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Sleight of Hand - The Jeff Busby Collection

Sat, Aug 19, 2017 11:00AM EDT - Sun, Aug 20, 2017 11:00AM EDT
Lot 104

Archive of Gene Maze-Jeff Busby Letters and Manuscripts.

Estimate: $400 - $600

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Maze, Gene. Archive of Gene Maze-Jeff Busby Letters and Manuscripts. Spanning over 20 years, from 1974 - 96, Maze describes a host of card tricks, oftentimes with crude explanatory diagrams, in the scores of letters making up the archive. Effects describe include Transposition Supreme, Light-House Aces, Magnetic Attraction and over one dozen more. The manuscripts both typewritten, carbons, and copies, as sent to Busby by Maze. The letters all TLSs running between one and five pages each, and describing not only tricks (many of which rely on the Bottom Deal for which Maze was known), but information about the New York scene and contemporary magicians, among these Fulves, Marlo, Yedid, Kaufman, Sadowitz, Duffie, and dozens more. Many carbons of Busby's responses included. Over 150 pages, neatly organized. Accompanied by a copy of The Gene Maze Card Book.

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