Houdiniana & The Davenport Magic Collection
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![Collins, Stanley. Rough Draft of сGems of Personal Prestidigitation.о [London], ca. 1957 _ 63. Cloth](https://s1.img.bidsquare.com/item/xl/1285/1285176.jpeg?t=1EN3P2)
Lot 417
Collins, Stanley. Rough Draft of сGems of Personal Prestidigitation.о [London], ca. 1957 _ 63. Cloth
Estimate: $1,800 - $2,500
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Collins, Stanley. Rough Draft of сGems of Personal Prestidigitation.о [London], ca. 1957 _ 63. Cloth spring-back portfolio binder, title label laid on front, labeled сRough Draft.о Unpaginated typescript. 137 pages, 4to, rectos only, of scrap calendars, circular letters and other documents. Bearing hundreds of annotations by Collins in pen and pencil. Tipped-in half-sheet of literary quotations in CollinsНs hand, likely as epigraphs; and a synopsis of the work and word count table in manuscript by Bayard Grimshaw. Ex-libris Edwin Dawes. CollinsНs final book-length work on magic, which he believed would be his strongest, remained unpublished for various reasons until 2002, with its inclusion in DawesН biography of him.
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