CONJURING AND MAGIC
Sachs (Edwin) Sleight of Hand: A Practical Manual of Legerdemain for Amateurs and Others [1885], London, L. Upcott Gill, 8vo, Second enlarged Edition: half title, titlepage, Contents, Preface plus pp. 408, diagrams and illustrations, with pp. 32 illustrated publisher's 'Catalogue of New and Practical Books' to rear. Original pictorial green cloth gilt, bumped and rubbed extremities, green patterned (scuffed) endpapers, tender hinges reinforced with old tape, old ownership inscription to f.f.e.p. [&] Cremer (W.H.) The Secret Out One Thousand Tricks in Drawing-Room or White Magic, 1907, London, Chatto & Windus, 8vo, half title, frontis., iv and pp. 307, pp. 4 adverts; original very rubbed and stained pictorial red cloth, edges bumped, rather foxed prelims, large spot to upper margin pp. 297 to end. [&] The Boy's Book of Conjuring, [c.1950], London, Ward, Lock & Co., 8vo, pp. 222, frontis., b&w plates, original pictorial brown cloth, rubbed and bumped, 'ring' marks to rear cover, some mostly marginal foxing, bookplate to front pastedown. [&] Stickland (W.G.) and Wilson (Eric) Wm. G. Stickland and Eric P. Wilson Invite You to "Join the Party", 1947, Burnley, Lancs., by the Authors, thin 8vo, pp. 72, two photographic portraits, illustrations and diagrams, original gilt-lettered black boards, marbled e.p.s., [with] eight other titles, including Scarne on Card Tricks, 1953 First English Editon, d.j.; Goldston Tricks and Illusions, 1955 reprint; Ladybird Books Series 633 Tricks and Magic; and three publications by the Supreme Magic Company, Bideford, Devon (hard cloth 8vos, d.j.s).
[Offered with:] Sotheby's catalogues of Parts I and II of the J.B. Findlay Collection on Conjuring and the Allied Arts, 1979, two large 8vo pamphlets, blue printed wraps, plates, Price Lists inserted (13).