[PERIODICALS ? MAGIC]. Edwin Dawes' Lifetime Collection of Magic Periodicals. 1900s ? 2000s. Approximately 2000 individual issues, including bound and loose volumes, featuring many of the most famous and many obscure periodicals of the twentieth century. Included are long runs or near-complete files of important journals: Tops, Genii, The Magic Circular (including bound volumes of the first several volumes), Conjuror's Monthly (edited by Houdini; approximately 15 issues), Pentagram, Hugard's Magic Monthly (including bound reprints), The Jinx, The Sphinx, Tops, and others; together with short runs and individual issues from dozens of other publications, many of them obscure and little-known, including the Geniis Magical Journal, AIMC Bulletin, Servante, Magicians' Weekly (lacking only the final issue for completion), Magical Observer, Thaumaturgist, and dozens more. 4tos and 8vos, with some issues in poor condition or incomplete, but with the majority well-kept and in good or very good condition. A wide-ranging assortment of periodicals documenting the vast majority of magic and the development of its tricks and techniques over the course of nearly 100 years. Photographs show only a small portion of the included periodicals.