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Sat, Mar 31, 2018 03:30AM EDT
Lot 528

Group of Four Scrapbooks Devoted to Magicians Clippings and Performance Ephemera.

Estimate: $600 - $900

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Group of Four Scrapbooks Devoted to Magicians Clippings and Performance Ephemera. Principally English, 1920s?50s. Approximately 60 pages per volume, folios, with hundreds of individual pieces, comprised mostly of newspaper clippings, but also with programs, postcards, handbills, and paper souvenirs, subjects including Horace Goldin, Arnold De Biere, Giovanni ?The Pickpocket,? Channing Pollock, Maurice Fogel, Chris Charlton, Prince Yuga ?Oriental Mystic,? Clive Maskelyne, Carmo, Jasper Maskelyne, Cortini, Chefalo, Cardini, Carl Hertz, Maurice Raymond, Clinton Burgess, Deveen, Siems, Houdini, Oswald Williams, Charles Morritt, Chung Ling Soo, Tommy Cooper, Dante, Lucille Barnett, Edward Victor, Carlton, Ali Bey, Keith Clark, and others. Manuscript indexes by the compiler at rear.