Howard Melson (16 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Sid Lorraine & Howard Melson (Illustrators) (illustrator). Dover Reprint. Text/Bright, clean, AS NEW. Illustrated softcover/VG; strong w/edge rubs & light surface wear. PO name strike-out & inked numerals to fEP. Reference & resource. Step-by-Step secrets to some 150 best rope tricks. This is a 1975 Dover issue of the 3rd (1945) printing of the orginal volume. 400 pgs augmented by 510 line drawings & diagrams. Strong copy despite flaws.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 32 pages. Illustrated. Roxy "Tel-O-Cards" / Anthony Dunn "Dice Prediction" / Henry Durkin "Mind Over Matter" / Roxy "Controlled Thought" and "Clinsite" / Very Douglas "Smoke Up" / The Amazing Maurice "Book Of Matches On A String" and "The Miser's Goldfish Bowl" and "New Version Of Cut String" / Henry Durkin "25th Century Poker Chips" / A Dunn "Oxygen Hydrogen" / Sid Lorraine"Chatter" / Frank Garcia "New York Magi-Chat" (VM7).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 32 pages. Illustrated. Roxy "Presto Card Change" and "Perfect Invisible Pass" / Henry During "The Oracle"and "Werzit Card" / The Amazing Maurice "Politic Magic" and "The Flying Ace" and "Card Between" / Tricks of East Indian Magicians / Bert Douglas "Yellow Joe" / Terry Nosek "Solitaire Sorcery" / Robert Caudill "Magical Printing Press" / Percy Abbott "Dante As I knew Him" (VM7).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 32 pages. Illustrated. Tricks of East Indian Magicians / Clarke C Crandall "Jumbo Snake In Basket Routine" / Sid Lorraine;s Chatter / George Coon "Magic On Chicago's Rialto" / L E Roba Collins "Magic Outdoors" / George L Boston "Magically Speaking" (VM7).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 32 pages. Illustrated. Tricks of East Indian Magicians / Clarke C Crandall "Jumbo Snake In Basket Routine" / Sid Lorraine;s Chatter / George Coon "Magic On Chicago's Rialto" / L E Roba Collins "Magic Outdoors" / George L Boston "Magically Speaking" (VM7).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 32 pages. Illustrated. Featuring - Mariano Palhinha "Music Hath Charms" / Anthony Dunn "More Bang Gone Ideas" / Arthur J Andrews "Nu-Idea 20th Century Silks" / El Ray "Out Of The Smoke" / The Amazing Dr Maurice "A Sight Gag With Napkins" / Henry Durkin "The Mental Card" / Tricks of East Indoan Magicians (VM7).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 32 pages. Illustrated. Featuring - Aldini "Hi-Fi Coke" / Bert Douglas "The Dyitician" / Henry Durkin "De Luxe Card Vanish" / George Johnstone "Egg And Confetti Exchange" / Murray A Sumner "A New Magnetized Matchbox" / Lesta "A Series Of Mistakes" / Clettis V Musson "The Wizard Club Show" /Sylvia Smith "Chicago Magigals" / Sid Lorraine's Chatter (VM7).

Sid Lorraine and Howard Melson (illustrator). Green boards with gilt lettering, spine darkened, corners rubbed. End-papers foxed and front end-paper carries the seller's gold coloured foil sticker and the owner's name. Same sticker on title page over publisher's name. Pages slightly tanned but clean with text and diagrams all clear.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 3rd Edition. Green cloth. Illustrated. 498 pages. A very good clean copy. No dust jacket. Previous owners name and place.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good to Very Good. No Jacket. Lorraine, Sid & Melson, Howard (illustrator). 400 pages. Front endpapers somewhat discolored. Inscription on front free endpaper. A few notations on rear paste-down endpaper. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Sid Lorraine Howard Melson (illustrator). 1st Edition. First edition. No date stated. A very good copy with bright gold cover titles but a darkened spine. An owner name on inside front cover. See my photos of the book you will receive, not stock photos. All books are wrapped in bubble wrap and shipped in a cardboard box. USPS tracking provided. #128.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good +. No Jacket. Sid Lorraine and Howard Melson (illustrator). no date.

Publisher's original colour illustrated flat backed card wrap covers (soft back). 8vo. 8½'' x 5½''. Contains 400 pp with monochrome illustrations throughout. In Very Good condition, no dust wrapper as issued. Member of the P.B.F.A. MAGIC & CONJURING.

Hb. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: None. Sid Lorraine and Melson, Howard (illustrator). Signed by Publisher Percy Abbott 1941 on title page. No date, presumed First Edition. Green cloth on boards, gilt titles and moderate dusting of soiling and rubbing. Spine: head & foot with thin light wear; an ever so slight vertical convex rise down spine. Boards fore corners with small bumping & light rubbing. Edges: moderate foxing and soiling. Eps: sprinkling of foxing and light age soiling. Clean content. Illustrated drawings Binding is VG albeit feels a touch loose. 498p. Signed.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. 54 Issues of this important monthly magazine by and for magicians: January thru December for 1945, 1947, 1948, and 1951; July thru December for 1946. Each issue has 28 pages staple-bound in illustrated stiff paper covers, and includes articles by Sid Lorraine, Percy Abbott, Eddie Joseph, Harry Louine, and many other magicians. There are also pages of ads for effects sold by Abbott's. Virtually all issues are in very good condition: clean bright, tight, and free of creases, with light to moderate toning of pages. A few issues have a tiny tear or chip on one edge of covers. Note: we have hundreds of issues of other magic magazines. Please inquire. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Magazine.

Saddle-stitched. First Edition. Octavo, various pages counts, 1936-1941., 6 volumes Quarto, various page counts, 1942-1957, 16 volumes. The octavo issues are Very Good minus, all have age toning to the spine and pages with some light soiling of the covers and all are tightly stapled to the covers. The Quarto issues are Good plus, as the paper they were printed on was a low quality. Issues have age toning, brittleness in some of the issues, an occasional one has fold/bends. This is a near complete run only missing issues April 1945, January-February 1946 and June 1954 There are duplicates of March-December 1946, January, February, April-December 1947 and February 1952. Shelved Room B. 1401650. Special Collections.