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$2,200

Roltair, Henry. Tricks with Cards. New York [?], ca. 1890 [?]. Blue pictorial wraps. Illustrated. 12mo. Faint vertical central fold, wraps worn; fair condition. Still, a scarce chapbook/pitchbook from this important and influential American magician and illusion designer.


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Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter

Date:
2012-05-13

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[Miscellaneous] Collection of over 100 vintage and contemporary magic books and booklets. Including Robert Heller: Music and Mystery by Koval (1985), Tricks with Prepared Cards Read more…


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[Magic Books] Group of over 30 softbound books about magic tricks and magicians. From the library of Paul Fox, some with Fox's name penciled in, Read more…


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2010-10-23


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Hatton, Henry (P.H. Cannon). Henry Hatton Brochure Original Artwork. New Jersey [?], ca. 1900. Fine pen-and-ink artwork for a brochure of Hatton’s, featuring the production Read more…


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Thomas, Henry Atwell (1834-1904) Jas. S. Maffitt Pantomimist. New York: Henry A. Thomas Artistic Lith., 50 Bleecker St., 1873. Poster, monochromatic white-on-black image with a Read more…


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Date:
2019-11-11


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Blackstone, Harry. Blackstone’s Modern Card Tricks and Secrets of Magic. New York: Garden City, 1941. Black cloth, stamped in red, with jacket. Illustrated. 8vo. With Read more…


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Date:
2015-10-31


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Hatton, Henry and Adrian Plate. Magicians’ Tricks: How They are Done. Two editions; New York: Century, 1910 (First Edition); and 1912 (Third Edition). Pictorial tan Read more…


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Potter & Potter

Date:
2015-02-07


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$2,800

Dean, Henry. Wonderful Magical Tricks; or Hocus Pocus. London: Edwin Pearson, 1873. Gathering of four leaves, illustrated with woodcuts, in cloth-backed plain boards. 4to. p. Read more…


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Date:
2017-06-10


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$400

Blackstone, Harry (Henry Boughton). Blackstone’s Modern Card Tricks and Secrets of Magic. Garden City: Garden City Publishing, 1941. Grey cloth with pictorial jacket, well illustrated. Read more…


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Date:
2014-02-08


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$6,150

Edmund Henry Osthaus (American, 1858-1928) Alpine Vista Signed and inscribed indistinctly "Edm Osthaus/..." l.l. Oil on canvas, 35 x 46 1/2 in. (89.0 x 118.0 Read more…


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Skinner

Date:
2018-05-11


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Erie, Pennsylvania: Erie Litho. Co., ca. 1917. Iconic color lithograph depicts a striking portrait of the Chicago-born magician in his earliest days as Blackstone. Red Read more…


Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter

Date:
2017-02-04