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Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: FAIR ONLY due to two signatures (gatherings) in center of book being detached. Attractive original brown decorated cloth with gilt titles. Davenport magic shop advertising labels affixed to front and rear pastedowns. Davenport address stamps on title page and verso of front flyleaf and elsewhere. Date 1881 printed on title page. No ownership markings. This work was the companion to SECRETS OF STAGE CONJURING AND MAGIC.
Seller: Aladdin Books, Fullerton, CA, U.S.A.
[HOUDINI] HOUDIN, Robert.. The Secrets of Stage Conjuring.. George Routledge and Sons, London, 1881.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Description: Translated and Edited, with notes by Professor Horrmann. 252 [4, ads] pp. With Illustrations. 8vo, publisher's decorated cloth. Old ink ownership annotation on half-title; shaken; cloth worn and frayed at extremities.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Good, but has a cello-tape repair to the gutter between flyleaf and half-title page. Address plate of magician and ventriloquist George McAthy on verso of flyleaf. Some foxing to preliminary pages and light dirt smudge on fore edge of text block. Grey pictorial cloth show some wear. Date 1881 printed on title page. This work was the companion to SECRETS OF STAGE CONJURING AND MAGIC.
Seller: Aladdin Books, Fullerton, CA, U.S.A.
Houdin, Robert. The Secrets of Stage Conjuring. George Routledge Snd Sons, New York, 1881.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Translated and Edited with notes by Professor Louis Hoffman, author of "Modern Magic." Illustrations throughout, attractive cover design, and title written in gold gilt. Wear at extremities, fading on back cover, occasional foxing. Crack in inner spine near middle of book. Small amount of pages unattached to spine but attached to selves. Copy in overall Good Minus condition. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall
Seller: The Country Bookshop [Member VABA], Plainfield, VT, U.S.A.