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The Salon de Magie Part IV

Sat, Jun 21, 2025 12:00PM EDT
Lot 446

NIXON, W.J. “Doc." Three Nixon Manuscripts and Ephemera. In...

Estimate: $250 - $500

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NIXON, W.J. ?Doc." Three Nixon Manuscripts and Ephemera. Including: The Nixon Ghost Manuscript (1929), with single 8 x 10" photograph illustrating the methods in the manuscript; Now You Try One (1932; issued for the IMC convention in Kalamazoo); and The Nixon Manuscript (ca. 1920), disbound, but with an accompanying suite of blueprints. 4tos, two with original wrappers and accompanied by modern typescripts of the works. Sold together with a four-page TLS from Nixon to a customer regarding the construction of effects, a TL from Nixon to John Mulholland, a RPPC showing Nixon props in the Barbour collection with Nixon's rubber stamp to verso, and a theatre marquee photo for Chandu the magician INSCRIBED AND SIGNED by Nixon to John Mulholland on the verso calling himself ?the original Chandu."