The Magic Lantern: How to Buy and How to Use it, also How to Raise a Ghost
Published by Houlston and Wright, London, 1870
- Hardcover
- Used
Seller: Henry Pordes Books Ltd, London, United KingdomHenry Pordes Books Ltd
AbeBooks seller since February 14, 2007
Association member: PBFA
Condition: Used - Very good
US$ 241.27
Quantity: 1 available
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Small 8vo. Hardcover, Pp. 96. Rare. In very good condition; purple cloth binding, stamped in gilt and blind. Slight shelf-wear to cover with light scuffs; spine has faded, as have the upper edges. Gilt fore-edge. Pages themselves are clean and tight with few small marks throughout. There are two bookplates from George Johnson, a British writer, publisher, collector, magician, and editor of the Magic Wand from 1914 to 1945. One bookplate is pasted on the first clean page, and the other is loose. Advert labels pasted on front and rear end-paper. The title-page says that the book was authored by 'A Mere Phantom', whose identity remains evasive. The 'Fifteenth Thousand' statement on the title-page may have been an invention to promote sales, as there seems to be no proof that the book was released in special editions. Includes various pictures and diagrams for the use of a magic lantern.
Seller Inventory # 036586
Bibliographic details
- Title
- The Magic Lantern: How to Buy and How to Use it, also How to Raise a Ghost
- Author
- Anonymous
- Publisher
- Houlston and Wright, London
- Publication year
- 1870
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Dimensions
- Small 8vo
Henry Pordes Books Ltd
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One of the most famous and last surviving bookshops on Charing Cross Rd, Henry Pordes Books has been a favorite among book lovers for over thirty years. The shop stocks a broad and eclectic range of books, from modern firsts, early classics - including Shakespeare, Dickens, Austen, Wilde, Carroll, the Brontë sisters, Barrie, George Eliot and more - early and fine editions of major twentieth-century publishing ‘institutions’ such as Harry Potter, James Bond and the novels of Agatha Christie, P.G. Wodehouse, Graham Greene and Terry Pratchett, and rare antiquarian texts in the fields of medicine, science, sport, travel, history, religion, philosophy and Italian and French literature, to modern books on art, design, fashion, photography, architecture, natural history, archaeology, religion, mythology, folklore, cooking, drink, gardening, erotica, travel and children’s books. …
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United Kingdom
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