Professor Angelo J Lewis Hoffmann (12 results)

Condition: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Paperback. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Trade Paperback. Condition: New. Date is approximate. A modern reprint of the original 1876 classic. New, unread paperback copy. A classic magic textbook which has been continuously in print since its first publication in 1876.

Trade Paperback. Condition: As New. 1st Edition. One of approximately 52 copies issued. As new. With a tipped-in original Goodall playing card as issued. 168 page trade paperback. Illustrated with many reproductions in colour.

Paperbound. Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. About fine with very slight, almost inevitable dust soiling to white covers. Plastic comb bound, 8.5" x 11". 102 pages. Illustrated with reproductions of some rare ephemeral writings by Professor Hoffmann (Angelo J. Lewis) The bibliography is primarily a catalog of the author's personal collection. Printed via offset press from dot matrix computer typesetting.…

Soft cover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Signature of magician Leo Behnke on inside front cover, with a detached ownership label laid in. Shading where label was attached to inside rear cover. Has a few pencil notations in corner of first page. Booklet has typical age-darkening to cover and paper. Some bends and creasing. Overall though, good condition. A posthumously published printed pamphlet in stiff printed paper wrappers. The effects were devised by Medrington and apparently written, edited, and in some cases improved by Hoffmann. Eight pages.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Good with a few stains to pictorial cloth and some fading to cloth along spine and rounding to corners. Old English price in pencil on flyleaf, otherwise no markings and no bookplate. Leaf 107/108 and adjacent pages have some stains. Cloth color is a light reddish brown. H.L. Schindler (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Later Printing. Later Printing. Maroon cloth with small nick/bump to lower front and rear edges and mild corner bumps, otherwise a remarkably near fine, fresh, tight, clean copy in the scarce pictorial dust jacket which is good, with some small chips and delicate jacket creases, one of which has a 2" cello tape reinforcement on the inside and some perforations running along the crease. This is the 1935 printing which utilized the revised text from 1911, which added new sections on miscellaneous tricks and Hartz. 738 pages, illustrated with drawings.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair to Good. 1st Edition. The low price of this copy is due to the condition being fair plus to good minus. Original cloth covers are worn around the edges with ink names of three prior owners: Charles W. Waldmann, E. (Eugene) Gloye, and Jessmah. No other markings. Light stains on rear cover. Spine dulled. Pictorial front cover is still quite readable. Some signatures are somewhat delicately bound. Unlike Hoffmann's other books, this one is exclusively devoted to inventions and routines of his own creation and the patter gives a good insight into the type of humorous Edwardian era presentations that Professor Hoffmann presented. 222 pages plus ads.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fair to Good. 1st Edition. With the bookplate of Baffles (a generic bookplate with his name rubber stamped on it) along with the hand printed ownership name of Magic Castle magician and magic author Leo Behnke on flyleaf. A good copy with some wear to cloth along edges and corners. Usual toning to paper of this age. Small sticker affixed to upper corner of flyleaf with the words 1st Ed adjacent in ink. No other markings. Pictorial front cover is still quite readable but with a few scratches. Unlike Hoffmann's other books, this one is exclusively devoted to inventions and routines of his own creation and the patter gives a good insight into the type of humorous Edwardian era presentations that Professor Hoffmann presented. 222 pages plus ads.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Not to be confused with similar title books extracted from Hoffmann's larger works on conjuring, this is an original publication under this title. 250 pages + ads. Red cloth with lovely pictorial decoration and gilt and black lettering. Spine is somewhat faded as usual, but otherwise a lovely, fresh, tight copy with some minor foxing to pages. Original endpapers. No restoration work. This copy should please the discriminating collector of Hoffmann first editions.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. A very good copy in original pictorial cloth with is dust soiled. Original tissue guard over frontispiece intact, but darkening as expected. 127 numbered pages. An unattributed pencil notation on rear flyleaf in the hand of Hoffmann scholar Thomas A. Sawyer indicates that this copy was sent to him by noted magic collector, J.B. Findlay. In this unusual magic publication, Hoffmann provides a lengthy, whimsical children's tale, which is punctuated with magical effects, which are then explained at length following the story. H.L. Shindler (illustrator). …