[Japanese] Antiquarian Book on Magic. Circa 1880s. Paper wrappers, inside front cover with ink-colored image of a student studying a text. Block-printed illustrations of tricks with bottles and glassware, tables, boxes, and more. 5 x 3 ½”. Damp-stain on front cover, backstrip chipped.
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2017-06-10
[Miscellaneous – Antiquarian] Four antiquarian volumes on parlor magic and conjuring. Including The Parlor Magician (New York: Dick & Fitzgerald, 1863), orange pictorial boards over Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2015-04-04
[Popular Recreations] Three Antiquarian Books on Puzzles, Chemical Magic, and other Recreations. Including Chemistry and Chemical Magic (London, [1912]) by Johnson; Marvels of Invention and Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2016-12-03
[Miscellaneous – Pulps] More than thirty early twentieth century pulps on magic by Roterberg, Thurston and others. Featuring Conjuring With Cards (1898) by Ellis Stanyon, Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2015-04-04
[Miscellaneous] Group of 23 Vintage Volumes on Magic and Conjuring. Including “Magic Wand” (Vols. 1-3 [1910-1913] and Vols. 5-9 [1914-1921]) in two finely bound three-quarter Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2016-12-03
Wallen, Lieutenant. Lieutenant Wallen’s Book on Ventriloquism/Black Magic. New York: Popular Pub. Co., ca. 1880. 16 pp., unnumbered. Pink pictorial wraps. Illustrated with woodcuts. 12mo. Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2012-05-13
Ganson, Lewis. The Dai Vernon Book of Magic. London: Unique Magic Studio, [1957]. Black pebbled cloth, spine stamped in gold. Illustrated with photographs. 8vo. Good. Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2012-10-27
[Blow Book] Antique Magic Blow Book. N.p., ca. 1870s. Contemporary plain wraps. Illustrated with hand-colored engraved plates, including images of a sea captain, newlyweds, old Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2016-12-03
Ganson, Lewis. The Dai Vernon Book of Magic. London: Harry Stanley, (1957). Publisher’s pebbled black buckram, pictorial dust-wrapper. Signed twice by Vernon, inscribed on the Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2016-12-03
[Miscellaneous – Conjuring] More than 35 books on magic and conjuring. Including Stanyon’s Magic (L&L, 1996); Zarrow: A Lifetime of Magic (2008) by Ben; Oriental Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2015-04-04
Ganson, Lewis. The Dai Vernon Book of Magic. London: Unique Magic Studio, [1957]. Restricted First Edition, bound in pebbled maroon leather, spine gilt stamped, with Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2015-05-31
