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[MAGIC – HISTORY AND COLLECTING]. Lot of more than 20 Books on Magic History and Collecting. Includes: ALFREDSON, James B., and George L. Daily, Jr. A Bibliography of Conjuring Periodicals in English: 1791 - 1983. York, PA: Magicana for Collectors, 1986. CHRISTOPHER, Milbourne. Houdini: The Untold Story. Mattituck, NY: Aeonian Press, 1969. From an un-numbered LIMITED EDITION of 300 copies. DAWES, Edwin A. Isaac Fawkes: Fame and Fable. England: E. A. Dawes, 1979. LIMITED EDITION, number 57 of 200 copies. SIGNED by the author. FINDLAY, James B. Second Collectors Annual. England: Central Printing Co., 1950. HALL, Trevor H. A Bibliography of Books on Conjuring in English from 1580 to 1850. Lepton, England: Palmyra Press, 1957. LIMITED EDITION, number 87 of 250 copies. SIGNED by the author. SAWYER, Thomas A. Professor Hoffman and His Conjuring Serials of 1872 - 1888. Tustin, CA: Thomas A. Sawyer, 2016. STANDAGE, Tom. The Turk. New York: Walker and Co., 2002. WILEY, Barry H. The Georgia Wonder. Seattle, WA: Hermetic Press, [2004]. Also, the program from the first Los Angeles Conference on Magic History (1989). 4tos. and 8vos. Illustrated. Various bindings, all publisher’s originals. Condition commensurate with age, most good or better.
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