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Lot of Six Books on Magic History and Biography.

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Lot of Six Books on Magic History and Biography. Including Houdini’s Unmasking (1989) by Hugard; Illustrated Magic (1946) by Fischer; Catalogue of the J.B. Findlay Collection Pts. I—III (Sotheby’s, 1979—80); Complete Life of Howard Franklin Thurston (1993) by Olson; and David P. Abbott’s House of Mysteries (1977).

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Lot of Six Books on Magic History and Biography.

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