Crayford Charles (59 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. FOULSHAM S CARD & CONJURING TRICKS ROBERTS & CRAYFORD 1930 S ? I am pleased to offer a somewhat scarce vintage book, titled: Foulsham s Card & Conjuring Tricks, by Charles Roberts and Charles Crayford. This small hard cover book (5 x 7 ½ inches, 156 pages) was published by David McKay Company of Philadelpha, no date found but estimated to be from the 1930 s. The book is bound in red cloth with black titles on the spine. It is well-illustrated with line drawings showing many of the points of the tricks. Condition: This book is in very good condition. The hard covers are dust-dulled and lightly soiled, and the spine is faded although the titles are still bright and fully legible. The boards are slightly bumped at the corners and spine tips. Inside, there is a former owner s name and address in pencil on the front endpaper. The interior pages are toned but without foxing or soiling. The hinges feel loose but are intact and the binding is thus tight and sound. This book is not ex-library or a remainder. …

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 156 Pages; Pages Tight; Moderate Page Wear; Pages Yellowed; Page Edges Darkened. Three Parts. No Markings On Pages; Faded Red Covers With Black Lettering On Spine. Some Rubbing, Smudges, Soiling Areas On Covers. Moderate Shelf Wear. No Date But Cir 1930'S. Introduction To Conjuring Tricks And Introduction To Card Tricks In Front. 101 Helpful Illustrations. Over 30 Card Tricks Include: Elementary Trick; The Ruffle; False Shuffle; Forcing Pack; The Torn Card Trick; The False Cut; Palming; The Bridge; Forcing, The Walking Card; The Invisibly Changing Cards, Etc. Conjuring Tricks Include: The String Trick; The Magic Corks; A Performing Cigar; The Mystic Nail; A Funny Funnel; Lidless Card Box; The Magic Button-Hole; A Basket Of Flowers; Traveling Egg; Tea Versus Coffee; Dyeing Handkerchief; A Vanishing Card; A Useful Matchbox; Indian Rope Trick; Corn Plasters; Rabbits Galore, Etc. Details Of How To Tackle Genuine Sleight Of Hand With Every Prospect Of Success. …

Paperback. Condition: New.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 63 pages. Plus 59 illustrations. (VM2).

Condition: Good. No Edition Remarks. 155 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth. Black and white illustrations throughout. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning.…

Self Wraps. Stapled Binding. Condition: Very Good Condition. Dust Jacket Condition: Good Dust Jacket. Foulsham's 'New" Popular Handbook Series. Bright yellow, red and black card binding. .Front flyleaf missing. 63pp. Content clean, bright and sound with paper tanned. 59 Helpful Illustrations By Rona Howard (illustrator).…

Condition: Fair. No Edition Remarks. 156 pages. No dust jacket. Brown cloth. Contains black and white illustrations throughout. Shaky binding due to cracked hinges, with loose boards, but all pages remain attached. Pages are mildly tanned, but text remains clear. Mild marking to some pages throughout; text is not obscured. Boards and spine have minimal shelf-wear, with mild corner bumping and crushing to ends. Spine is severely tanned. Moderate rubbing and scuffing overall, with some noticeable marking also.…

HARD COVER RED. Condition: Good. General shelfware, Foxing , 102 helpful illustrations. DATE PUBLISHED: EDITION: 155.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Undated, c.1925. Spine faded but no inscriptions.

Condition: New.

Condition: New. In English.

Hardcover. Condition: Good ++. Dust Jacket Condition: Dustjacket Fair++/Good. 156 pages. Dustjacket tatty to spine-ends, edges and corners, 2cm loss to bottom spine-end, end-creases. Hardback binding has moderate wear/light fading. Moderate creases to spine-ends, light wear to boards' corners. Page-edges/margins lightly browned. Pages clean. Undated - looks mid-20th century. …

Condition: Very Good. Yellow wrappers with dust jacket. Illustrated, 63 pages. Very good condition.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Date is an estimate. Very good with printed price on front cover blacked out. No prior owner markings. 40 page booklet is a curious combination of beginner tricks and puzzled along with advanced platform apparatus magic. Very attractive illustrated front cover printed in red and black.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Interior is complete, clean and unmarked. Printing and publication dates not given, suspect prior to WWII. Front hinge has torn, but pages have not been loosened. Hardcover has red cloth boards with gold lettering on spine. Book title impressed into front cover. No DJ. Not Stated (illustrator).…

SOFT COPY YELLOW. Condition: Fair. JACKET: YES. Front hinge cracked, Cover soiled, Age tonned, General shelf wear, Dust jacket included. DATE PUBLISHED: EDITION: 63.

PF. Condition: New.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 64 pages. Illustrated.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. ND but assumed 1940s as war economy standard production. All in VG internal order with self wrap pictorial cover over orange card.

Condition: Used - Good. Good paperback. 1st ed. War economy standard. Early pages a little dog-eared; yellow cover discoloured. Used - Good. Good paperback.

Condition: Fair. Red cloth with black stamping on spine. Illustrated, 156 pages. Soiling and wear, contents clean, fair condition.

Small 8vo. 63pp. B/w. illustrations. Bookseller's inkstamp and remains of sticker to title page. Paperback in original yellow wrapps. with black lettering, rubbed to edges with 2.5cm. tear to spine. US$6.

Octavo softcover (VG-); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book may reduce your overall postage costs. All online listings are held in Dunedin.…

Small octavo hardcover (scruffy); all our specials have minimal description to keep listing them viable. They are at least reading copies, complete and in reasonable condition, but usually secondhand; frequently they are superior examples. Ordering more than one book will reduce your overall postage costs.…

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 64 pages. 8.50x5.50x0.15 inches. In Stock.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. * CONDITION : Used - Good * OTHER: The cover has some heavy wear to the edges, the spine is ripped and creased. The binding is firm. The tanned pages are clean with some light edge wear. This book has 64 pages. All in all a nice example of this book.

Condition: Good. . Paperback. c. 1940s. Good clean copy. Covers showing a little age and shelf wear. Staining along stapled binding. Lightly toned, a little spotting on edges, text is crisp and clear and remains a good-very good copy. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. First Edition. The jacket is torn, creased and marked. The boards are edge rubbed. The binding is secure. Small sticker on the front paste down and small tan on the front end page. No inscriptions or annotations. Protected in cellophane. r*12/12/2023. JHK. Our orders are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. …

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Reprint. no date but probably 1940's, book clean and tight. DJ: edge wear Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Condition: Used - Very Good. VG paperback. Reprint. Undated reprint - bookseller's pencilled date of 11/51 (or 11/57); first published 1923. A tidy copy in tight binding; owner's notation on back cover verso Used - Very Good. VG paperback.