Wass Verrall (36 results)

Condition: Good. 1953. No Edition Remarks. 146 pages. Illustrated dust jacket over red cloth boards. Gilt lettering. Contains black and white illustrations. Clean pages and illustrations with light tanning and mild foxing throughout. More pronounced to free endpapers, pastedowns and textblock edges. Binding remains firm. Boards have mild edge-wear with slight rubbing to surfaces and bumping to corners. Gilt lettering is darkened. Moderate sunning to spine and edges with crushing to spine ends. Minor wear marks to boards. Unclipped jacket. Panels and spine have light edgewear with tears and creases. Visible wear marks to spine and panels. …

Soft cover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Ownership name and date of Eugene Gloye on blank preliminary page. Split about 2" along spine. Otherwise good with some fading to pale blue covers. Platform magic. Published as a gift to subscribers to THE SPHINX magazine. Includes some biographical material on author and illustrator on rear cover. 10 pages. Francis B. Martineau (illustrator).…

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 129 pages. Illustrated. (VM5/1).

Condition: Fair. 1931. No Edition Remarks. 77 pages. No dust jacket. Red paper covered boards. Black and white illustrations throughout. Pages and binding are presentable with common faults. Text is legible throughout. Some issues present such as cracking, inscriptions, inserts, moderate foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Binding remains firm. Boards have noticeable shelf wear with rubbing and corner bumping. Moderate tanning and marking. …

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 146 pages. Former owner's name stamped on top edge and at top edge of front past-down endpaper. Former owner's name stamped at top edge of front flap of dust jacket. Dust jacket rubbbed at edges. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good to Very Good. No Jacket. 96 pages. This is Volume II of what was intended to be a five volume series. So far as I know, only two volumes were ever published. Corners and edges of backstrip bumped. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Printed Wrapper. Condition: Good. First Edition. 132pp. Name on endpaper. Foxed throughout. Undated. Blue and white printed wrapper states price 3/-.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Dustwrapper has significant rubbing, fading to spine and tears to top and bottom of spine. Now in clear removable protective sleeve, not price clipped. Illustrated, bright and clean internally with little wear. Heavy book will require additional postage outside the UK.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: n/a. 1st Edition. Nice tight copy. No inscriptions. Lacks jacket, spine faded.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Foxing (brown stains) to page edges, paper age-darkened as expected, else good, tight, clean in a vg dust jacket with about 1/4" deep chip at top of spine and minor edgewear. NOT price-clipped. A collection of card tricks, flower and silk effects, and mechanical apparatus tricks. …

Hardcover. Condition: Near Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. Presumed First. Presumed first edition w/NAP & FPu(m,y), hardcover, has tiny skew to binding, slight bow to boards, very light bumps to spine ends and board corners, faint rubbing to boards with a touch of faint discoloration around edges of rear board, and a hint of a musty scent to text, otherwise a solid Near VG copy in Good+ dust jacket which has bumps with short tears and shallow chips to spine ends and corners, edgewear with short tears, a small peel across spine with touch of tape remaining at hinges, rubbing with some light staining to panels, and slight sunning to spine.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. 1st Printing. Hardcover. Book Condition: Very Good. Jacket Condition: Good. Verrall Wass Publications, London, UK 1936. First Edition. 1st Printing. 96 pages. Nice Firm Clean copy ! Size: 8vo. Games Amusement::Magic 5897.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Paper age-darkened as expected, else vg, tight, clean in a good dust jacket with fading to lettering on spine, some edgewear, 1.5" closed tear at base of front panel, and some dust soiling. NOT price-clipped. A collection of card tricks, flower and silk effects, and mechanical apparatus tricks.…

Condition: Good. 1936. No Edition Remarks. 21 pages. Paperback book with pictorial cover. Staple bound. 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. Paper cover has mild edge-wear with light rubbing and creasing. Some light marking and tanning. Creased front cover. …

Condition: Fair. Red cloth with gilt stamping on the front cover and spine, pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated, 146 pages. Chips to jacket, pen markings to pages, toning to spine, fair condition.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good to Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 77 pages. Lower edges of covers rubbed; upper edges slightly discolored. Dust jacket soiled. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Thomas, Gilbert and Walbrook Studios (illustrator).

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Grey boards with silver titles. Firm binding. Professional seller. All pictures are of the actual book that is for sale. Books are dispatched in cardboard packaging.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Unstated. Twelve tested Tricks For You by Wass, Verrall Wass, London, 1936 unstated edition Staplelbound in good condition. Text is clean and unmarked, binding tight, all staples in place, no loose pages. Cover is clean though tanning due to paper and age, otherwise very clean. Was say's it all in his opening statement. "There are no "HOPES" about these tricks, they are all so practical that certainty of working is assured. B&W illustrations, 31 pages, ads and flyer to purchase other books by Wass. Book.…

Paperback. Third Edition. This lovely paperback edition of 32 New DrawingRoom Deceptions by Verrall Wass is now in the possession of St Marys Books This book contains secrets of the tricks and was intended to be protected from the eyes of the general public and so was originally not sold in bookstalls or ordinary bookshops but only in magical depots This paperback book features a lovely illustration of a sternlooking magician to the cover Inside one finds 132 pages of text peppered with helpful black ink illustrations This book is in good condition and apart from some foxing and wear to the covers it has held up well This book is looking for a new home and would be a lovely gift to any budding magiciansnbsp. book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Bottom corners bumped, a few small stains on page edges, paper age-darkened as expected, else very good in very good dj with some rubbing and stains on rear panel and a 1.5" closed tear in bottom corner of front panel. No chips, and not price-clipped. A collection of card tricks, flower and silk effects, and mechanical apparatus tricks. …

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Spine has a bit of fade. Firm binding. Professional seller. All pictures are of the actual book that is for sale. Books are dispatched in cardboard packaging.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Rubber name stamp of magician/author Clettis V. Musson on front flyleaf. Paper age-darkened as expected. Good, tight, and otherwise clean in a good dust jacket with minor paper loss to extremities and some rubbing. NO jacket tears or chips, NOT price-clipped. A collection of card tricks, flower and silk effects, and mechanical apparatus tricks.…

Octavo hardcover (VG) in d/w (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.…

HB. Condition: VG. None. First Edition. Cover: faint dusting of a little soiling of beige cloth on boards, silver titles and silver magicians head with turban on front of cover. Edges: foxing. Eps: marbled with dj shadowing. Frontis after title page with b/w photo of 'The author pretending to work'. Light sprinkling of foxing to many pages. Illustrated by line drawings. Binding is As New. 96p. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Tight binding. First edition, first printing. Published by Edward Bagshawe & Co., London, 1931. Original softcover wrappers present. Light edge wear, corner wear, and age toning consistent with age. Spine shows handling wear with minor separation at extremities. Interior pages remain clean and solid. Ownership inscription of Arthur "Silent DeMello" dated 1931 on front endpaper. Provenance from the estate of Arthur "Silent DeMello," a professional stage magician active during the 1920s-1940s, known for his silent manipulation act and respected within early twentieth-century magic circles. Please Zoom Photos. Description: A scarce 1931 first edition of Essence: 30 Magical Experiments by Verrall Wass, illustrated by Gilbert Thomas and Walbrook Studios. This practical conjuring manual presents thirty magical effects from the golden age of British magic publishing. This particular copy carries notable provenance, bearing the contemporary ownership inscription of Arthur "Silent DeMello", linking it directly to an active working magician of the vaudeville era. Material from DeMello's estate adds historical and collector significance, especially for those focused on early magicana, magician-owned libraries, and performance history. A desirable and increasingly scarce title with documented magician provenance.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Volume ONE and volume TWO, all published of a projected five volume work. Therefore, there are actually far less than one hundred tricks as mentioned in the title. Both volumes have ink ownership name of magiician E. (Eugene) Gloye, himself, author of many magic books and a long running column in Linking Ring magazine. Laid into volume one is also a bookplate for another magician. Nick in cloth of vol. 1. otherwise each volume in good condition, but lacking the dust jackets. One volume deals with card magic, the other apparatus magic. 191 combined pages.…

Pamphlet. Condition: Very Good to Fine. Francis B. Martineau (illustrator).

Condition: Good. Cloth with black stamping on front cover and spine, dust jacket. Illustrated, 77 pages. Soiling and small chips to jacket, spotting to page edges, else good.

Condition: Good. Wrappers, illustrated, 22 pages. Spotting to covers and pages, else good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. 1st Printing. Hardcover. Book Condition: Very Good. Jacket Condition: Good. George Armstrong, London, UK 1953. First Edition. 1st Printing. 146 pages. Nice Firm Clean copy ! Size: 8vo. Games Amusement::Magic 5897.