumping to head and heel of spine. Some minor scuffing covers. 433-576 pages (end of Volume XIV) 1-144 pages with illustrations plus indices for the volumes. A collection of Hugard's Magic Monthly from June 1956 to May 1959.
Price: $50.00
Hugard's Magic Monthly: Comprising Explanations of Sleights, Dodges, Tricks, Routines, and Other Items of Interest to Magicians by Leading Writers in the World of Magic. Volumes XVII, XVIII and XIX.
Hugard, Jean, editor.
New York, NY: Magico Magazine, 1998.
Very good quarto hardcover in blue cloth binding without dust jacket. Light wear and rubbing to edges of boards with slight bumping to head and heel of spine. Some minor scuffing covers with slight ring mark on back cover. With illustrations plus indices for the volumes. A collection of Hugard's Magic Monthly from June 1959 to May 1962.
Price: $50.00
Hugard's Magic Monthly: Comprising Explanations of Sleights, Dodges, Tricks, Routines, and Other Items of Interest to Magicians by Leading Writers in the World of Magic. Volumes XX and XXI. Master Index to Volumes I-XXI. Program Jean Hugard Testimonial
Hugard, Jean, editor. William L. Broecker, Master Index.
New York, NY: Magico Magazine, 1998.
Very good quarto hardcover in blue cloth binding without dust jacket. Light wear and rubbing to edges of boards with slight bumping to head and heel of spine. Some minor scuffing covers. Slight tear/hole on very tip of fore-edges of pages. With illustrations plus indices for the volumes. A collection of Hugard's Magic Monthly from June 1962 to February 1964 along with a master index and the testimonial.
Price: $50.00
The Prolix Spirit Writes Again!
Kattner, Wilbur.
Fort Worth, TX: the author, 1977.
2nd edition of his original work, with Bob Lynn's (aka Tony Raven) Bookplate on inside cover. Very good pamphlet in light blue wrappers. Slight wear to edges and corners. A bit of scuffing to covers. Small crease to top half. 14 p. w/a very few illustrations. An slate writing effect enabling the performer to produce spirit writing in answer to secret questions written by an audience member.
Price: $12.00
The New Jinx.
Madsen, Bill editor. Index compiled & arranged by Paul J. Siegel.
Boston: New Jinx, ca. 1970.
Bound in black with bright gilt titling to spine, rather like a dissertation. Slight wear to edges and corners. 296 p. w/illustrations, articles, effects and commentary. Front material includes indexes to all issues. Includes all the New Jinx issues from 1962-1968, and is clearly not the Kaufman and Greenberg edition. An uncommon and apparently unrecorded collected edition of this work.
Price: $175.00
Uri Geller: Magician or Mystic?
Margolis, Jonathan.
New York, NY: Welcome Rain Publishers, 1999.
Very good octavo hardcover in very good dust jacket. Light wear to edges of boards with minor bumping to head and heel of spine. Dj has light wear to edges and minor rubbing to covers. Inscribed by Uri Geller to previous owners on front free endpapers. 291 pages with illustrations and index.
Price: $45.00
A Pocketful of Miracles.
Miller, Hugh.
Bideford, Devon: The Supreme Magic Company Limited, 1978.
Very good octavo hardcover in red binding without dust jacket. Light wear along edges of boards with bumping to head and heel of spine and on corners of panels, especially the upper corners of boards. Light scuffing to covers as well. 128 pages with illustrations and index. A work featuring information on how to do a number of magical tricks.
Price: $20.00
Religion, Science, and Magic: In Concert and in Conflict.
Neusner, Joseph; Ernest S. Frerichs, and Paul Virgil McCracken Flesher, editors.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989.
Very good octavo hardcover in very good dust jacket. Light wear to edges of boards with minor bumping to head and heel of spine. Dj has light wear along edges and minor scuffing to covers. 294 pages with notes and indices. A collection of essays on how cultures have distinguished between miracles and magic, divine and diabolic, science and magic.
Price: $20.00
Jack Miller's Famous Linking Ring Routine.
Novak, Bob. Introduction by Jean Hugard.
Price: $15.00
Cups and Balls Magic.
Osborne, Tom. drawings by Bill Hanna.
Philadelphia: Kanter's Magic Shop, 1937.
First printing. Very good pamphlet in red and blue illustrated wrappers. Slight wear and soiling to edges and corners. A bit of scuffing to covers. Browning at edges, but not brittle. 60 p. w/illustrations. A collection of over 50 effects, methods and manipulations of cups and balls, including wands, loading, patter, comedy, and more.
Price: $20.00
Devilish Deceits.
Shotts, Floyd.
Cleveland, OH: Snyder's Magic Shop, no date (1970's?).
Probable First printing. Very good pamphlet in light blue wrappers. Slight wear to edges and corners. A bit of scuffing to covers. Light crease across front cover. 34 p. 16 various original and derivitive mental effects using cards, with detailed descriptions. Uncommon.
Price: $15.00
Windows to the Mind.
Siegel, Paul J. Illustrated by Al Forgione and Micky Hades.
Calgary, Alberta, Canada: Micky Hades, 1968.
First Printing. Very good oversized pamphlet in illustrated wraps, staple bound. Slight wear to edges and corners. Slight scuffing to covers. A few spots on covers. 33 single sided p. with an additional page of other books from the publisher and errata slip laid in. 24 effects covering a wide range of mentalism, with cards, slates, envelopes, newspapers, tags, and numbers. Effects use a lot of props.
Price: $18.00
The Magic Arts in Celtic Britain.
Spence, Lewis.
London: Rider & Co., No date (1940s).
Good octavo hardcover in fair dust jacket. Some wear and light rubbing along edges with bumping to head and heel of spine and on corners of covers. Dj has heavy wear and many tears along edges with some chipping. Dj is heavily scuffed and browned and dirty. Page edges are browned. 198 pages with illustrations, list of works cited, references, and index. A work on British-Celtic magic with sections on druidism, spells, mysticism, Arthur, the grail, and many other topics.
Price: $40.00
