Ernest Noakes (16 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 20 pages. Illustrated. Ernest E Noakes "An Emergency Trick" / Bruce Hurling "A Sensational Card Effect" / Wilfred Healy "Home-Made Apparatus" / Stanley Witcher "A Trick for the Enthusiast" / Stanley Witcher "A New Fire and Flower Bowl" / Roy Cowl "The New 'Cards to Boxes'" / Edward Cooper "The Flame of Pharos" / Melvano "Polychromic Paper" (VM7).

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. With the bookplate of two magicians on inside front cover: Raymond V. Stone and Leslie C. Smith (longtime proprietor of Owen Magic Supreme) Generally good, but chipping and tears to edges of cover and string binding is partly damage. 92 pages.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Near very good with some inevitable bends and creases to outer edges of cover. With the bookplate of magician R.J. Knight on inside front cover as well as the light pencil signature of British magic collector Jack Morrison on blank preliminary page. No other markings. Includes the LeDair-Graeme Athol pocket knife thru hank routine. 93 pages.

Condition: good. Pictorial green boards. Illustrated. Prefaced by Nevil Maskelyne, the book is a recounting of the "amusing experiences of an expositor of the art of magic." Some foxing to pages, soiling and chips to covers and spine, page edges toned, else in good condition. Condition may vary slightly.

Paperback. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Wraps. 8vo. pp 38. Stapled booklet. Original publisher's illustrated covers, lettered blue. With the bookplate of the late Christopher Brinson, a collector of books on magic, researcher and author of works on magic (Arcady Press). The bookplate shows a sphinx with pyramids in the background and conjuring tools in the foreground including a magic wand. A limited edition of 225 copies, this being no. two. Fine.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 8vo. viii, 85 pages, plus one leaf of publisher's ads at rear. Original publisher's pictorial paper covered green boards. With the bookplate of the late Christopher Brinson, a collector of books on magic, researcher and author of works on magic (Arcady Press). The bookplate shows a sphinx with pyramids in the background and conjuring tools in the foreground including a magic wand. Loosely inserted is a cutting of a 3 page article by Peter Warlock with memories of Noakes. Light wear (sl creasing at spine, spine ends very slight chipped) otherwise very good.

Boards. Condition: Good. viii, 85 pages, plus one leaf of ads at rear. Pictorial paper covered boards rubbed. Ex Montreal Fraser Institute library with their plate to front pastedown, accession number to foot of Contents page, small circular blind embossed seal to page 9, and pocket at rear. Thumbing to first few leaves but overall a clean interior. Binding sound and hinges secure.

Soft. No Jacket. First Edition. Paperback First Edition With a preface by JN Maskelyne Original card covers with a printed pictorial of a magician to the front In good condition despite a little discolouration to the covers Slight fading to the spine with minor loss to the base The rear cover is partly detached from the contents The pages are lightly toned although clean throughout Illustrated with a frontispiece portrait of Ernest E Noakes with several line drawings throughout pp xii 161 2 Overall a good copynbsp. book.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 161 pages. Gilt top edge. Preface by J. N. Maskelyne. Free endpapers, both front and rear, are slightly discolored. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Good in original stiff pictorial green cardboard covers with the rubber-stamped name of magician ALMA on front cover and inside book. Some abrasions to paper covered-board along lower edge of front hinge. A few pages have been roughly separated resulting in some paper chipping to outer margins. 85 pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Good in original red cloth with gilt titles and decoration. Top corners bumped. Gilt bright on front cover, dulled on spine. Usual age-darkening to paper. Previously owned by L.A. magician Dana Waldron with his distinctive "W" stamp on front flyleaf. A few pages have some offsetting from previous insertion of acidic paper. Hinges sound. Two leaves roughly opened with a 1.5" tear to one leaf. No jacket. Primarily the author's original platform magic apparatus effects though the book commences with a few card and coin effects. 161 pages, illustrated.

Octavo red cloth boards, gilt lettering to spine and front, gilt magician illustration to front, top edge gilt, xii+161pp+adverts at rear, illus., VG+ (light tanning and occasional light foxing to edges and within) in d/w VG- (moderate foxing and scuffing, chipping; little approx 2cm segment missing to top of spine, takes out part of the title).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Good in original red cloth with gilt titles and decoration. Gilt dulled. Endsheets discolored. No bookplate or prior owner markings. Usual age-darkening to paper. Previously owned by L.A. magician Dana Waldron with his distinctive "W" stamp on front flyleaf. Hinges sound.No jacket. Primarily the author's original platform magic apparatus effects though the book commences with a few card and coin effects. 161 pages, illustrated.

Cloth. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Title on spine has darkened. Fox-marking on front and rear end papers. Some wear on extremitites. Gold gilt title and cover design. Inscription by author as follows: "To G. Gordon Powell with kindest regards from the author." April 1914. Preface by J.N. Maskelyne. Small attached sheet provides brief description of, and advertisment for, the author. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Inscribed By Author.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Small 8vo. Hardcover. Pp. 161. First Edition, and inscribed by the author on the back of the frontispiece. In very good condition; professionally rebound in maroon cloth with gilt title on the spine. Slight shelf-wear to cover with light bumping at the bottom of the spine. Pages themselves are clean and unmarked with light foxing. Front end-paper and half-title slightly folded in the bottom right corner. Some pages are somewhat creased along the hinge, due to the new binding. Ernest Noakes was a London society magician and a prominent member of the Magic Circle. Noakes was the second President of the Magic Circle and later as Honorary Vice President. In the early spring of 1907, performed at the Electric Theatre at the Crystal Palace for a total of fifty weeks, during which he gave well over a thousand performances. Inscribed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition. Inscribed on half title "All good wishes, The Author April 1914," signed in the year of publication. xii, 161, (1) (2 ads) pp. Red cloth with gilt decoration on front board, green on spine. Very Good+ in rare original dust jacket, spine panel darkened, chipped at edges, some rubbing and light soiling, small ink stain on front panel, closed tear on back panel; Good+. Boards a little rubbed, offsetting to endpapers. A guide to magic tricks by Ernest E. Noakes (1873-1956), a London society magician and prominent member of The Magic Circle.