Editor Will Dexter (12 results)

HARD COPY BLACK. Condition: Good. JACKET: TORN DJ. General shelf wear, light foxing, slightly age toned pages. Dust jacket torn DATE PUBLISHED: 1955 EDITION: 141.

Hardcover. N.s. Octavo, 265 pages. In Good plus condition. No dust jacket. Bound in green-blue textured boards with gold lettering on the spine. Small dent top front edge, top right front corner bumped, top and bottom of spine has small dents. Owner bookplate on inside front cover, end papers tanned. Text block has light age toning. Illustrated. Shelved in Alcove. 1392750. Special Collections.

Original Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Black cloth, lettered in gold foil. Text block edges a bit toned by age, otherwise nearly as issued. Color illus. dust jacket shows modest shelf wear with a few edge chips and areas of rubbing, minor soiling, still displays well in new mylar. 141 pp. Dated based on author's intro. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

1st edition. 8vo. 141pp. Pages lightly browned. Original black cloth with gilt lettered spine, slightly rubbed. US$18.

Hb. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: None. First Edition. "A Tribute to the memory of George Davenport and Lewis Davenport Instituted by the Council of the Magic Circle." Clean black cloth on boards with gilt titles. Small bumping to front boards bottom fore corner. Clean glossy content. B/w illustrations and line drawings. Binding is As New. 265p.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Stan Lane (illustrator). 1st Edition. 143pp in pictorial boards well used and rubbed to the extremities. Owner's inscription to the head of the front paste-down otherwise unmarked. Tipped in a business card for a "Versatile Magician" from High Wycombe.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Jacket and illustrations by Stan Lane (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition, first impression. Undated but 1957 from other bibliographic sources. Some edge wear, creasing, closed tears and loss to top and bottom of fab illustrated jacket and spine, small piece missing from centre front jacket, corners rubbed with loss, some slight scratches to spine, but jacket bright and unfaded. not price clipped (no published price), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a reasonable copy for its age. 143pp, lavishly illustrated. Will Dexter (1906-85), was a close up magic worker, mentalist, journalist and writer. Born William Thomas Pritchard in England, Dexter was a professional journalist who served as an editor for number of newspapers, and later as Editor and Publisher with Public Relations Industrial, London until his retirement in 1969. In retirement, he became a Daily Telegraph crossword compiler, he also ghosted several books for Robert Harbin and was a member of the Magic Circle, the British Ring, East Kent Magical Society, Nottingham Guild of Magicians and an Honorary Life Member of the Blackpool Magicians' Club. This is indispensable guide to the performance of his conjuring tricks. Scarce in this first impression.

Condition: Good. Blue textured cloth with gilt stamping on spine, pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated, 265 pages. Chips and wear to jacket, else in good condition. A collection of tricks by the leading members of the famous London-based magic club.

Hb. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: VG. First Edition. "A Tribute to the Memory of George Davenport and Lewis Davenport instituted by the Council of The Magic Circle." Clean blue cloth on boards with gilt titles. Thin bumping to foot of spine with light rubbing. Small bumping to front & rear bottom fore corner. Edges: moderate foxing. Eps: thin short ex-bookcover residue line to head & foot of ffep & refp; booksellers stamp to fep foot. Frontis to Introduction page: b/w photograph of Lewis Davenport. Clean glossy contents. Illustrated by line drawings. Binding is As New albeit only slightly cocked. 265p Dj: moderate soiling, rubbing and scratches. Spine: head & foot with wear, small tears and chips. Head & foot of flaps spines with small wear/tears, creasing and chips.Top and bottom edges with thin ex-bookcover residue line and some small closed splits.

8vo. pp 265.Original publisher's blue cloth lettered gilt at the spine . Black and white illustrations.VG+ First Edition. Hardback.

Hardback. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good to Poor. Drawings (illustrator). First Edition. Very good to inside with pages to the bottom right edge slightly wavey until about page 170. Dust jacket with half inch bit missing to top of spine; wear and tear to corners, less so to top and bottom back edges; creasing to front top edge, less so to bottom. Well illustrated throughout. POSTAGE OVERSEAS is charged at cost and should extra be needed this will be requested. Broadleaf Books is a secondhand bookshop in Abergavenny, South Wales. Enquiries and visits are very welcome. tp bk.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Included. 1st Edition. 8vo. Publishers Cloth in Original Dustwrapper. Signed by Francis White, President of The Magic Circle to Introduction Page. A VERY GOOD Dustwrapper. Slight Wear to Edges. A VERY GOOD+ Book. NO Inscriptions. PBFA Member. We Welcome Direct Contact With Our Customers. Contact Neil Ewart Rare Books If You Require Any Further Information or Images. Signed by Author(s).