W. H. J. Shaw Magic Catalog. Chicago, ca. 1894. Pink pictorial wraps, bound in modern red board with gilt stamped spine. Ex-libris Dr. John Henry Grossman. Fading to pink interior papers; very good. “Novelties in conjuring tricks and magical apparatus, illusions, antispritualistic effects, etc.”
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2017-06-10
[Houdini, Harry (Ehrich Weiss)] W.H.J. Shaw. Magic Up To Date, or Shaw's Magical Instructor [Houdini's Copy]. Chicago, [1896]. Publisher's gilt-stamped cloth. Front pastedown bearing an Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2016-10-29
W. H. J. Shaw Catalog. Chicago, 1893 / 1894. Original purple wraps, bound in modern red board with gilt stamped spine. Ex-libris Dr. John Henry Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2017-06-10
Walking Ventriloquist Figure. Chicago: W.H.J. Shaw, ca. 1900. Large and handsome walking version of the traditional ventriloquist figure which, by a special control operated by Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2016-08-27
Cremer, W.H. Three Victorian Magic Books. Includes Hanky Panky (1872), Magician's Own Book (1871), and The Secret Out (ca. 1871). All published by John Camden Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2016-12-03
Anderson, J.H. Professor Anderson Magic and Mystery. London, ca. 1856. Two-color letterpress broadside in green and black, bearing four scenes from his show including the Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2015-10-31
Burlingame, H.J. History of Magic and Magicians. Chicago, 1895. Finely bound in modern crushed leather, raised spine, gilt title compartment. Top edge gilt, marbled endsheets. Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2016-02-06
Burlingame, H.J. Tricks in Magic, Vol. 1-3. Chicago: Clyde Publishing, 1895-98. Colored paper wraps. Volume 3 wrapper detached, otherwise good. In a drop spine box. Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2014-02-08
Cremer, W.H. Lot of Three Victorian Magic Books. Including Hanky Panky (London: John Camden Hotten, [1872]), green pictorial cloth stamped in black and gilt, colored Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2016-04-09
Cremer, W.H. Magic No Mystery. Edinburgh: John Grant, ca. 1890. Red pictorial publisher's cloth, stamped in black and gold. Illustrated. 8vo. Spine toned, some soiling Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2016-12-03
Cremer, W.H. Magic No Mystery. Edinburgh: John Grant, ca. 1890. Red pictorial cloth stamped in two colors. Illustrated. 8vo. Spine sunned, former owner’s embossed stamp, Read more…
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2014-04-26
