Kio Emil (2 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Gut. 1. Auflage. Hardback with jacket, 109 pages in Russian language, illustr., Frontispiece, numerous photoes (illusionists Harry Houdini, Dante (Harry August Jansen), and others), drawings; few spots and tears to jacket, corners bumped, edges rubbed, clean pages, no inscriptions, binding tight, in stock, sofort lieferbar.

Condition: Good. First Edition. First edition; 9 x 6 3/4; pp. [6], 5-107, [5]; pictorial boards, rebacked with silk tape; illustrated with numerous photographs, incuding frontis, plates, and drawings; small rubbed spots to corners and two small nicks to top edge of front board; small ink spot to bottom edge of title page; front hinge slightly starting at the top; in good to very good condition.Emil Feodorovich Hirschfeld-Renard (1894 - 1965), better known under his stage name Emil Kio, was Russsia's most famous illusionist of the 20th century, as well as a renowned circus performer and designer of circus equipment. His father and his sons were also well-known magicians and his brother was journalist and anarchist Felix Hirschfeld. In his current book Kio wrote about the creative and complex work of illusionists, the history of the circus, and the art of the magic tricks. He also paid tribute to other world-famous names of magic, including Harry Houdini, Dante (Harry August Jansen), and others.