![Item #38290 A collection of Boston Museum ephemera [together with] Old Boston Museum Days](https://rulon.cdn.bibliopolis.com/images/noimage.png?auto=webp)
[Boston, Mass.]: [from 1873-1915]. An interesting and nostalgic mix of announcements, programs, and documentation from The Boston Museum (1841–1903) which was a theatre, wax museum, natural history museum, zoo, and art museum in 19th-century Boston, Massachusetts. 1) History of the Boston Museum, with a description of the alterations and improvements..... More
Berlin: Horsters Akademie fur magische Kunst, 1924. Staple bound periodical, 10.25" x 7.25"; pp. 15, [1]; illustrated throughout; pictorial printed self-wrappers; touch of soiling and wear, a little musty, very good. An early periodical for magicians. More
[n.p.]: AEW, [ca. 1940s]. 6.75" x 5", pp. [64]; text illustrations; staple bound with pictorial paper wrapper; closed tear to bottom of spine, bookseller's ticket on upper cover for "Phil Thomas' Yogi Magic Mart," text clean, good and sound. How to mark with ink, block out, rough up, cut out..... More
New York: The Players, 1965. Broadside invitation, 17 x 9.25 in.; illustrated by O. G. Estes; shallow tears at folds, else very good. A double-header invitation for a Buffet Dinner at The Players, NY to members, followed by showings of The Bells, and Moby-Dick, "A presentation of John Griggs' Bijou-Dream..... More
Thessaloniki: Institute for Balkan Studies, 1991. 8vo, pp. 209, [3]; text in English, French and German; text illustrations; printed paper wrappers; some toning to wrappers, near fine. Organized by the Institute for Balkan Studies and the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, October 1987. No. 226 in the Institute for..... More
Ann Arbor: Augustan Reprint Society, 1946-1948. 4 volumes (all published), 8vo; facsimile reprints; original green printed wrappers, edges a bit toned, light wear, else very good. Contents include: "A Letter to A.H. Esq; Concerning the Stage" (1698); "The Occasional Paper: No. IX" (1698); "Representation of the Impiety and Immorality of..... More
Chicago: Allied Arts Corporation, 1962. Theater program, 11 x 8.5 in., pp. 16, printed paper self-wrappers; wrappers wrinkled, text clean, very good. Together with: Foo Hsing Theater ... The beautiful bait. New York: Newcastle Press, [ca. 1962]; 12 x 9 in., pp. [20]; printed paper wrappers; wrappers rubbed and wrinkled..... More
[Guanzhou]: Guangdong People's Publishing House, 1985. First edition of 2000 copies, 8vo, pp. 18, [2], 833, [3]; text in Chinese, and largely comprised of facsimiles of the five operas; full red cloth; edges foxed, musty, therefore good in dustjacket and original slipcase. More
Taipei: Taiwan Student Bookstore, 1978. Large 8vos, 3 volumes, facsimiles of four Qing dramas and their collations; text in Chinese; green limp cloth covers, fine in fine clamshell box. The dramas represented are "荔鏡記" "荔枝記" "荔枝記" and "金花女" More
![Item #64014 能うたひ本 / Nou utaibon [= Book of noh plays] (cover title](https://rulon.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/64014_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1686949446)
[n.d. n.p], [early 19th c.?]. Likely an odd volume from a collection of noh plays, this volume including 白楽天 (Haku Rakuten), 安宅 (Ataka), 草紙洗 (Soushi arai), 春栄 (Shunei), 国栖 (Kuzu), ff. 12, 23, 17, 24, 15; woodblock printed text; stab stitched, blue paper covers, manuscript title label on upper cover;..... More
Bucaresti: fundația pentru literatură și artă Regele Carol II, 1938. First edition, 8vo, pp. 414, [2]; sixteen illustrated plates including a frontispiece facsimile of the first folio title page; contemporary buckram backed green cloth boards; frontispiece detached but present, else very good. The author of this book, possibly the first..... More
![Item #62488 Andrus notes. A collection of Jerry Andrus lecture notes & photographs [cover title]....](https://rulon.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/62488_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1676668081)
[Joyce WA: Chazpro Magic Co., 2004]. 4to, pp. 100; text illustrations throughout; printed white paper covers; bottom corner bumped, else fine, with errata slip for some illustrations laid in. Largely closeup magic with cards and optical illusions. More
![Item #62762 Nameless notes (on close-up magic) [cover title]. Jerry Andrus](https://rulon.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/62762_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1676668200)
[n.p.]: Published by the Author, 1964. Staple-bound pamphlet; pp. [2], 5, [1]; four composite plates with 103 figures; yellow pictorial wrappers; upper wrapper toned and a little soiled, final blank leaf with a manuscript routine in pen titled "Mumbo Jumbo," very good. More
Peiping [Beijing]: Henri Vetch, 1937. First edition, 8vo, pp. xxx, 443, [1]; 29 plates; full blue cloth; bookplate of Hamilton H. Anderson, M.D. on title page, obstructing imprint; very good in toned and chipped dust jacket. More
[Humble, TX]: H&R Magic Books, [2001]. 8vo, pp. xii, 111, [1]; full black cloth, gilt title on cover and spine; fine in fine dust jacket. A biography and analysis of one of the 20th's century's foremost mentalists, with contributions from Banachek, Lee Earle, Walter Gibson, Max Maven, Al Mann, and..... More
London: T. Becket and P.A. Dehondt, 1764. First edition, 2 volumes, 12mo; vol I: A6 b-c6 d3 B-2E6 [*] (ad); vol. II: [*] A-2H6 2I4; text in double column; full contemporary gilt-ruled calf, recently rebacked, modern red and black gilt-lettered spine labels, marbled endpapers; original boards a bit rubbed, occasional..... More
London: Pr. for W. Feales, 1735. 12mo, pp. [5], 8-79, [1]; frontispiece engraving by Vander Gucht after Vanderbank, title page printed in red and black; removed from binding, with sewing holes, margins lightly toned, spine re-backed in archival tissue, otherwise very good. More
[n.p.]: Gyromagnetic Press, 2011. First edition, 4to, pp. 368; text illustrations throughout; full black cloth, gilt title on spine; fine in fine dust jacket. "A collection of magic effects with cards, balls, coins, rings and unique apparatuses." For beginners to advanced performers. A companion DVD was produced but is not..... More
Berlin: Kunst und Gesellschaft, [1967]. 4to, pp. 473, [3]; text illustrations; tan cloth; pictorial dust jacket; dust jacket edge-worn, top edge a little soiled, near fine. More
London: Arthur H. Humphreys, 1912. First edition, square 16mo, pp. vii, [1], 83, [1]; three-quarter green levant over green linen sides by Bayntun, spine in 6 compartments, gilt-lettered in 3, t.e.g.; 6 mounted reproductions of engravings printed in sepia; fine copy. In addition to the title essay, the book contains..... More
Chicago: The Ireland Magic Company, 1966. Revised edition, small 4to, pp. xx, [2], 519, [3]; 669 illustrations in the text; full blue cloth; light spotting to edges, else fine in a lightly sunned dust jacket. More
Los Alamitos: Ridgeway Press, 1988. 8vo, pp. xiii, [1], 240, [4]; illustrations throughout; errata laid in; full green cloth; owner's signature on pastedown, else fine in a near fine dust jacket. More
[Urbana IL]: Pierrots of Illinois, 1922. 4to, pp. [10], 48; text illustrations; printed paper wrappers printed in blue and green; corners bumped, title page a touch soiled, very good. Includes the score for the play and playbill of all actors and staff. From the lyrics it's difficult to say why..... More
London [et al.]: Thomas Nelson & Sons, [1956]. First edition, 8vo, pp. x, 374; black & white photographic plates; original blue and red cloth gilt, pictorial endpapers; fine in dust jacket with some light rubbing at the edges and a 1-inch closed tear to the front flap. Includes the theaters..... More
London: published by the proprietor, J. Cole, Lincoln; and sold by J. Barker, Dramatic Repository, Great Russell Street; Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy; and Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, Paternoster Row, 1818. First edition, 8vo, pp. iv, 37, [1] inserted engraved frontispiece and vignette title page, 12 engraved plates drawn and engraved..... More
