Published by Max Holden, New York, Boston, Philadelphia, 1940
Seller: Aladdin Books, Fullerton, CA, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Good. Nelson C. Hahne (illustrator). First Thus. Good in stiff yellow pictorial paper covers. Standard age-toning to paper. 93 pages. Originally published in three softbound manuscripts by the Welworth Company, this is the 1940 edition revised by Jean Hugard. (This is the paperbound "trade" ed. Same edition also issued in a small run of hardcovers).
Published by D. Robbins & Co., Inc, Brooklyn, New York
Seller: About Books, Henderson, NV, U.S.A.
Hardcover. Condition: Fine condition. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good dust jacket. Hahne, Nelson (illustrations by) (illustrator). Fourth printing of the Revised edition. Brooklyn, New York: D. Robbins & Co., Inc HARDCOVER. Fine condition in a bright and shiny Very Good dust jacket. SEE OUR PHOTOS. The jacket has a few short closed edge tears that have been neatly reinforced with clear tape on the blank side. NOT a library discard. NO owner's name or bookplate. NOT a remainder. Sharp corners. Pages are clean and unmarked. No date indicated (but 1970s?). Illustrated with black and white drawings. Bound in the original gilt-stamped black cloth. "Jean Hugard" is a pseudonym for John Gerard Rodney Boyce. This standard text started life as Glenn Gravatt's ENCYCLOPEDIA OF SELF-WORKING CARD TRICKS (1936). "The editors [of this edition] have revised and greatly improved the text of the original edition, and the overall quality of the effects is most impressive." -- Gill 525. Fourth printing of the Revised edition. Hardcover. Fine condition/Very Good dust jacket. Illus. by Hahne, Nelson (illustrations by). 8vo. ii, 403pp. + 11 pages of ads. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.
Language: English
Published by Samuel Moxon, Printer, 1882
Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Fifth Edition. Half maroon leather with maroon cloth boards, gilt title to spine. Previous owners names to ffep. Tinted frontispiece and tinted illustrations at beginning of section I and II with black and white sketches within text, and with ground plan of Kirkstall Abbey at rear. 8vo. pp. 91.