Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. Nelson Hahne (illustratore). Revised Edition. Very good with no markings. Date is an estimate. Reprint of the original Max Holden edition which itself was a revision of the 1920s Welworth company manuscript format trilogy. Advanced sleight of hand card magic.
Hardcover. D. Dobbins & Co., Inc. Brooklyn. Hardcover. Large format. Like new. This pressing is not dated, but it is the fifth edition. Lightly illustrated with black and white drawings. Includes 11-page section in rear of a catalog of selected magic books in many fields of interest. 403 pages.
Editore: Faber and Faber, London, 1964
Da: Sheila B. Amdur, Coventry, CT, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condizione: Near Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine. Green cloth. Pictorial DJ.
Editore: Louis Tannen, New York, 1964
Da: Ken Jackson, Calgary, AB, Canada
Soft cover. Condizione: Good. Nelson Hahne (illustratore). Reprint of the revised edition. 93 pp. Illustrations, footnotes, bibliography. The covers are soiled, the contents are fine. Good.
Editore: Max Holden, New York, Boston, Philadelphia, 1940
Da: Aladdin Books, Fullerton, CA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Nelson C. Hahne (illustratore). First Thus. Good in stiff yellow pictorial paper covers. Standard age-toning to paper. 93 pages. Originally published in three softbound manuscripts by the Welworth Company, this is the 1940 edition revised by Jean Hugard. (This is the paperbound "trade" ed. Same edition also issued in a small run of hardcovers).
Editore: D. Robbins & Co., Inc, Brooklyn, New York
Da: About Books, Henderson, NV, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condizione: Fine condition. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good dust jacket. Hahne, Nelson (illustrations by) (illustratore). Fourth printing of the Revised edition. Brooklyn, New York: D. Robbins & Co., Inc HARDCOVER. Fine condition in a bright and shiny Very Good dust jacket. SEE OUR PHOTOS. The jacket has a few short closed edge tears that have been neatly reinforced with clear tape on the blank side. NOT a library discard. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a remainder. Sharp corners. Pages are clean and unmarked. No date indicated (but 1970s?). Illustrated with black and white drawings. Bound in the original gilt-stamped black cloth. "Jean Hugard" is a pseudonym for John Gerard Rodney Boyce. This standard text started life as Glenn Gravatt's ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SELF-WORKING CARD TRICKS (1936). "The editors [of this edition] have revised and greatly improved the text of the original edition, and the overall quality of the effects is most impressive." -- Gill 525. Fourth printing of the Revised edition. Hardcover. Fine condition/Very Good dust jacket. Illus. by Hahne, Nelson (illustrations by). 8vo. ii, 403pp. + 11 pages of ads. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.
Editore: FABER & FABER, LONDON, ENGLAND, 1961
Da: Gian Luigi Fine Books, Albany, NY, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condizione: VG. Condizione sovraccoperta: VG. small closed tear to the unclipped dj, clean copy.
Editore: Faber & Faber, London, 1961
Da: Jaycey Books, Ruislip, Regno Unito
Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good +. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good +. Excellent hardback and jacket. No inscriptions. --- General information: please email for any more information or condition photos. There may be other minor faults not included here, but this description should include all important points and convey accurately the overall conditon of the book(s). We are happy to give a more detailed description (by volume where applicable) on request. Posted next day (Mon-Fri) from the UK. We normally post by Royal Mail 1st class within the UK, but may use a slower service for books over 1kg or multiple orders or a tracked service for higher value orders. We normally post by Royal Mail Tracked for overseas deliveries, and may request additional postage (at cost) for heavier books (buyers always have the option to cancel the order if we do so).
Editore: Fleming Book Company, Berkeley Heights, New Jersey, 1945
Da: Americana Books, ABAA, Stone Mt, GA, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: Very good. First Edition. Octavo. xii, [1], 528 pages. Illustrated with drawings. Light blue cloth hardcover with gilt tittle and illustration on the front cover. Gilt title on the spine. Previous owner illustrated bookplate on the front paste down (Ralph Wendell Calvert, Jr.). Bookstore label on the bottom rear paste down (Golden Gate Magic Co.).
Editore: Carl Waring Jones , Privately Printed for Professional & Amateur Magicians, USA, 1947
Da: BOOKMARK, Auckland, Nuova Zelanda
Prima edizione
Hb. Condizione: VG. Condizione sovraccoperta: None. Eighth Impression Revised Edition. Cloth on board , once red now faded to a light pinkish; gilt titles. Light soiling and rubbings. Head of spine with small open wear to corners. Edges: mild old foxings, small ink circle to bottom edge. Eps: ffep with faded signature and address to top margin. Just a few pages with a couple of foxings to the margins. illustrated by line drawings. Binding is VG+, albeit being a heavy book, feels a touch loose. 1006p Book: 1 kg.
Editore: Max Holden, New York, Boston, Philadelphia, 1940
Da: Aladdin Books, Fullerton, CA, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: Good. Nelson C. Hahne (illustratore). First Revised Edition. Pictorial blue cloth. Some fading to cloth along top edge and spine. Slight water ripple in upper margin of pages. No staining. Standard age-toning to paper. 93 pages. Originally published in three softbound manuscripts by the Welworth Company, this is the scarce hardcover first printing of the printed and bound edition revised by Jean Hugard.
Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. Stanley Jaks (illustratore). Orange boards with black illustration on cover and title to spine.
Editore: Minneapolis, Carl Waring Jones, Privately Printed, 1947 printing (Eighth Impression of Revised Edition). [, 1947
Da: Reiner Books, Minneapolis, MN, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. ] Hardback, very thick tall octavo, appx 6 1/2 x 9 1/4 inches, gilt titling & graphics on reddish cloth covers, pp [xviii], 1006, [ii], VG or better/no dj (stiff clear acetate dustwrapper provided to preserve condition). Tight binding w/ hinges intact & externally quite nice. Small name (Minneapolis corporate Sales Training Director) top corner inside front cover & same owner's business card neatly stapled-in top edge ffep with card facing half-title page. Two consecutive pages small, very shallow edge crinkle near lower corner. Many b&w line drawings in the book. Indexed. Due to size & weight International order will require additional shipping charges. RWR5 Hobbies Playing Cards Tricks Games Sleight of Hand Stage Performance Performing Occult Mystical.
Editore: Carl Waring Jones , Privately Printed for Professional & Amateur Magicians, USA, 1947
Da: BOOKMARK, Auckland, Nuova Zelanda
Prima edizione
Hb. Condizione: VG. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. Ninth Impression Revised Edition. Clean light red cloth on boards with gilt titles and gilt devil in formal dress on front cover. Thin touches of old sunning (now browned) to margins, head & foot of spine and fore corners. Edges: light age browning, moderate foxing and soiling. Eps: ex-cellotape residue; dusting of foxing and soiling; ffep with name/address, name stamp to head and Please Return to bottom with lines crossed over two of the texts. Clean content. Illustrated drawings. Binding is VG albeit being a heavy book now feels a touch loose. 1006p, Dj: moderate yellowing, soiling, light foxing and rubbed wear. Top and bottom edges with wear, small open tears and sections missing and chips. Cellotape residue to flaps. 4cm open tear to head of rear flap spine.
Editore: Carl Waring Jones , Privately Printed for Professional & Amateur Magicians, USA, 1938
Da: BOOKMARK, Auckland, Nuova Zelanda
Prima edizione
Hb. Condizione: VG. Condizione sovraccoperta: None. Harlan Taarbell, 1111 Illustrations (illustratore). First Edition. Cover: maroon cloth on boards, somewhat faded black titles on spine. Cover is moderately rubbed, faint dusting of just a little age soiling and touch fading. Edges: foxing and light dusting of soiling. Owners US name/address sticker to fep & title page. Eps: age yellowing, touch of foxing and soiling; name stamp to head ffep. Clean content. Comprehensive line drawings. Binding is VG albeit slightly loose being a thick book. Two line notes to head of refp. 235 x 160 x 60 mm 1004p.
Condizione: Fine. The book is in fine condition.
Condizione: Fine. The book is in fine condition.
Editore: A.S. Barnes and Company with Carl Waring Jones, New York & Minneapolis, 1956
Da: Aladdin Books, Fullerton, CA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. Harlan Tarbell (illustratore). First Thus. Complete set of all five volumes. A.S. Barnes, in 1956 partnered with Carl Waring Jones to reissue GREATER MAGIC as a five volume set. All volumes are very good in good or better dust jack4et. Volumes II, III, and V show some fading along spine. Volume I has a small chip at base of spine, but overall the jackets are in nice shape and none are price-clipped. End sheets have some minor natural toning. This five volume edition follows the same text as the revised one volume edition but adds new frontispieces to each volume. 998 pages including an index to all five volumes found in Volume 5 as wel as the review of chapters found in all five volumes.