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Blackstone, Harry (Henry Boughton). Inscribed and Signed Guest Book with Caricature Self-Portrait. Guest-book belonging to a Chicago couple filled with the sentiments of dozens of friends entered between 1934 – 1948. Inscribed and Signed by Blackstone on the verso of a full page: “My Prayer for today – Oh Lord give the people of this book common sense beginning with me./ Success is Work [,] Hard Work Plus Confidence [,] Plenty of ‘it.’ Harry Blackstone/full of Bourbon [?]/May 16 – 1948 at 10 pm.”


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Date:
2015-02-07

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Blackstone, Harry. Blackstone’s Modern Card Tricks and Secrets of Magic. New York: Garden City Publishing, 1941. Red cloth, spine stamped in black. Portrait frontispiece. Illustrated. Read more…


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Blackstone, Harry. Blackstones Modern Card Tricks. New York, 1958. Publishers cloth. Inscribed and signed, with a caricature self-portrait, by the author on the flyleaf. Illustrated. Read more…


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Sammy Davis Jr. personal guest book, black leather with gold stamping which reads: Guests Welcome to Our Home Altovise - Sammy Over sixty pages of Read more…


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Blackstone, Harry. Blackstone's Own Magic Trick Bubble Gum. Havertown, Penn.: Philadelphia Chewing Gum Corp, 1962. Complete set in box (8 x 4 x 1 ½") Read more…


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