$325
[Blackstone] Harry Blackstone, Sr. ’s Collected Secret Instruction Book. Being a bound volume of typescripts and mimeographed instructions for various magic tricks, including effects using dealer-made apparatus (by Donald Holmes and others), as well as sleight-of-hand and mathematical tricks published and/or invented by Charles T. Jordan, Ellis Stanyon, and Henry Hardin. Also included are explanatory programs of several magicians. Some crude illustrations accompany the text. Bound in black cloth. 4to. Binding in need of repair, contents sound. Inscribed and signed inside the front cover in pencil, “Collected by and property of Harry Blackstone, Colon Michigan.”
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2012-10-27
