rawson clayton baker (5 risultati)

Super octavo, red buckram boards, gilt lettering to spine & front board, 111pp, illus, VG (light scuffing & bruising to extrems, light chafing & soiling to spine & boards, moderate tanning & light foxing to page edges & eps).

Hard Cover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: No Dust Jacket. Rawson, Clayton (illustratore). Second Edition. 111 pages. Binding is maroon cloth. The magic effects of famed magician Al Baker, who was Dean of the Society of American Magicians from 1941 to 1951. Card tricks, hair tricks, thread magic, coin, rope, mental acts, goldfish production, and more. The book is in very good condition: clean and tight; endpapers are toned; just a few faint spots of foxing on pages. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Limited Edition. Hardback. (1951). 8vo. Very Good. No dust jacket. Signed Limited Edition. This is Number 121 of a Limited Edition of 500 copies. Signed on Limitation/Copyright page. Black cloth with silver lettered front cover. Unfortunately, the previous owner has stamped his name on the top, bottom and fore edges and front free endpaper, title page and contents pages. 111pp. Illustrated. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. 8vo. Hardcover. Pp. 111. Scarce. In very good condition; cloth binding with gilt title and illustration on cover. Light shelf-wear to the cover, with faint scuffs and marks; spine has faded slightly. Minor rubbing at top and bottom of spine with corners lightly bumped. Pages themselves are clean and unmarked, though note that there is a very small mark at the bottom of page 41 and a small stain on page 88, in the centre of the page though the text is not obscured; it faintly seeps through to the diagram on page 87. Pen number written on front end-paper. Otherwise in excellent condition. Contains various b/w diagrams. Text and illustrations by Clayton Rawson, with a foreword by Dai Vernon and an introduction by Jean Hugard. Al Baker was a professional magician; an inventor of many tricks that he marketed including his Dictionary Test, Al Baker Slates and his version of the Rice bowls. Many of his silk magic effects were included in Rice's Encyclopedia of Silk Magic. Al Baker opened a magic shop with Martin Sunshine in Times Square. He also regularly contributed to The Sphinx and other magic magazines.

BLACK CLOTH. Condizione: NEAR FINE. RAWSON, CLAYTON) (illustratore). *FIRST EDITION*. "THIS IS NUMBER 320 OF A LIMITED DELUXE EDITION OF 500 COPIES." 111 PAGES. ILLUSTRATED, GOLD GILT LETTERING ON FRONT COVER. A CLEAN STRONG SQUARE TIGHT COPY. Size: OCTAVO.