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The Collection of Edwin A Dawes, Part I

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“Big Chief Red Snake.” Secrets of Magic Practised by The Mo...

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?Big Chief Red Snake.? Secrets of Magic Practised by The Mohawk Indian Medicine Men. Oldham: Showland?s Promptest Printer, c/o ?World?s Fair? Office, ca. 1910. Eight page chapbook, uncut, describing in terse terms the secrets behind various conjuring tricks and stage illusions, including the Inexhaustible Bottle, Linking Rings, and fire eating. Browning at folds and edges. The only example we have been able to trace.