7 articles: "In the Magic Circle", "Ghost-Making Extraordinary", "The Romance of Automata", "Some Old Time Conjurers", "The Secrets of Second Sight", "Some Magicians I Have Met", "Treweyism", all in "Open Court".

(MAGIC and Magicians) Henry Ridgley Evans

Published by Open Court Press, Chicago, 1905

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(MAGIC and Magicians) Henry Ridgley Evans, 7 articles, including: "In the Magic Circle", "Ghost-Making Extraordinary", "The Romance of Automata", "Some Old Time Conjurers", "The Secrets of Second Sight", "Some Magicians I Have Met", "Treweyism". All published and bound in Paul Carus' very eclectic "The Open Court, a Monthly Magazine", Chicago by the Open Court, 1905, volume 19, 768pp, a full year. Bound with all 12 issues' front and rear wrappers, bound in at end. Occasionally unopened. Bound in the 1930s (?) in black cloth. Provenance: Bureau of American Ethnology, and then the Smithsonian Institution Library, with their stamps on title page. (There is also a small "SI Library" gilt stamp on spine bottom.) VG copy. Of the many contributors to this volume are these by the magician/and historian of magic, Henry Ridgley Evans, which occupy pp. 67-74, 131-140, 337-357, 398-408, 454-476, 524-537 (84pp all together). Henry Ridgely Evans (1861 1949) was an American amateur magician and historian of magic, who among other things "inherited" Harry Houdini's research for his own history of magic. (If you knew enough to search for Mr. Evans than you automatically know more than I about this subject.).

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• Title: 7 articles: "In the Magic Circle", "Ghost-Making Extraordinary", "The Romance of Automata", "Some Old Time Conjurers", "The Secrets of Second Sight", "Some Magicians I Have Met", "Treweyism", all in "Open Court".
• Publisher: Open Court Press, Chicago
• Publication Date: 1905
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
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