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Chicago, IL, United States
Auction Details
Spring Magic Auction
Potter & Potter Auctions
Our spring auction features magic memorabilia, books, posters, and apparatus for beginning and advanced collectors alike. Hightlights include a brooch presented to Bess Houdini by Russian royalty, Carl Waring Jones correspondence, and three pages of rhyming verse hand written by Harry Houdini.
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![Robert-Houdin, Jean Eugène. Secrets of Stage Conjuring.: Robert-Houdin, Jean Eugène (trans. Professor Hoffmann [Angelo J. Lewis]). Secrets of Stage Conjuring. London: George Routledge, 1881. Publisher's pictorial cloth. Frontispiece. Illustrated. 8vo.](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/928/101079/51603247_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1489080444)
![Racherbaumer, Jon and Richard Kaufman. Don England's: Racherbaumer, Jon and Richard Kaufman. Don England's Gaffed to the Hilt! [New York]: Kaufman and Greenberg, 1985. First edition, number 70 of 110 copies. Publisher's cloth binder stamped in silver.](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/928/101079/51603248_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1489080444)


![Group of Thirteen Vintage and Antiquarian Magic Books: [Spanish] Group of Thirteen Vintage and Antiquarian Magic Books by Robert-Houdin and Others. Including Los Secretos de la Prestidigitacion y de la Magia (Barcelona, ca. 1885) by Robert-Houdin; Magic](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/928/101079/51603251_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1489080444)










![[Classics] Four Volumes on Conjuring.: [Classics] Four Volumes on Conjuring. Including Al Baker's Magical Ways and Means (Minneapolis, 1946; Christmas gift inscription and signature of the publisher, Carl Waring Jones, to Mrs. Al Flosso);](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/928/101079/51603262_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1489080444)
![[Ventriloquism and Puppetry] Group of Nine Antiquarian: [Ventriloquism and Puppetry] Group of Nine Antiquarian and Modern Volumes. Including The Art of Ventriloquism (London, 1890s; spine heavily chipped) by Maccabe; Hercat's Ventriloquist (London, 1916);](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/928/101079/51603263_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1489080444)
![[Miscellaneous] Shelf of Over a Dozen Modern Books on: [Miscellaneous] Shelf of Over a Dozen Modern Books on Magic. Including Performance of Close-up Magic (1987) by Berger; Coin Magic (1981) by Kaufman; Complete Works of Derek Dingle (1982); Smoke and](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/928/101079/51603264_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1489080444)
![Collection of Over 50 Magician's Lecture Notes and: [Miscellaneous – Lecture Notes] Collection of Over 50 Magician's Lecture Notes and Booklets. American, bulk 1960s – 90s. Notes on card, coin, and close-up magic, authors and magicians represented](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/928/101079/51603265_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1489080444)
![[Miscellaneous – Parlor Magic] Group of Seven Vintage: 209. [Miscellaneous – Parlor Magic] Group of Seven Vintage and Antiquarian Volumes. Including The Secret Out (London, 1875; Toole Stott 1014; ex-libris J.B. Findlay; cloth heavily worn but binding](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/928/101079/51603266_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1489080444)
![[Miscellaneous – Conjuring] Shelf of More than 30: [Miscellaneous – Conjuring] Shelf of More than 30 Vintage Books and Booklets on Magic. Including Something New in Magic (1929) by Williams; Book of Card Tricks (ca. 1890) by Kunard; Book of Modern](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/928/101079/51603267_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1489080444)
![[Miscellaneous – Magic History and Collecting]: [Miscellaneous – Magic History and Collecting] Collection of Books and Periodicals. Including The Hoffmann Collector (sixteen of seventeen issues [lacking N7]); Alfredson/Daily 2735) by Sawyer;](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/928/101079/51603268_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1489080444)
![[Miscellaneous – Magic History and Biography] Lot of: [Miscellaneous – Magic History and Biography] Lot of Eleven Volumes. Including The P&L Book (San Leandro, 1992) by Walker and Seaver; Don Lawton's Autograph Book (2008; one of 500 copies, inscribed](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/928/101079/51603269_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1489080444)
![[Miscellaneous – Magic] Collection of 25 Books on Card,: [Miscellaneous – Magic] Collection of 25 Books on Card, Close-Up, Coin, and Mental Magic. 1970s – 2000s. Including Expert Coin Magic (1985) by Roth; A Choice of Miracles (1980), A Continuation of](https://p1.liveauctioneers.com/928/101079/51603270_1_x.jpg?height=310&quality=70&version=1489080444)
