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Four antiquarian volumes on parlor magic and conjuring.

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1860 Parlor Magician by Frikell MAGIC Trick SECRETS: 1860 Parlor Magician by Frikell MAGIC Trick SECRETS Illustrated Conjuring Wilijalba Frikell was a 19th-century German magician who was known for vaudeville performances and intricate stage apparatuses

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Four antiquarian volumes on parlor magic and conjuring.

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[Miscellaneous – Antiquarian] Four antiquarian volumes on parlor magic and conjuring. Including The Parlor Magician (New York: Dick & Fitzgerald, 1863), orange pictorial boards over embossed green cloth spine; Up To Date Conjuring (London: n.p., n.d. (ca. 1875), repaired brown pictorial wrappers; and two editions of Everybody’s Guide to Conjuring (London: Saxon & Co., ca. 1875), both in blue cloth, by Frank Desmond. Illustrated. 8vo or smaller. Fair to good.