Blackpool: Ellis Family, ca. 1910. Fifth Edition. Octavo (19.5cm.); photo-illustrated staple bound self-wrappers; 15pp.; illus. Light wear and foxing to extremities, small chip at spine crown, else Very Good and sound. Oft-reprinted "Natural Drawing-Room Conjuring" how-to manual, the preface to this edition stating that twenty-seven copies have already been..... More
St. Louis: Great Western Printing Co., Show Printers and Engravers, 1886. Two-sided herald (10.5" x 28") printed in black on yellow newsprint. Text on bottom of each side reads "Black on Yellow, Car No. 1 Great Western Printing Co., Show Printers and Engravers, St. Louis. No. 4," with "Binghamton Mon..... More
New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1931. Presumed First Edition. Octavo; publisher's cloth in pictorial dust jacket; [8],238,[8](ads)pp.; frontispiece, illus. throughout text. Jacket extremities rather worn with loss at spine crown and rear panel touching text without loss of meaning, long closed tear crudely tape repaired along verso; general dust soil..... More
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Pasadena: Mike Caveney’s Magic Words, 2013. First Edition. Signed on each half title by Caveney to fellow magician and scholar, the sword-swallower and late Freakatorium proprietor Johnny Fox with inscriptions (Wonders) “For Johnny Fox | Never stop wondering. With best regards from your old friend… Mike Caveney 2014” and (Conference..... More
New York: E.F. Applegate, 1850. First Edition. Octavo (21.5cm.); removed; 35pp.; illus., title paged printed within decorative border. Minor dust-soil and light wear from handling, else a Very Good, albeit imperfect copy, lacking original wrappers. Bogus travelogue of high-stakes adventuring in Central America, featuring Pedro Velasquez of San Salvador..... More
N.p.: ca. 1940. First Edition. Octavo (23cm.); publisher's tan staple bound card wrappers; [8]pp.; photographic illus. throughout. Wrappers rather soiled with faint ring stain to upper cover, some biopredation along bottom margin of rear cover, else Very Good, internally sound. The first of two short memoirs of Ray R...... More
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Philadelphia: Van Matre, 1955-1959. 42 volumes; quarto (ca. 28cm.); all in pictorial variously-colored staple bound offset self wrappers, often recycling cover art from past issues; illus. throughout, internal text usually printed mimeo from typescript. Publication sequence as follows: Nos. 188, 197-9, 201-2, 206-8, 213, 216, 218-20, 223-4, 227-8, 230-3, 238..... More