Houdini's Paper Magic: The Whole Art of Performing With Paper, Including Paper Tearing, Paper Folding, and Paper Puzzles
by Houdini, Harry
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No Dust Jacket
- Seller
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Plainfield, Vermont, United States
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About This Item
New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc, 1929. 3rd Printing. Contains illustrations. Wear at extremities, darkening on spine. Contains bookplate and signature in green ink from previous owner and plate "From the George Daily Collection of ConjuringBooks". Copy in generally Good condition. Solidly bound in green cloth. . 3rd Printing. Hard Cover. Good/No Dust Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.
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- Bookseller
- The Country Bookshop
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 30145
- Title
- Houdini's Paper Magic: The Whole Art of Performing With Paper, Including Paper Tearing, Paper Folding, and Paper Puzzles
- Author
- Houdini, Harry
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Dust Jacket
- Edition
- 3rd Printing
- Publisher
- E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1929
- Size
- 12mo - over 6¾" - 7&
- Keywords
- Magic, Magicians, Origami
- Bookseller catalogs
- Magic;
Terms of Sale
The Country Bookshop
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
The Country Bookshop
Biblio member since 2011
Plainfield, Vermont
About The Country Bookshop
60,000 books, old postcards, and assorted paper ephemera in an old house located in the rural town of Plainfield, VT. We have been in business since 1974. We're open 7 days a week from 10 until 5.
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- 12mo
- A duodecimo is a book approximately 7 by 4.5 inches in size, or similar in size to a contemporary mass market paperback. Also...
- Jacket
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- Cloth
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- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- E.P.
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