Dante Devil by Temple Phil (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Color & b/w Photos & Illustrations (illustrator). Limited Edition. Harry August Jansen (October 3, 1883 - June 15, 1955), was born in Copenhagen, Denmark and settled in the United States. He traveled the world as a professional magician under the name Dante the Magician.

Hardcover. Hardcover. 1991. Book has tape on closed tear on front of jacket, else Book and Jacket are in Very Good Plus condition. ; 4to 11" - 13" tall; 251 pages.

Hardcover. Limited unnumbered edition. SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR, ALSO SIGNED BY TWO OF DANTE'S ASSISTANTS. 4to. [9], 251, 24pp. Green cloth with gold lettering on cover and spine in original color illustrated dust jacket. Magic historian Phil Temple's "Dante: The Devil Himself" is based largely on Dante's personal records and Temple's friendship with surviving family members who had toured with the show decades earlier. Dante the Magician (a.k.a. Harry August Jansen) was the king in the golden age of big illusion shows. One of the most magnificent magic shows was the spectacular Sim Sala Bim, a extravaganza of magic, music and laughter. Printed b/w sketch of Dante and Moi-Yo Miller in Sim Sala Bim mounted on inside of front board. Sketch signed by Temple, Moi-Yo Miller Montes, Arturo Montes and Marion Trikosko. Moi-Yo Miller was the stage name of Mona Loretta Miller, an Australian who became the principal assistant to Dante. Miller became an integral part of Dante's show Sim Sala Bim. Marion S. Trikosko spent two years (1943-45) with Dante as his assistant. His book "Trouping with Dante," was published in 2006. Mounted below sketch is Temple's business card. Inscription on free front endpaper: "For: Edward Hume The New "Lord" of "Rancho Dante". With the sincerest best wishes of the author & publisher, Phil Temple - 2/93 -." Frontispiece of Dante. Foreword by Moi-Yo Miller Montes. Profusely illustrated with "Jansen the great transformist" and "Dante the Magician" color posters & b/w reproductions of photographs. Special 24 page Sim Sala Bim section in rear. Tail of spine slightly bumped and creased. Minor creasing and staining on dj. Tight copy with dj in good+, book in very good condition. Unique signed association copy.

Cloth. Condition: Very Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Fine. First Edition. Hardcover in boldly colored pictorial dust-jacket, protected in accetate covers. Original price unclipped on rear dust-jacket flap. First limited edition. Boldly flatsigned on title page by Phil Temple. 251pp., plus 26p. appendix on Dante's life and carrer. Profusely illustrated with monochrome photographs and several pages of full four-clor reproductions of original Dante show posters. A typed 8 1/2" by 11" broadside by author laid-in explaining production delays. An exceedingly scarce, privately printed survey of Harry August Jansen - aka "Dante the Magician", a pioneering stage performer. An as new copy with no faults or flaws, and,as of this listing, the only signed copy available. Signed by Author(s).