$375
Gibson, Walter. Large collection of Walter Gibson ephemera. Including a five-page typescript for “The Game of Houdini’s Escapes,” which outlines the properties and mode of play of a proposed Houdini board game, along with several pages of drafts and, and on a separate sheet of lined paper, a rudimentary sketch of the board layout, presumably in Gibson’s hand; in a separate folder, more than twenty copied typescript pages of chapter openings and outlines to Gibson’s book Houdini on Magic; a large folder of pencil sketches on tracing paper to the layout of an unknown book on card magic; a large file of newspaper crime clippings belonging to Gibson, filed under such terms as “Vice,” “Moonshining,” “Smuggling,” “Spies,” and others; correspondence and newsletters from the S.A.M. chapter to which Gibson belonged, and an assortment of other mailings to Gibson; four booklets by Gibson; and other miscellaneous publications and ephemera bearing on Gibson.
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2015-02-07
