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Lot 24

CARTER, Charles (1870 – 1936). Carter the Great. The Lion's...

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CARTER, Charles (1870 ? 1936). Carter the Great. The Lion's Bride. Chicago: Illinois Litho, ca. 1918. Three-color window card advertising arguably Carter's most spectacular illusion presented as a magical play, involving Carter as the hero saving a damsel in distress from a ferocious lion. 22 x 14". With snipes at top and bottom from use on Carter's South African tour (Johannesburg hotel listing faintly visible); short tears at edges reinforced at rear. SCARCE.