Literature of Legerdemain
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Lot 2
ANDERSON, John Henry (1814 – 74). The Fashionable Science o...
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ANDERSON, John Henry (1814 – 74). The Fashionable Science of Parlor Magic. [N.p.]: Published by the “Great Wizard of the North” at his “Temple of Magic,” (1843). Plain brown contemporary wrappers in marbled wraps with cloth spine. Frontispiece on pink paper. Engraved dedication page in orange. 12mo. Wood-engraved illustrations. p. [1 – 5], 6 – 61, [72]. The rare FIRST EDITION of this title which was published in a supposed 250 editions over roughly the next twenty years. Toole Stott 17.
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