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(Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs - Including the Trevor Dawson Magic Collection, 30th September 2020) Magic, 19th & 20th century, a large collection including: Frost, Thomas. The Old Showman, 1874; Frost, Thomas. The Lives of the Conjurors. 1876; Bodie, W. Stage Stories. N.d., modern half calf; Houdin, R. Memoirs. Philadelphia, 1859, spotted, rebacked; The Magician’s Own Book or Whole Art of Conjuring. New York: Dick & Fitzgerald, 1857. First edition, frontispiece, additional title, illustrations, original brown pictorial cloth gilt, a little dampstaining, slightly rubbed, upper hinge weak; Dick & Fitzgerald, [1857], some spotting, hinges weak; Hone, W. The Every Day Book, 1831, contemporary half calf; Hone, W. Ancient Mysteries Described, 1823, ex-library, later cloth; Mayo, H. Popular Superstitions. Philadelphia, 1852, rebacked; The Secrets of Ancient and Modern Magic. N.Y. Wehman Bros. [c.1880], wrappers bound in; The Youth’s Handbook of Entertaining Knowledge. 1844, 2 volumes; Ganthony, R. Practical Ventriloquism. 1893; [Wiljalba Frikell]. Parlor Tricks with Cards, N.Y., 1863, pictorial boards; Martin, W. The Book of Sport, 1851 and 1853, one rebacked; Gilbert, C. Endless Mirth and Amusement. Ex-library Stanley Collins, with bookplate; Summers, T. Magic, Pretended Miracles. Nashville, 1857; Mitchell, T. Key to Ghostism. N.Y., 1880, pictorial cloth; Hood, T. Excursions into Puzzledom, 1879, J.B. Findlay copy with bookplate, pictorial cloth; Grimes J. Compendium of the Phreno-Philosophy of Human Nature. Boston, 1853, pictorial cloth, slightly dampstained; The Sociable 1001 Home Amusements, N.Y. [c.1858], rebacked; Bullivant, C. The Drawing Room Entertainer. 1904, pictorial cloth; Lane, E.W. Manners & Customs of the Modern Egyptians. 1890, hinges weak; Hingston, E. The Genial Showman. 1871, 3rd edition; Roterberg, A. Card Tricks, Chicago [c.1902], worn, wrappers bound in; New Era Card Tricks. 2004; The Magic Lantern… how to Raise a Ghost. 1886, pictorial boards, rebacked; Preston, P. The Fireside Magician. N.Y.: [1870], pictorial boards, rubbed, rebacked; The Play Room, N.Y. [1866], pictorial boards, worn, rebacked; R.T. Society. Remarkable Delusions, [c.1860], modern green quarter morocco; Raymond, Prof. Parlor Pastimes. N.Y. [1875], Margaret Yates Magic Library bookplate, quarter morocco, wrappers bound in; Timbs, J. Things not Generally Known. 1851; Timbs, J. Stories of Inventors and Discoveries. 1860; Planche, F. Evening Amusements. Philadelphia, [1872], lacks half title and endpapers; Garenne, H. The Art of Modern Conjuring, [c.1855], ex Order of the Magi, modern quarter morocco; Hoffmann, Prof. Modern Magic. [n.d.], 15th edition, pictorial cloth; Scot, R. The Discoverie of Witchcraft. 1995; Mephisto. Huis Catalogus – 9, wrappers; Foucaud, Edouard. The Book of Illustrious Mechanics. N.Y., 1846, rebacked; Philosophy in Sport, 1857, rebacked; Gay, J. The Fables, 1889; Good, A. Magic Experiments. Philadelphia, [1894], pictorial cloth; Goldston, W. The Young Conjuror. Part 2, pictorial boards; Shaw, W. Magic Up to Date, [1896], wrappers bound in; and a few pamphlets and catalogues including Nelson Enterprises and The Magical Apparatus Co., n.d.; Marshall, A. Beating a Dead Horse. 2020, number 30/69 copies signed, leather bound Gold Collector’s edition; Karr, Todd. The Silence of Chung Ling Soo. Miracle Factory, 2001, no. 42/75 copies signed, dw., collector’s box; Steele, M. Adelaide Hermann. Queen of Magic. 2012, number 55/125 copies signed, slipcase; Waller, C. Magical Nights at the Theatre, number 334/1000 copies, signed, dw; Bertram, Charles. Isn’t it Wonderful ? A History of Magic & Mystery, 1899. Illustrations, later cloth; “Selbit”. The Magician’s Handbook. c.1904, worn; Ganthony, R. Practical Ventriloquism. 1893, frontispiece, illustrations; Cockton, Henry. The Life and Adventures of Valentine Vox the Ventriloquist, [n.d., but c. 1900]; Burlinghame, H. Hermann the Great. Chicago, 1897, J.B. Findlay bookpl