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[Magic History] Group of over 40 publications about magic history and collecting. Including The Wonder Girl by David P. Abbott (1992), Oscar Eliason The Original Dante the Great by Kent Blackmore (1987), Randall Williams King of Showmen by Vanessa Toulmin (1998), European Jewish Magicians by Hannes Holler (1999), The Perennial Mystics and Yankee Magic Collector (incomplete files), souvenir programs from the LA Conference on Magic History, and many more. Most bound in pictorial wraps. Sizes vary. Condition generally good.


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2012-05-13

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