[Baker, Al] Eugene Bulson's Al Baker Notebooks. Compiled in the 1920s and early 1930s from correspondence and personal meetings between Al Baker and Bulson, and comprising over one hundred entries, including many of Baker's best-known effects, among them The Pack that Cuts Itself, Vanishing Lead Pencil, The Bakerscope, Al Baker's Master Addition Slate, tricks with a hook coin, the Telephone Book Test, Al'N'Nate, Albaka, Baker's rope routine and cups and balls routine, the Erectile Dollar Bill, and dozens more. Over 200 pages, neatly typed, with many descriptions accompanied by pen-and-ink illustrations. Housed in two small leather-covered ring binders. Bulson, a surgeon from the Midwest, was a well-posted amateur magician with a sizeable library of conjuring books and an important collection of magic props. He was also one of Al Baker's most frequent correspondents and best customers. The secrets he compiled in these notebooks were gathered together before many of Baker's books were published and his line of tricks were released to the public.