Bob Ostin (17 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Don Fortescue (illustrator). Binding tight, content clean and straight. If purchasing internationally, please inquire about shipping charges before purchase. Ships within 1-2 business days.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Fortescue, Don (illustrator). Blacked-out 3" notation on front fixed endpaper. Interior clean and unmarked.

Hard Cover. Condition: Fair. Front cover and spine have light discoloration, possibly result of insect damage. Internally fine, with minimal wear and no markings to text. ***Shipped within 24 hours from the beautiful Baltimore inner harbor area. First class service; accurate descriptions. Most items packed in boxes, not envelopes.***.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Blue cloth boards have insect depredation to the spine and front cover, binding sound, internally clean. Bob Ostin's classic work, long out of print, and full of outstanding material.Contains Thirty-one practical magic tricks. Illustrated, 88 pages.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No publication date-- estimate 1984. Spiralbound copy. Book has mild rubbing to covers and surface scratches to covers. Otherwise, the book is in very good condition-- clean, bright, sharp.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. Octavo. 88pp illustrated. A good copy in blue cloth without dj. One corner with a moisture stain.

Condition: Very Good. 1968. No Edition Remarks. 88 pages. No dust jacket. Blue cloth with gilt lettering. Black and white illustrations throughout. Pages are bright and clear with mild tanning to text block edges. Minor creasing to gutters and hinges. Binding remains firm. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with mild scuffing overall. Spine has light sunning with soft crushing to ends. Lettering remains bright and clear.

Condition: very good. Blue cloth hard cover with gilt lettering on spine, spiderweb style paper wrapper, illustrated, 88 pages. Very good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Reprint. Dustwrapper has slight rubbing, no fading or tears, not price clipped, no inscriptions. Illustrated, bright and clean internally with little wear. Heavy book will require additional postage outside the UK.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Don Fortescue (illustrator). Very good, tight, clean copy with no markings or bookplate. In good dust jacket with some dirt soiling to top corner of rear panel and mild edge wear. No jacket chips. This is a reprint of the original 1968 Goodliffe publication. Close Up magic with cards, coins, knives, and so forth.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. Perfect for the collector. Unread, no marking, no labels or price stickers were ever on this book.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Solid and square copy with previous owner's name on front end paper. Dust jacket has slight wear and is a little dulled.

88 pp. Illustrated by Don Fortescue. Publisher's blue cloth, no dust jacket. Spine ends and corners slightly bumped, rear board with some minor spotting. Condition Very Good.

Condition: Very Good. First edition hard back binding in publisher's original cornflower blue cloth covers, gilt title and author lettering to the spine. 8vo. 8½'' x 5½''. Contains 88 printed pages of text with monochrome illustrations throughout. Shallow rubs to the spine ends and corners and in Very Good condition, no dust wrapper. Member of the P.B.F.A. MAGIC & CONJURING.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Don Fortesque. (illustrator). 1st Edition. 88 pages with sleight of hand tricks for stage and street performers. easily understood and clearly explained and illustrated, cloth hardback. Not sure if it ever had a wrapper? As new internally, small hardly seen spot on cloth. Tricks inc; The Vanishing Biro, Card To Wallet, The Lie Detector, My Coin In Bottle, The "Which One" coin trick, Routine for the "Pencil Through The Penny" etc. Tall slim octavo.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Fair with a considerable amount of foxing to page edges in white dust jacket with no chips or tears. Mostly card magic with some rope, string, coin magic.

Cloth. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Don Fortescue (illustrator). Bob Ostin's book of methods and effects with illustrations by Don Fortescue. Second printing from the first edition published in 1968. Handbook to stage magic tricks of Bob Ostin, with illustrations by Don Fortescue.Complete with dust wrapper. In the original publisher's full cloth binding. Externally very smart with minor shelf wear only, lightly bumped to head and tail of spine and extremities. Dust wrapper unclipped and smart with some shelf wear, lightly sunned to spine, chipped to head and tail of spine. Internally, firmly bound. Pages bright and clean. Fine. book.