Thurston, Howard. My Life of Magic. Philadelphia:

LOT OF 16 COLLECTIBLE BOOKS FROM THE ESTATE OF PHOTO GALLERY OWNER HOWARD DAITZ. INCLUDES MY LIFE OF MAGIC BY HOWARD THURSTON, THE SURREALIST MAGAZINE MINOTAURE ISSUE 12/13, MIRA CALLIGRAPHAIRE MONUME

By Howard Thurston. 1929. Condition: Fair – interior sound but boards worn.

By Robert E. Olson. 1993. Volume 1 & 2 Condition: Very Good

This is a reprint of Thurston's My Life of Magic with additional material from Jane Thurston, as well as, Robert Olson and Phil Temple. Published by Phil Temple in 1989. Wonderful full color dust jack

Downs, T. Nelson. Autograph Letter Signed to Howard Thurston Regarding "The Art of Magic." Marshalltown, Iowa, March 27, 1932. On a plain sheet of paper (11 x 8 ½"), in black fountain pen, regarding

Thurston, Howard. Confidential Copy of Thurston’s Course in Magic. New York, 1926. Original pictorial wrappers inscribed to the original owner, Gustave Brenner. Forty-seven pages, 4to, on rectos onl

Thurston, Howard. World's Master Magician – New Illusions for Vaudeville This Season. Philadelphia: Press of Haag & Parris, 1902; inscribed and signed 1935. Poster illustrated with a series of halft

Edward Victor MAGIC OF HANDS and MORE MAGIC OF HANDS 1942 249PP.ILLUSTRATED, + Howard Thurston 400TRICKS YOU CAN DO 386PP, 1940, ILLUSTRATED. Fred Baumann ODYSSEY OF CLASSIC COIN SLEIGHTS Illustrated,

Original Window Card Poster 14” x 22”. Otis Printing. Condition: slight fading, wear to one corner, tape stain upper left corner, overall B-

Photograph is taken in India and Thurston is on camel back alongside wagons loaded for his magic show. Photograph is mounted to hardboard for stabilization measures approx. 16 x 20.5". Subject matter

Herrmann, Adelaide. Portrait of Adelaide Herrmann as Cagliostro, a Gift to Howard Thurston. N.p., ca. 1908; inscribed 1935. Gelatin silver print full-length portrait of the Queen of Magic in wizard's

The Saturday Evening Post with two articles by Howard Thurston one titled Trickery in High Places and one titled The Magic Business from the March 27, 1926, publication. The pages with the articles by

Cincinnati: The Strobridge Litho. Co., 1909. Full color lithograph portrays Kellar's successor performing a rapid transposition illusion with the assistance of imps and gnomes. Assistants appear and d

Cleveland: The Otis Litho. Co., ca. 1928. Thurston holds a skull in his outstretched hands. Smoke curls from its open eye sockets, and from it comes a spectral woman, demons, ringing bells, and ghostl

THURSTON, Howard (1869 – 1936). Thurston’s Greatest Mystery. The Vanishing Whippet. [Cleveland: Otis Litho], ca. 1924. Striking one-sheet poster depicts a Willys-Overland Whippet automobil

Thurston, Howard. Do the Spirits Come Back? Thurston the Great Magician. Cleveland, Otis Lithograph Company, ca. 1926. One-sheet (27 x 48”) color lithograph poster. Depicts Thurston holding a skull

Thurston, Howard. Thurstons Greatest Mystery. The Vanishing Whippet. [Cleveland: Otis Litho], ca. 1924. Depicting an automobile filled with comely ladies vanishing in wisps of smoke above the head of

Thurston, Howard. Pair of Illusion Demonstration Photographs. San Francisco: George Knight, ca. 1900s. Early sepia photos on cabinet-format mounts embossed with the studio name, depicting Thurston wit

Thurston, Howard. Iasia. Vanished in the Theatre’s Dome! Cleveland, Otis Lithograph Company, ca. 1926. One-sheet (27 x 48”) color lithographed poster. Depicts Thurston’s Iasia illusion in operat

Thurston, Howard. Thurston the Great Magician. Cleveland: Otis Litho., ca. 1926. Color lithograph panel poster bearing the portrait of a menacing devil figure whose hands extend below, grasping at imp

Thurston, Howard. Inscribed and Signed Photograph. New York: Strand, 1926. Silver print bust portrait of the illustrious magician, inscribed and signed to the original owner in the lower center margin

Thurston, Howard. Thurston Pocket Mirror. Circa 1910. Celluloid-backed oval souvenir pocket mirror (2 ¾ x ¾" at widest points) bearing a bust portrait of Thurston with imps whispering in his ears. M

Thurston, Howard. Thurston Master Magician And His Pets. Cleveland: Otis Litho, ca. 1926. Color lithograph depicts many of the animals that appeared in the Thurston show, including a lion, horse, duck

Thurston, Howard. The Demon. The Greatest Mystery Drama of All. New York, 1929. Handbill for Thurston’s short-lived stage theatrical “The Demon,” at New Rochelle Theater (New York), the play’s