Search Results: Magic & Magicians from Motte & Bailey, Booksellers

Fort Wayne, IN: Mind Mirage, 1985. First edition. Hardcover with Gilt outlined question mark on cover in full cloth. Very Good. Quarto (oversized). Slight wear to edges and corners of boards. Top foredge corners bumped, less so at lower corners. 145 p. w/ firearms page, errata page, a few illustrations and reprints of newspaper articles. An uncommon work by two respected effect creators of the Midwest.

the author, 1996. First edition. Plastic strip bound with paper covers. . Very Good. Oversized. Signed by the author to Marcello Truzzi, noted sociologist, amateaur magician, and researcher of alternative science. Truzzi is also acknowledged in the introduction as helping with this work. Slight scuffing to covers back top corner creased. 120+ pages printed on one side only, with many illustrations of Dunninger promotional material. An uncommon self published work, rising from a lecture on Dunninger's success and the role that promotion and promotional material played that Buckner did for the Psychic Entertainers Association (Buckner notes that he has excluded promotional material regarding Dunninger's medium exposes and the Himber controversy). Buckner became interested in Dunniger though his friendship with David Lustig, and a number of entries in the book discuss Lustig as well and touched on his relationship with Dunninger. Much of the material illustrated in the book came from Lustig.

New York, NY: Swann Galleries, 2004. First edition. Paperback in illustrated covers. . Very Good. Small thin octavo ( smaller than standard). Slight wear to edges and corners of covers. Illustrations in b&w about ever 2nd or 3rd page, with prices realized sheet laid in. An auction catalog for the better books from the collection of Tom Blue, a magician, collector, and now bookseller. A useful reference.

Weedsport, NY: George W. Hippisley, 1970. First edition. stapled sheets. Very good. 39 p. printed on both sides. Stapled at upper left corner. Slight wear to edges and corners. Folded over for mailing. A listing of some 1304 books, posters, apparatus, ephemera, and more, most from Harry Blackstone show, which Hippisley had been storing for Blackstone. Includes a listing in the auction section for the famous painting of Blackstone by Salla. Robert Lund and Daniel Waldron bought most the material en bloc in 1970, and Lund displayed most of his share at his American Museum of Magic in Marshall Michigan. Waldron's part of the Blackstone collection was used by him for his biography, and was sold at auction in 2017. An uncommon and important magic catalog, listing interesting items never to be reassembled, from an unusual source.

Portland, ME, 1989. Pamphlet. Very good. "... in which this unique move is explained and various utilizations are suggested. " Revised and expanded 2nd edition, 200 copies made Slight wear to edges and corners of covers. Top corner and first few pages have crease at corner. 17 p. Includes various pieces of paper clipped to back . SIGNED by Stride to Marcello Truzzi, noted sociologist who was very interested in stage magic and magicians.