£1,250
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs - Including the Trevor Dawson Magic Collection | 613
Auction: 30 September 2020 at 11:00 BST
Frost, Thomas. The Old Showman, 1874;
Frost, Thomas. The Lives of the Conjurors. 1876;
Bodie, W. Stage Stories. N.d., modern half calf;
Houdin, R. Memoirs. Philadelphia, 1859, spotted, rebacked;
The Magician’s Own Book or Whole Art of Conjuring. New York: Dick & Fitzgerald, 1857. First edition, frontispiece, additional title, illustrations, original brown pictorial cloth gilt, a little dampstaining, slightly rubbed, upper hinge weak;
Dick & Fitzgerald, [1857], some spotting, hinges weak;
Hone, W. The Every Day Book, 1831, contemporary half calf;
Hone, W. Ancient Mysteries Described, 1823, ex-library, later cloth;
Mayo, H. Popular Superstitions. Philadelphia, 1852, rebacked;
The Secrets of Ancient and Modern Magic. N.Y. Wehman Bros. [c.1880], wrappers bound in;
The Youth’s Handbook of Entertaining Knowledge. 1844, 2 volumes;
Ganthony, R. Practical Ventriloquism. 1893;
[Wiljalba Frikell]. Parlor Tricks with Cards, N.Y., 1863, pictorial boards;
Martin, W. The Book of Sport, 1851 and 1853, one rebacked;
Gilbert, C. Endless Mirth and Amusement. Ex-library Stanley Collins, with bookplate;
Summers, T. Magic, Pretended Miracles. Nashville, 1857;
Mitchell, T. Key to Ghostism. N.Y., 1880, pictorial cloth;
Hood, T. Excursions into Puzzledom, 1879, J.B. Findlay copy with bookplate, pictorial cloth;
Grimes J. Compendium of the Phreno-Philosophy of Human Nature. Boston, 1853, pictorial cloth, slightly dampstained;
The Sociable 1001 Home Amusements, N.Y. [c.1858], rebacked;
Bullivant, C. The Drawing Room Entertainer. 1904, pictorial cloth;
Lane, E.W. Manners & Customs of the Modern Egyptians. 1890, hinges weak;
Hingston, E. The Genial Showman. 1871, 3rd edition;
Roterberg, A. Card Tricks, Chicago [c.1902], worn, wrappers bound in;
New Era Card Tricks. 2004;
The Magic Lantern… how to Raise a Ghost. 1886, pictorial boards, rebacked;
Preston, P. The Fireside Magician. N.Y.: [1870], pictorial boards, rubbed, rebacked;
The Play Room, N.Y. [1866], pictorial boards, worn, rebacked;
R.T. Society. Remarkable Delusions, [c.1860], modern green quarter morocco;
Raymond, Prof. Parlor Pastimes. N.Y. [1875], Margaret Yates Magic Library bookplate, quarter morocco, wrappers bound in;
Timbs, J. Things not Generally Known. 1851;
Timbs, J. Stories of Inventors and Discoveries. 1860;
Planche, F. Evening Amusements. Philadelphia, [1872], lacks half title and endpapers;
Garenne, H. The Art of Modern Conjuring, [c.1855], ex Order of the Magi, modern quarter morocco;
Hoffmann, Prof. Modern Magic. [n.d.], 15th edition, pictorial cloth;
Scot, R. The Discoverie of Witchcraft. 1995;
Mephisto. Huis Catalogus – 9, wrappers;
Foucaud, Edouard. The Book of Illustrious Mechanics. N.Y., 1846, rebacked;
Philosophy in Sport, 1857, rebacked;
Gay, J. The Fables, 1889;
Good, A. Magic Experiments. Philadelphia, [1894], pictorial cloth;
Goldston, W. The Young Conjuror. Part 2, pictorial boards;
Shaw, W. Magic Up to Date, [1896], wrappers bound in;
and a few pamphlets and catalogues including Nelson Enterprises and The Magical Apparatus Co., n.d.;
Marshall, A. Beating a Dead Horse. 2020, number 30/69 copies signed, leather bound Gold Collector’s edition;
Karr, Todd. The Silence of Chung Ling Soo. Miracle Factory, 2001, no. 42/75 copies signed, dw., collector’s box;
Steele, M. Adelaide Hermann. Queen of Magic. 2012, number 55/125 copies signed, slipcase;
Waller, C. Magical Nights at the Theatre, number 334/1000 copies, signed, dw;
Bertram, Charles. Isn’t it Wonderful ? A History of Magic & Mystery, 1899. Illustrations, later cloth;
“Selbit”. The Magician’s Handbook. c.1904, worn;
Ganthony, R. Practical Ventriloquism. 1893, frontispiece, illustrations;
Cockton, Henry. The Life and Adventures of Valentine Vox the Ventriloquist, [n.d., but c. 1900];
Burlinghame, H. Hermann the Great. Chicago, 1897, J.B. Findlay bookplate;
Jarrett, J. The Complete Jarrett. The Classic 1936 text…, 2011;
Devant, D. Secrets of My Magic. 1936;
Ganson, L. Dai Vernon’s Tribute to Nate Leipzig, [n.d.];
Goldston, Will. Tricks and Illusions, 1955;
Harbin, R. The Genius of Robert Harbin. 1997, dw;
Prevost, J. Clever and Pleasant Inventions, Part 1. 1998, facsimile edition;
Rioboo, R. Thinking the Impossible. 2012, dw;
Cramer, W. Hanky Panky. [n.d., but c. 1880]; another copy, 1902;
The Wizard, an Illustrated Monthly Journal for Conjurors. Vols. 1-2 and 4, 1905-10, cloth;
Steinmeyer, J. The Glorious Deception. Chung Ling Soo, 2005, dw;
Scot, R. The Discoveries of Witchcraft. 1972, wrappers;
Goldin, H. It’s fun to be fooled. [n.d.], ex-library copy, poor;
The Magical World. Vol. 1 only, 1910-11, cloth;
Lorrayne, H. Close Up Card Magic. 1962;
Devant, D. My Magical Life. 1931
Provenance: From the collection of the Late Trevor Dawson