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The Magic Collection of Jim Rawlins

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Lot 363

The Slayton Lyceum Bureau: A Book of the Greatest Lyceum Successes [cover title].

Estimate: $250 - $350

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Wagner, Charles L. The Slayton Lyceum Bureau: A Book of the Greatest Lyceum Successes [cover title]. Chicago: Hollister, (1903). Pictorial wrappers designed by Raymond Perry. Illustrated, including pasted and tipped-in portraits, announcement card, fold-out pages. Profusely illustrated, printed in up to three colors per page, on various colored papers and paper types. 4to. Wrappers chipped, internally fine. Rare; OCLC records no copies. A specially-printed souvenir book filled with specimen programs for Slayton?s top actors, musicians, singers, lecturers, humorists, and other entertainers, among them magician and illusionist Harry Jansen (later and more familiarly Dante) and the Jansen Carnival Company, Olof Krarer the Little Esquimaux Lady, and others.