Sold for:
$250
$250
Thurston, Howard. My Life of Magic. Philadelphia, 1929. Green cloth stamped in gold. Portrait frontispiece, illustrated with plates. 8vo. One plate loose, and one page ragged, cloth generally worn, but overall good condition. Signed and inscribed by Thurston to his one-time assistant and illusion designer Cyril Yettmah. This fictionalized "autobiography" was ghost-written for Thurston by J.N. Hilliard and Walter B. Gibson. Cyril Yettmah, to whom this copy is inscribed, invented and built several illusions for Thurston in the late 1920s. He is generally credited as the inventor of the Pigeon Catching trick.
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2011-01-29
