$2,000
Jarrett, Guy. Magic and Stage Craft Technical. [New York]: 1936. Light blue textured cloth stamped in black. Illustrated with plates. 8vo. Spine and edges rubbed, front hinge starting, but sound overall. Inscribed and Signed by Jarrett on the Title Page: “New York, Jan., 21st, 1937/ To Tronelli [?]: Heere [sic] is hoping you [sic] an Artiste with a desire to be one of the best performers of magic. Guy Jarrett.” From the outset Jarrett casts himself as an outsider among magicians of his day, whom he derides with a series of metaphors, variously deploring Thurston as a “rabbit magician” and others as “furniture salesmen,” “drugstore magicians,” and “Doll House illusionists.” Little surprise, then, that the man who by his own account “can’t run a typewriter” felt compelled to hand press and bind his book rather than seek out a publisher, wondering, “Why, I am unknown in magic circles; my name’s never appeared in a magician’s magazine. Who would give me credit…?”
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2015-02-07
