Potter & Potter Auctions
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The Magic Collection of Ray Goulet

Thu, Mar 28, 2019 09:30PM EDT
Lot 382

The Annals of Conjuring.

Estimate: $300 - $500

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Clarke, Sidney W. The Annals of Conjuring. N.p., n.d., ca. 1930. Green cloth lettered in gilt. Carbon type copy, printed on rectos only. 4to. 266pp. Light rubbing to covers. Bookplate of Stanley Simpson. Clarke?s history of conjuring was originally serialized in The Magic Wand between 1924?28, and outside of a four-copy author?s edition in 1929 was not available in book form until 1983. Copies of the work were coveted in the intervening years as collectors sought out the magazines, binding the serialized parts together. This typed edition is one we have not seen before. The copy is from the library of Stanley Simpson, who was president of the Associated Wizards of the South (Great Britain).