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Featuring the collection of magic bibliographer Stephen Forrester, this premier sale will feature highlights from his library of rare, old, and unusual conjuring books from the seventeenth century to the present day. Purchase Catalog
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Lot 300

HILLIARD, John Northern (1872-1935). Two Copies of Greater ...

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HILLIARD, John Northern (1872-1935). Two Copies of Greater Magic, including: Greater Magic a Practical Treatise on Modern Magic… Minneapolis: Carl Waring Jones, [1938]. Thick 8vo. Profusely illustrated by Harlan Tarbell. [1005] pp. Publisher’s full red cloth, spine stamped in gilt, publisher’s unclipped dust jacket. Cloth spine toned with gilt tarnished, endleaves toned and offset, ownership sticker on fp.; jacket spine toned and edgeworn, some wear, soiling, marginal chipping, tears to panels. Very good. STATED FIRST EDITION OF THE BOOK, LATER ISSUE (“REVISED EDITION”) DUST JACKET. [And:] Greater Magic… [Silver Spring, MD:] Richard Kaufman and Alan Greenberg, [1994]. Thick 8vo. Illustrated. 1293, [38] pp. Publisher’s full red cloth, publisher’s dust jacket. Fine. Includes the 400+ pp. chapter, “More Greater Magic.” Prospectus for the facsimile edition laid-in.

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