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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 418

[MAGIC – PERIODICALS] Four Runs of Magic Magazines. Three C...

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[MAGIC – PERIODICALS] Four Runs of Magic Magazines. Three Complete Files, including: [SHELLEY, Gene and STRONG, Dave, editors]. The Best and Worst of Chaos and Everything in Between. Abraxas Publications, 2009. Micky Hades’ reprint of the infamous underground magic magazine, Chaos, with color reprints of all 36 issues, 1 supplemental issue, and 37 supplement pouches. Signed by Hades on the general title. Unnumbered. Housed in publisher’s 3-ring binder. Fine. [And:] [WRIGHT, Gene, editor]. Houdini’s Magic Magazine. [Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Stories, Layouts, 1977-1978]. Vol. 1, no. 1 to vol. 2, no. 2. Five issues, complete file. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. Some rubbing, soiling, else fine. With articles about Doug Henning, Siegfried and Roy, Houdini, and the film, Close Encounters of the Third Kind. [And:] The New Conjurors’ Magazine [later] The Conjurors’ Magazine. [New York: Conjurors’ Press, February, 1945-September, 1949]. Vol. 1 no. 1 to vol. 5, no. 7. 55 issues, complete file. Publisher’s pictorial wrappers. Some wear, rubbing, soiling. Near fine. Houdini’s brother, Hardeen, helped launch this magazine, but died shortly thereafter. [And:] The CAM Flash [later] Northern Peaks Magazine. [Ontario: Official Magazine of the Canadian Association of Magicians, 1997-2014]. Vol. 1, no. 2 - Vol. 17, no. 1. One issue of CAM Flash is not dated or numbered, so may be vol. 1, no. 1. Staple-bound issues. Small 4tos. Illustrated. Some rubbing, minor soiling. Fine. 46 early issues of this Canadian magic magazine, still in print today. Several issues still in mailing envelopes.

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