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Lot 282

Gibecière. Volume 1, No. 1 (Winter 2005) – volume 17, no. 1...

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Gibecière. Volume 1, No. 1 (Winter 2005) – volume 17, no. 1. (Winter 2022). Semi-annual journal on magic history published by the Conjuring Arts Research Center. Thirty-four issues. Includes illustrated 4to facsimile of Horatio Galasso’s Devotione del Signore that shipped with volume 11, no. 2. Publisher’s wrappers. Slight wear to some covers, but overall, near fine (Summer 2014 with scuff on spine). One volume sealed in publisher’s brown cardboard mailer, presumed to be volume 14, no. 1 (Winter 2019). Laid-in are several newsletters from the Conjuring Arts Research Center, as well as several letters from Conjuring Arts Research Center to the subscriber, and two homemade cd’s of Kalush’s radio interview (March 2007) on Houdini’s death and exhumation for suspected poisoning.

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