$150
Skinner, Michael. Michael Skinner's Classic Sampler. Tahoma, 1996. Black leather stamped in gold with matching slipcase, being number 74 in the publisher's limited, deluxe edition. Illustrated with photographs. 4to. Very good condition. Signed by Michael Skinner..........................With: Michael Skinner's Intimate Magic (Oakland, 1982), bearing a lengthy, warm inscription from Skinner to Herb Zarrow on the frontispiece ("IT IS WITH GREAT RESPECT AND ADMIRATION THAT I WRITE THESE WORDS TO YOU, A MAN WHO HAS BEEN A GREAT INSPIRATION TO ME FOR LO, THESE MANY YEARS…"); and Tip on a Dead Crab (New York, 1984), a novel about a close-up magician in which Skinner appears as the character Vincent Michaels. Signed and inscribed "TO MY DEAR FRIENDS HERB AND PHYLLIS…MICHAEL SKINNER ALIAS VINCENT MICHAELS.".
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2010-10-23
