Animal Wizards: A Critical History of Magicians' Most Trusting Assistants and Animal Wizards: An Insider's Guide
Published by Reginald Scot Books, 2025
Seller: Quicker than the Eye, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.Quicker than the Eye
AbeBooks seller since January 5, 2018
Condition: New
£ 46.70
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QTTE Exclusive - we are the only retailer carrying this book! Limited numbers available. This is a first edition set of two titles: Animal Wizards: A Critical History of Magicians’ Most Trusting Assistants and Animal Wizards: An Insider’s Guide. Animal Wizards: An Insider’s Guide In researching and shaping Animal Wizards: A Critical History of Magicians’ Most Trusting Assistants, even after sixty years’ reading and thinking about magic history, Jim Hagy daily discovered (often with delight, sometimes with dismay) something new to him about the collaboration between magicians and their animal companions. Animal Wizards: An Insider’s Guide shares historical details and personalities, anecdotes, tricks and outtakes in this “for magicians only” supplement to his study of animal performance and animal welfare during the heyday of conjuring in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Edition limited to 300 copies, sold only with Animal Wizards: A Critical History of Magicians’ Most Trusting Assistants. Animal Wizards: A Critical History of Magicians’ Most Trusting Assistants Through the centuries-old history of performance magic, animals have often been at the center of magicians’ tricks and illusions. They are as diverse as rabbits from hats, snakes in baskets, appearing birds and fish, mindreading dogs, and vanishing donkeys. Often the stories are entertaining; sometimes they are distressing. From Houdini to your local birthday party magician, their animals have had enduring connections with audiences. And the animals themselves have had to endure. The study of animals in magical entertainment in the 19th and early 20th centuries coincides with the evolution of societal attitudes about animals as amusement, as companions, as sources of labor and food, in science, and in emerging thought about animal welfare, law and policy. Whether your interest is amusing animals, or animal rights, there are stories for you in Animal Wizards: A Critical History of Magicians’ Most Trusting Assistants.…
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- Animal Wizards: A Critical History of Magicians' Most Trusting Assistants and Animal Wizards: An Insider's Guide
- Author
- Jim Hagy
- Publisher
- Reginald Scot Books
- Publication year
- 2025
- Condition
- New
- Seller catalogs
- Fine Books on Magic, Antiquarian to Modern
Quicker than the Eye
Chicago, IL, U.S.A.
AbeBooks seller since January 5, 2018
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Quicker than the Eye is the online retail shop for Potter & Potter Auctions. We specialize in the sale of paper Americana, vintage advertising and ephemera, rare books, playing cards, gambling memorabilia, posters, prints, and magicana—antiques and collectibles focused on magic and magicians. In addition, we have access to books, ephemera, apparatus, posters, and other items not listed in our catalog. Please feel free to contact us with any special requests or inquiries.
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