Magic, Conjuring, And Showmanship from

London: Arco Publications, 1957. 81pp, bw ills. Blue cloth in jacket. Jacket price clipped with some foxing and slight edge wear. Bookseller label on front pastedown. Nice vintage conjuring book.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

London: Hutchinson & Co, 1936. 288pp, index, appendix, diagrams, bw photos. Red cloth, no jacket. Slight fading to spine, some foxing to prelims, foxing to page edges. Nice vintage book on conjuring.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. 8vo.

London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1955. 259pp,diagrams. Red cloth in jacket. Jacket spine toned, some foxing to jacket. Bookseller label on front pastedown, light foxing to prelims, foxing to page edges. Nice vintage book on conjuring, originally published in 1908 and revised in 1925.. Revised Edition, Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

New York: Newmarket Press, 1985. ix, 230pp, indedx, appendices, bibliography, num bw ills. Or card. Near new. The classic history including secrets behind the most popular magic tricks with over 250 photos and drawings of magic effects.. Second Printing. Soft Cover. Very Good. 4to.

Canberra: Australian Army Headquaters, 1969. 148ppbw ills. Or green card covers. Minor edge wea rand minor surface silverfishing to covers. Restricted Australian Army publication form the Vietnam War era.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. Small 4to.

London: Satin Publications, 2006. vii, 310pp, appendix, bw ills. Or black cloth in jacker. Minor edge wear ro jacket. The author ran away to join the circus, married inot a great circus dynasty and started his own successful circus. Addicted to cocaine and sex, he cleaned up his act after an arrest for cocaine possesion and went to successful tours… Read more about this item

New York: HarperCollins, 2012. x, 301pp, glossary. Or boards in jacket. Near new.The author's quest to join the ranks of master magicians.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

New York: Atria Books, 2006. xiv. 592pp, index, bw ills, pictorial endpapers. or cloth backed boards in jacket. Small scuff at top edge of front board.. Thrid Printing Thus. Hard Cover. Very Good/Fine. 8vo.

New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1982. xiii, 178pp, index, num bw diagrams. Or black cloth in jacket. Small scuff and short tear to jacket. More than eighty easy-to-perform tricks from a master magician.. First Edition. Hard. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Kaufman, Richard.. 8vo.

Amherst: Prometheus Books., 1997. 441pp, b/w ills, glossary, bibliography, index. Prev owner's initials in yellow marker written large on the lower page edges by the spine foot. Papered boards in dust-jacket. The many examples and explanations of the art of misdirection are among the highlights of the book.. Reprint. Hard Cover. Near Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.

New York: New American Library, 1976. Introduction and History of Magic by Henry Ridgely Evans. viii, 247pp, b/w ills. Pictorial card cover.. First Plume Printing. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo.

London: Mandarin, 1994. 338pp, index, bibliography, notes, bw ills. Or card covers. Front cover creased, page edges/margins toned/foxed. The story of the most acclaimed escapologist of all time.. First Trade Edition. Trade Paperback. Very Good. 8vo.

Portsmouth: Percy Naldrett 96pp, bw ills. Or textured green wraps with string binding. Some edge wear and toning to covers, bottom 3cm of spine split, page corners creased and dealer seal/label on title page. No date - c1927. Eighth in a series of magic trick collections. Nice older volume.. Apparent First. Soft Cover. Near Very Good. 8vo.

Not Stated: Chas. C. Eastman, 1932. 14pp. Or textured green wraps with stencilled pages. Minor edge wear and crease to front cover. Collection of magic tricks using playing cards.. Not Stated. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo.

Colon, Mich.: Abbott's Magic Novelty Company 50pp. Or pale green stapled wraps. Number written on front cover, bumped at corners. No date- c1930s. Collection of 18 magic tricks.. Not Stated. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo.

Colon, Mich.: Abbott's Magic Novelty Company, 1953. Introduction by Percy Abbott. 47 pages, line drawings. Some light foxing and wear. Pictorial stapled card cover. A collection of effects Adrian Smith used, all with the twists given to make them adaptable for more extensive presentation. The tricks involve billard balls, cards, coins, knots and shoe laces. . First Edition. Soft Cover.… Read more about this item

Portsmouth: Percy Naldrett, 1925. 93pp, bw ills. Or textured green wraps with string binding. Minor edge wear and crease to front cover. Sixth in a series of magic trick collections. Nice older volume.. First Edition. Soft Cover. Very Good. 8vo.

London: L.D. And Co 16 pages, line drawings. Booklet with one rusty staple. The pages are torn to about 3 cm from the spine head. 'Six new and great levitations of humans that can be used under modern conditions': So You Want to Float a Lady; Grant's Aerial Suspension; Parlour Asrah Levitation; Best Yet Levitation; Grant's Miracle Suspension; Surrounded Type;… Read more about this item

New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1978. 191 pages, b/w ills (photos, posters, playbills, Houdiniana) throughout, index. Cloth boards in dust-jacket. The book presents a panorama of the Master Magician's life, the art that he practiced, and the colorful times in which he lived. . Reprint. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. 4to.

New York: Bell Publishing Company, 1989. 279pp, illustrated with 16 b/w photos, line drawings. Cloth boards in dust-jacket. This 'source book of the tricks and techniques of the world's most famous illusionist reveals the world or professional magic at its best'.. Reprint. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo.