McComb, Billy. McComb’s Magic: 25 Years Wiser. Bideford: Supreme, (1972). Full brown leather, gilt stamped morocco labels on a banded spine, covers stamped with a thin orange border. Top edge gilt, marbled endsheets. Publisher’s jacket incorporated into binding. Illustrated. 4to. Upper corner bumped, else very good.
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2015-05-31
McComb, Billy. Billy McComb’s guest book. Kept by McComb in his London home on Tufnell Park Rd. from 1969 – 1985, this register reads like Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2013-04-06
McComb, Billy. Billy McComb’s vanishing birdcages and associated ephemera. Including three semi-rigid models of this classic trick, one with very thick bars, one with cord Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2013-04-06
[McComb, Billy] New Generation Card Fountain. Boston: Victor and Marcelo Contento, 1993. Battery-operated apparatus shoots cards four feet into the air from a top hat. Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2016-08-27
McComb, Billy. Two Billy McComb Broadsides. Ireland, 1940s. Two letterpress broadsides from early in McComb’s career. In the first, he appears as part of a Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2016-06-25
[McComb, Billy] Card Box. London: Vampire, ca. 1960s. Nickeled card box (hallmarked) inscribed to Billy McComb with sincere thanks/ Philip Duke of Edinburgh. The men Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2016-08-27
Keating, Fred. Fred Keating’s Vanishing Bird Cage. New York, Broadway Magic, ca. 1935. Brass and wire flexible cage manufactured by Martin Sunshine during his partnership Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2012-05-13
Vernon, Dai (David Frederick Wingfield Verner). Silhouette of Billy McComb by Dai Vernon. Los Angeles [?], ca. 1970. Profile silhouette of the great Irish comedian/magician Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2013-02-02
[Miscellaneous – Tricks & Effects] Group of nineteen books on conjuring. Including Magicomedy (1981) by Caveney; Amedeo’s Continental Magic (1974) by Garcia and Schindler; A Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2015-04-04
[Magic Books] Group of over 140 books and manuals about magic tricks. Including Abbott's Magic for Magicians by Percy Abbott (1934), Advanced Magic by Ovette Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2010-10-23
[Tarbell Course] Correspondence regarding the Tarbell Course in Magic books. Archive of dozens of letters, most of them addressed to Louis Tannen, regarding contributions to Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2012-05-13
