Tricks & Traps of America; or Swindlers Quacks and Humbugs Exposed. Corfu New York: C.E. Curtiss, ca. 1900. Red pictorial wraps. 8vo. Disbound, outer corner chipped, but intact. The interior of the rear wrap includes a pictorial ad for the book Prestidigitation; or Magic Made Easy.
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2012-06-23
Tricks and Traps of America; or, Swindlers, Quacks, Humbugs and Rascals Exposed. Lehigh, N.Y., ca. 1890s. Original pictorial wraps retained in cloth-backed boards. 8vo. p. Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2017-06-10
Mysteries of the Séance and Tricks and Traps of Bogus Mediums. Boston: Lunt Brothers, 1905. Second edition. Pale blue wraps. 8vo. Very good. Nice copy. Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2012-10-27
Bamberg, Theo. Illustrated Catalogue of Magical Tricks. New York: Bamberg Magic and Novelty, 1909. Orange pictorial wraps. Profusely illustrated. 8vo. Ex-libris Carl Waring Jones. Possibly Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2013-02-02
[Programs] Collection of 12 Programs and Brochures from the collection of Dai Vernon. Including a Blackstone, Sr. souvenir and theatre program, Dante's "Trunk" book, Dante's Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2010-01-30
[Pulps] Group of five pulp gambling exposé publications. Including Card Sharpers Their Tricks Exposed by Robert-Houdin (1902), Tricks and Traps (n.d.; pages uncut), Confidence-Gambling and Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2011-01-29
[Miscellaneous] Six books and booklets on cardsharps and confidence gambling. Including two editions of Card Sharpers: Their Tricks Exposed by Robert-Houdin, red cloth (London, 1891), Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2015-06-27
[Gambling –Booklets] Five booklets on confidence gambling and card sharping. Including Tricks and Traps (ca. 1920), Card Sharper’s Tricks Exposed (ca. 1920), How Gamblers Cheat; Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2014-05-31
