$400
[Classics] Ten Classic Conjuring Books. Including The Art of Magic by Downs (two copies; 1921 and 1980), Modern Magic, More Magic and Later Magic by Hoffmann (v.d.), Greater Magic by Hilliard (1945), Our Magic by Maskelyne and Devant (1946) The Tarbell Course in Magic by Harlan Tarbell (eight volumes, v.d.), Magicians Tricks and How They Are Done by Hatton and Plate (1910), The Modern Conjurer by C. Lang Neil (1947), and The Annotated Erdnase by Ortiz (1991). Most clothbound and 8vo; condition varies, but generally good. In the 1980 Dover edition of The Art of Magic, Charles Reynolds authored an erudite introduction to the book. In it, Reynolds described what were, and still are, considered the ten essential magic texts, all of which should be on a serious magician’s shelf. Here, then, are those ten works, drawn from the library of the man who wrote that introduction, and including one of his own copies of the very book for which he authored that essay.
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2012-10-27
