$3,400
Csuri, Frank. The Csuri Notes. Faucett Ross was a tireless correspondent. Through the mail, he traded secrets with a network of the magic world's best-posted "inside men." He was also a confidant and amanuensis of Dai Vernon, and as a result, was privy to many of the magical cognoscenti's best-kept secrets. In the 1950s, Frank Csuri began mining the thousands of pages of correspondence between Ross, Charlie Miller, Paul Fox, Dai Vernon and other well-posted sleight-of-hand magicians, re-typing portions of their letters and creating what have come to be known as the Csuri Notes, notes on the various tricks and secrets these magicians had been corresponding about for years. In the decades since their compilation, these anthologies of "underground" magic secrets have circulated the magic subterra, and become legendary in their own right. With the exception of the notebooks of Dr. Jacob Daley, the Csuri Notes were never professionally published or sold; instead, Csuri produced only six copies of each set of notes and distributed them to friends. Conrad "Connie" Bush was one of those friends. Bush was a well-liked, skilled and well-known amateur magician from Prospect Park, New Jersey. Like Herb Zarrow, Bush was a professional accountant. After his death, his library was purchased by Zarrow, and with it came Bush's set of the Csuri Notes. Both Bush and Zarrow added their own notations and added considerably to the original notes, and the result is 21 thick three-ring bind Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2010-10-23
