Jack Vosburgh (12 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Date is an estimate. Reprint of the original 1941 edition. 22 pages. Card tricks by a noted contributor to JINX and PHOENIX magazines.

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. Stain to front of printed cover. 4 pages of text are severely browned. Fair and fragile. Six card tricks explained. Uncommon.

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. Staining and dust soil to cover, paper age-toned, some chipping to top corners. Upper corner of pages near margin have some mild water wrinkling. No markings. 22 pages. Card tricks by a noted contributor to JINX and PHOENIX magazines. Uncommon.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Some age darkening to paper and covers, and some wear along edges, otherwise good. No markings. 22 pages. Card tricks by a noted contributor to JINX and PHOENIX magazines. Uncommon.

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. AS IS. Fair only, with some light wrinkling to cover and pages due to moisture contact. No prior owner markings. Date is an estimate. 24 or so pages of tricks with wood matches using a gimmick that is no longer popularly made. You may have trouble making one for yourself.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Good with some fading to edges of orange cover. Cover is delicate. Usual age toning to paper. No markings except for rubber stamp of Kanter's magic shop on blank preliminary page. 22 pages. Card tricks by a noted contributor to JINX and PHOENIX magazines. Uncommon.

Stapled Wraps. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Assumed first edition. Very good in stapled wraps. Book shows some light edge-wear and a previous seller's stamp to title page. Text remains clean and crisp, binding is firm. A nice copy of this scarce title.

Original wraps. Condition: Very good. First Edition. 4 p quarto, folded into a yellow card cover.

Condition: Very Good. Pictorial wrappers, illustrated. Pen markings throughout the pages, mild toning, else in very good condition.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Unstated. Little Miracles by Vosburgh Jack Self Pub. Lecture Notes, 1944 Staple bound lecture notes in good condition. Text is clean and unmarked, binding tight all staples and pages in place nothing is loose, some tanning of pages due to age. Cover is clean. These notes deal with the Bashful Card trick and its variations. 4 pages. Book.

Condition: Very Good. Publisher's original wire stitched paper wrap covers (soft back). 12mo. 7'' x 4½''. Contains 12 pp. Slight age tanning to the paper, else in Very Good condition. Member of the P.B.F.A. MAGIC & CONJURING.

19 mimeographed pp., secured with split pin to top left. Tear to final page, amendments and markings throughout, a little dusty and age-toned. First edition. A Johnnie Ray Special. JOHNNIE RAY'S COPY, WITH HIS NAME TO TITLE PAGE AND HIS LINES UNDERLINED IN RED THROUGHOUT. Johnnie Ray [1927-1990] was the singing sensation of the early 1950s, taking the baton from Frank Sinatra and handing it to Elvis Presley. His unbuttoned style, the hair-tearing and the dropping to his knees, anticipated the stage shows of, among many others, James Brown and Little Richard, and his emotionally supercharged singing style opened the door for rock and roll itself. And yet if he's remembered at all today it's for the mention he gets in two later songs. In Billy Joel's late-20th century roll-call We Didn't Start The Fire Ray is the fourth person to be lname-checked, and in Dexy's Midnight Runners' Come On Eileen a couplet is devoted to him: 'Poor old Johnnie Ray sounded sad upon the radio / He moved a million hearts in Mono.' Two convictions for homosexual soliciting bookended his career, which was over by 1959; he was Judy Garland's best man at her wedding ten years later; he died of cirrhosis of the liver at the age of 53. And he was almost deaf -- the device you can see in most of his performances on YouTube isn't a studio earpiece, it's a hearing aid. If you can't place him, may we recommend YouTube. He's phenomenal. Ray was in town to film an edition of Sunday Night At The London Palladium, and recorded this show during his visit. This episode of Show Band Show also featured Alfred Marks, Bert Weedon, and was compered by Rikki Fulton. It was pre-recorded on 2 May 1955 for transmission later the same day, and as well as appearing in a short sketch at the end of the show, Johnnie Ray sang Alexander's Ragtime Band, As Time Goes By, Flip Flop And Fly and If You Believe. His script is neatly marked up, with his name written in red and underlined twice on the title page, and his musical numbers are ticked in the running order. Very rare, redolent of its time, and absolutely beautiful.