The Arvi Mysteries. Leeds, Alf Cooke Ltd., 1915. Three-sheet (38 ½ x 88 ½”) color lithographed poster bearing specters and ghostly female forms swirling about a pince nez and moustache-clad magician, standing in front of the ocean. Designed by Jim Affleck. Minor restoration and over-coloring at folds, closed tears at borders. A-.
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2012-10-27
The Arvi Mysteries. Leeds, Alf Cooke Ltd., 1915. Three-sheet (38 ½ x 88 ½”) color lithographed poster bearing specters and ghostly female forms swirling about Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2015-02-07
[Arvi, Edouin] The Arvi Mysteries. [London], 1910. Die-cut wrappers, twine-bound, revealing a half-tone portrait of the illusionist. 24 pages. Illustrated with plates of nude women, Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2016-12-03
Chung Ling Soo (William Ellsworth Robinson). The Two Mysteries. Ancient and Modern. London: Weiner, ca. 1915. Color lithograph depicting the robed magician standing before the Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2016-12-03
[Escapes and Houdini] Group of eleven publications about escape tricks and Houdini. Including Learn How be a Handcuff King and Mystery Man (1940s; two editions); Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2014-08-23
[Miscellaneous] Group of 25 Magic History and Reference Volumes and Pamphlets. Including Houdini's History of Magic in Boston 1792-1915 (1983); The Milbourne Christopher Library (1994); Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2016-12-03
[Miscellaneous] Shelf of 17 Vintage Volumes on Hypnotism. Including Mind Power: The Secret of Mental Magic (1913); Impressions From the Unseen (1925); Mysteries of Hypnosis Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2016-12-03
Chung Ling Soo (William Robinson). Chung Ling Soo. “Spellbound they gathered, far and near to scan, the weird powers of this wondrous man”. London: J. Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2014-04-26
[Miscellaneous] Group of 25 vintage magic books. Including Easy Conjuring by Baffel (1922; two copies), Conjuring Apparatus Up-To-Date And How to Make It (1912), Original Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2014-04-26
Muir, John (1838-1914), Three titles, Travels in Alaska , Boston and New York, 1915, one of 450 large paper copies, with slip case, (spine worn Read more…
Auctioneer:
Skinner
Date:
2003-11-02
