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[Miscellaneous – Children’s Literature & Storybooks] More than twenty vintage magic books “for boys” and related works. Including six ‘Big Little’ books, four being Houdini’s Book of Magic (1927), several variants, and two Mandrake the Magician (1939-41) titles; a series of four Gilbert magic books (1920); five Joe Strong storybooks (1916), two with jackets; two pulp mysteries including The Mystery of the Vanishing Magician (1956) and The Spider (1929), with jackets; Zig-Zag, the Boy Conjurer (1903); and others. Sizes and bindings vary. Condition generally good.


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Date:
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