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[Fine Reprints] Group of twelve classic works including letterpress, deluxe, and annotated editions. With Walter Graham’s special facsimile reprint of the sixth edn. (1763) of Hocus Pocus (Modern Litho, 1983; Signed and Numbered by Graham); The Conjuror’s Repository (Modern Litho, 1987; 133 of 300 Copies); Hocus Pocus Junior (Steve Burton, 1997), bound in black gold-stamped leather; Clever and Pleasant Inventions (Hermetic Press, 1998) by Prevost; Breslaw’s Last Legacy (Stevens, 1997); How Gamblers Win (Magicana, 2008); Annals of Conjuring (Magico, 1983) by Clarke; The Expositor (Stevens, 1996) by Pinchbeck; Leaves from Conjurers’ Scrap Books (Singing Tree, 1971) by Burlingame; The Discoverie of Witchcraft (Kaufman and Greenberg, 1995) by Scot; and two Abracadabra Press letterpress reprints: Hoffmann’s The Haunted Hat and Wells’ The Magic Shop, both Signed and Numbered by the Printer, Richard Buffum. Sizes and bindings vary. Condition generally near fine.


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2015-02-07

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