Results for: Magic & Magicians
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
Dunninger.
Buckner, Charles A.
the author, 1996.
Oversized. Signed by the author to Marcello Truzzi, noted sociologist, amateaur magician, and researcher of alternative science. Truzzi is also acknowledged in the introduction as helping with this work. Slight scuffing to covers back top corner creased. 120+ pages printed on one side only, with many illustrations of Dunninger promotional material. An uncommon self published work, rising from a lecture on Dunninger's success and the role that promotion and promotional material played that Buckner did for the Psychic Entertainers Association (Buckner notes that he has excluded promotional material regarding Dunninger's medium exposes and the Himber controversy). Buckner became interested in Dunniger though his friendship with David Lustig, and a number of entries in the book discuss Lustig as well andf touched on his relationship with Dunninger. Much of the material illustrated in the book came from Lustig.
Price: $100.00
The Experience of Magic.
Burger, Eugene.
Washington DC: Kaufman & Greenberg, 1989.
Oversized. SIGNED by Burger on endpaper. Slight wear to edges and corners of dust jacket. 141 p. w/illustrations by Kaufman. A collection of magic philosophy, anecdotes and performance ideas by Burger, master magician. Includes 8 of his routines.
Price: $100.00
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
Side-Show and Animal Tricks : Tricks of the Side-Show Performer, Animal Tricks, Gamblers' Tricks, Juggling Secrets, Stage Effects, Ventriloquism, Etc., Etc.
Carrington, Hereward.
Kansas City, MO: A. M. Wilson, M.D. / The Sphinx, 1913.
Duodecimo (12 mo, less than 7.5 inches tall) stapled pamphlet in original dark blue covers with black text. Some wear to edes and corners of covers, with a small worn square on cover where an old price sticker might have been. Staples a bit rusty. Bookplate of Dr. Frank E. Blaisdelll Jr., whose father also had an interest in magic. 66 p. with 2 illustrations. Uncommon. Carrington (1880 - 1958) was a member of both the Society for Psychical Research in England and the American Society for Psychical Research at different times and an ardent investigator of Spiritualism his entire life. He is best known perhaps for his 1924 investigation, with Houdini and others of Mina "Margery" Crandon, who he defended while Houdini and others believed her a fraud. Others he helped research included Eusapia Palladino, Esther Cox, and Eileen Garrett.
Price: $140.00
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
Testament of R. W. Hall [ with bookplate of magic collector Harlan H. Taylor ].
Hall, Capt. Trevor. Introduction by H. Park Shackleton.
London: Academy of Recorded Crafts, Arts, & Sciences, [ 1945/46 ].
Thin octavo. Greenish-grey cloth binding with reddish brown titles on cover with border and lettering on spine. Fading to spine, Corners bumped, and the back cover has a reddish stain from top left corner down to lower left corner. Former owner Dr. Taylor has embossed address on firs tand last endpaper, along with a his personal stamp (a hand with a scalpel and his name). he also put in his bookplate of a rabbit coming out of a hat on the first pastedown. 116 p. w/illustrations and additional 2 p. catalog from the publisher. A short work with a biographic sketch of card magician Hull (1883-1943) of Ohio, a number of effects illustrated with photographs, and a short bibliography of his published work.
Price: $75.00
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 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
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
Notes to Houdini !!!
Silverman, Kenneth.
Washington DC: Kaufman & Greenberg, 1996.
Limited unnumbered edition of 500 copies. Very small spot to top edge of text block near spine. Dust jacket has a small ripple to middle back cover. 182 p. w/illustrations, notes. The adjunct volume to Silverman's HOUDINI !!!, with all the in-depth notes and illustrations not in his biography due to space and audience, as well as a few new points. . As Silverman points out in his introduction, the additional material in this work will be of most interest to magicians and collectors. An uncommon work and one that shows the great passion of an author for his subject and appreciation of his readers.
Price: $220.00
The Encyclopedia of Magic and Magicians.
Waters, T. A.
New York, NY: Facts on File Publications, 1988.
Quarto-sized (oversized). Light wear along edges of boards. Dj has wear and rubbing with many tears including a one inch tear on head of spine and another tear, one inch slit, along gutter of dj's front cover. Loose binding between rear free endpapers on upper portion. 372 pages with illustrations. An alphabetically orgnized reference work of magicians and their tricks.
Price: $30.00
