David Devant, First Edition (9 results)

Condition: Good. 1931. First Edition. 124 pages. No dust jacket. Orange cloth. Black and white illustrations throughout. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Good with cover partly separating from book proper. Could be re-glued. No previous owner marks. 64 pages of chilren's and platform magic with apparatus.

Hardcover (Original Cloth). Condition: Good Condition. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. First Edition. Original orange cloth spotted, clean internally. With the front jacket panel and spine laid in. Size: Octavo (8vo). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Magic, Paranormal & Occult; Inventory No: 044982.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Pages tanned, edges more so with some foxing, owner's name on front endpaper, cover a little shelfworn with a few bumps and scratches, backstrip faded, generally a good, sound copy. No wrapper. 'With contributions by thirty other famous magicians.'.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. 288pp, index, appendix, diagrams, bw photos. Red cloth, no jacket. Slight fading to spine, some foxing to prelims, foxing to page edges. Nice vintage book on conjuring. Size: 8vo.

Hb. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Maroon cloth on boards with gilt titles and blindstamped border trim; light dusting of soiling and small circle stain to front. Faint old sunning to spine and to front top margin. Spine: thin bumping to head & foot. Small bumping to boards fore corners. Edges: foxing and dusting of age soiling. Frontis: b/w photograph of David Levant. Few only pages with few only foxing to margins. B/w illustrations and line drawings. Binding is VG. 283p plus Index and adverts for Autobiography & Biographys. Dj: moderate soiling, rubbing and heavy with scratches. Top-edge with creasing wear, tears, chips and 8 x 2 cm sections missing. Bottom edge with wear, small open tears and chips.

Hard Cover. FIRST EDITION. Octavo, pp. viii, 152. 13 line-drawing diagrams within text. Publishers' paper-covered pictorial boards with catalogue to lower board. Binding in good condition, contents very good. Boards a little soiled and scuffed with wear to spine tips and corners. Free endpapers toned, contents clean other than pencil calculations to rear free endpaper. Rare early 20th century magic tutor, comprising instructions for 17 sensational feats including classics such as "The Thirty Card Trick", "The Dyed Handkerchiefs" and "Flowers from Nowhere".

Hardcover. First edition. 288 pp. + publisher's 32-page catalog at rear; frontispiece and 14 full-page plates from photographsm many illustrations in the text; octavo, maroon cloth with gilt spine title. English stage magician David Devant (1868-1941) was, according to Milbourne Christopher in his Panorama of Magic "the master performer of his time." Covers moderately faded, some foxing to text, else very good.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. 8vo. viii, 152 p. Illustrated grey paper boards with lettering in dark blue, and variant blue panel back drop on the front cover illustration. Presumed first edition. Light wear to the corners and lightly bumped spine ends. In the original glassine? Nice fresh copy. With in-text ills. in black and white.