$400
[Monographs] Group of 56 monographs on various subjects in the history of magic and conjuring. Including Recollections of Robert-Houdin (1898) by William Manning; Behind the Magician’s Curtain (1928) John Mulholland; The Psychology of Conjuring (1936) by Robert Bernhard, Jr.; Those Entertaining Years (1949) by H.C. Mole; The Young Houdini in Appleton (1985) by Leland Ester; The Gardner – Smith Correspondence (1999) by Richard Hatch; The Early History of the Paddle Trick in Print (1993) by Bill Palmer; Conjurors and Cornfields: Magic on the Indianapolis Stage (1999) by Thomas Ewing; Monarch of Magic: Story of Servais Leroy (1984) by William Rauscher, plus several other works by the same author; Chung Ling Soo’s Mechanists (1998) by Brian McCullagh and Ernest Aldred; From Witchcraft to Card Tricks (1991) by Stephen Minch; and many others. Sizes and bindings vary. Condition generally very good. Not pictured.
Auctioneer:
Potter & Potter
Date:
2014-11-01
