Magic, a collection, including
Steinmeyer, Jim.
£813
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs
Auction: 30 September 2020 at 11:00 BST
Description
Discovering Invisibility. 2001, number 42 of 75 copies signed by the author;
Robson, J.P. The Life and Adventures of the Far-Famed Billy Purvis. Newcastle, 1849, frontispiece, original pictorial boards, rebacked with blue morocco gilt;
Maccabe, F. The Art of Ventriloquism. F. Warne, 1875, pictorial boards, rubbed, rebacked with maroon morocco;
Hoffmann, Professor. Modern Magic. 1889. 7th edition, illustrations, original pictorial cloth, rubbed, Magic Circle Chris Carlton bookplate;
Beedie, Professor. Conjuring up-to-date. [c.1890], wrappers bound in;
Aldine, publishers. Magnetic and Electrical Tricks. [1895], pictorial wrappers bound in;
Goldston, Will. Will Goldston's Card System of Exclusive Magical Secrets. c.1928;
Goldston, Will. Card & Ball Tricks with Patter. [n.d.], somewhat soiled, bound with The Magazine of Magic, vol. 1 no. 2, 1914, cloth;
Hull, Burling. The Encyclopaedia of Stage Illusions, edited by Ormond McGill. Oakland, 1980, presentation copy from Ormond McGill, dustwrapper;
Rauscher, W.V. The Great Raymond. Short Hills, 1996, dustwrapper;
Dawes, E.A. The Great Lyle. number 232 of 1000 copies, dustwrapper;
Bailey, M. The Magic Business.1988, wrappers;
Andrews, Val. Seven Keys of Kalanag. 1987, wrappers bound in;
Kaufman, R. Gary Kurtz Unexplainable Acts. 1990, dustwrapper;
Buckingham, G. It's easier than you think. 1952;
Sharpe, A. Expert Card Conjuring. 1968, number 106 of a limited deluxe edition;
Hull, Burling. Thirty Three Rope Ties and Chain Releases. c. 1915, inscriptions and soiling to title, later cloth;
Marlo, Edward. The Cardician. 1953, red quarter morocco, wrappers bound in;
Harbin, Robert. Harbincadabra. 1979, number 75 of a de luxe edition limited to 100 copies, leather binding gilt;
Bobo, J.J. Modern Coin Magic. Minneapolis, 1952;
Pratt, Bert. Browsing around in Magic. 1972, number 26 of 500 copies, wrappers bound in;
Andrews, Val. Murray. 1974, presentation copy to Rey, dustwrapper;
Hardeen. Life and History of Hardeen. wrappers bound in;
Aunt Kate's Conjuring & Parlour Magic. n.d., rather soiled wrappers bound in (quantity)
Footnote
Provenance: From the collection of the Late Trevor Dawson