The Ricky Jay Collection Part II
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Lot 298
[VENTRILOQUISM] Five Chapbooks by or About Ventriloquists a...
Estimate: $500 - $1,000
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[VENTRILOQUISM]?FIVE CHAPBOOKS BY OR ABOUT VENTRILOQUISTS AND THEIR ART.?Including: Griffin?s New Key to Ventriloquism and Polyphony! 1893. Stiff pictorial wraps, illustrated with woodcuts. Dampstained in lower margin. ? [Deadwood Dick Library] The Ventriloquist Detective. Cleveland: Arthur Westbrook Co., 1899. Hand-colored pictorial wraps. 28pp. Paper browned as expected. ? Lieut. W. Allen?s Book on Ventriloquism. (New York: Dick?s Publishing House, ca. 1899.) Pink wraps with wood-engraved image of Allen and his figures. Illustrated. Includes conjuring tricks and songs. ? Hand-Book of Alex Davis. Magic and Mystery and Ventriloquism Explained. Melbourne: Wm. Marshall & Co. Printers, ca. 1886. Blue printed wraps. 16pp. Wraps detached. ? Maccabe?s Ventriloquism and Vocal Illusions. New York: Robert Dewitt, 1875. Pictorial wraps (badly stained). 56pp. plus ads. 8vos and smaller with condition varying as noted; a good group including uncommon ephemeral titles.
