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Sat, Dec 16, 2017 11:00AM EST - Sun, Dec 17, 2017 11:00AM EST
Lot 225

Modern Magic.

Estimate: $400 - $600

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Hoffmann, Professor (Angelo J. Lewis). Modern Magic. London: George Routledge and Sons, (1876). First Edition, First State. Publisher’s green pictorial cloth, later pink endpapers. Frontispiece under tissue guard. Illustrated. 8vo. Edges of covers mildly rubbed, soiling to covers and page edge, first gathering weakly hinged but holding; frontis., and prelims. foxed, pictorial conjuror’s stamp applied to first chapter page. Toole Stott 386. With the Routledge monogram on the title page, the front cover depicting the conjurer with black hat and gold cone, as called for on first states.

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