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Soft Cover. Condition: Good. Wraps have light edgewear, tiny bump on front. Pages are clean with no markings in text Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. Reprint Edition. Good with toning to pale green front cover, particularly along spine. No prior owner markings. Lower corner bend to last few pages and rear cover. Reprint Edition. 58 page pamphlet, illustrated with drawings. Teaches the three shell game with walnut shells and a "pea" for entertainment purposes. Originally published by Kanter's Magic Shop in 1937. Bill Hanna (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. "Fifteenth Printing" stated. This is a modern, 1999 reprint of a book originally copyright 1927. Pages remain a lovely white, but we downgrade from "fine" to "very good" because previous owner marked four places in the text with large paper clips, which have left indentations to tops of pp. 73, 115, 190 and 278. Coin tricks, Ball tricks, Mental card mysteries, Handkerchief tricks. Sl; eight-of-hand, legerdemain, prestidigitation, how-to. 410 pp.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 2nd Edition. Vol. 2 only. Revised 2nd Edition, 3rd Printing. Hardbound, no dust jacket. Previous owner's name in ink on front free end page, otherwise very good. Tarbell, Harlan (illustrator).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. The book has some surface wear. The cover has a small tear and an inch long crease on the front top edge.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. Hardcover. No DJ. Text unmarked. Covers show edge wear with rubbing and bumped corners. Rear hinge cracked, but binding still intact.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day.

AUDIO CD. Condition: Good. 4 AUDIO CDs withdrawn from the library published by Blackstone Audio in the clamshell case. Library sticker and marking to the case and the CDs. Some shelf wear to the box. The AUDIO CDs are in individual slots, protected and clear sounding. Enjoy this AUDIO CD performance.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 2nd Edition. Vol. 3 only. Revised 2nd Edition, 3rd Printing. Hardbound, no dust jacket. Previous owner's name in ink on front free end page, otherwise very good. Tarbell, Harlan (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Original Wraps. Condition: Good +. No Jacket. (1951), 56pp, illus., rubbing & soiling to cover, staples are rusted, slight foxing throughout, 2 pgs w/ small piece (1/2" x 1/4") missing from center edge, 1st affects last paragraph of the book, second affect 1st pg of ads, contents unmarked. Edw. E. Mishell (illustrator). …

Condition: New.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Very Good, unmarked, 59-page, staple-bound paperback with light soiling to beige wraps, slight sunning to wraps along spine, and minor creasing to corner tips of wraps.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Approx. 5" wide by 8". ; 87 pages.

Paperback. Condition: Poor. top of pages near spine has water stains and some torn pages, covers have minor wear, corners lightly bumped, stapled binding tight, no writing, 56 pages, how to perform stage magic using flash papers, cards, coins, silks and other props, bw illustrations Size: 6 x 9.

Paperback. Condition: Fine. Reprint. This is a thirty two page stapled reprint booklet.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First edition; stated first printing. Original blue cloth, 6x9 inches, illustrated with black and white drawings, 122 pp + ads. Very good, no dustjacket. Corners bumped, rubbed along edges, spine moderately faded, approximately 1x4 inch water (? ) stain on rear board, a few drop marks, old bookseller's price (in pencil) , otherwise tight, clean, paper crisp, unmarked and apparently never read. Stage magic; children's; entertainment.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Hardcover. No DJ. Text contains light underlining/marking. Covers show shelving wear with rubbing. Binding is tight, hinges strong. Spine creased. Previous owner's name/inscription on free end paper.; 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed! Ships same or next business day.

Softcover. Condition: Good. Not marked; 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. 2nd Edition. Good with normal age-toning to covers No markings except erased pencil price. 25 pages.

Pictorial Stiff Paper Wrappers. Condition: Good. Revised Edition. Reprints the four booklets originally issued by the author between 1937 and 1944 in one 52 page pamphelt. Small skinned spot and tear on front cover, else good. Paper age-darkening as expected but not brittle.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Revised Edition. Stiff pink paper covers. Later printing, circa mid-1960s to mid 70s. Very good with rubber stamped dealer address on title page and a few page with minor mis-trims of page edges. No markings. 51 page booklet incorporating material from two previous small booklets and adding additional material. NOTE: Sold for historical purposes only. Flash paper is a dangerous substance and its use is discouraged. Ed Mishell (illustrator).…

Stapled - Saddle Stapled. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 58 pages. Size: 5 x 8.5 Inches. Hanna, Bill (illustrator).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Revised Edition. No dust jacket. 408pp. Harlan Tarbell (illustrator).

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. 282 pp., viii. Stated: "First published 2008 by Cornell University Press"; this copy: "First printing, Cornell paperbacks, 2008". Contents: Introduction by Editors, "Privatizing China: Powers of the Self, Socialism from Afar"; Part I: Powers of Property: Emerging Class Practices; Accumulating Land and Money; Negotiating Neoliberal Values; Part II: Powers of the Self: Taking Care of One's Health; Managing the Professional Self; Search for the Self in New Publics. Notes, pp. 237-270; Contributors, pp. 271-273; Index, pp. 275-282. Shiny wraps with blue, green, yellow-green, and white of a tall building, seen in perspective from ground up. Small bump (1/8" on diagonal) to lower right front cover corner with diminishing echo through about p. 43 (NO textimpacted); Some ostensible fading to the cover (looks nearly like it is the design), with ostensible outline of a book placed on cover or adjacent to the cover on shelf, so is faded on outline of the smaller, tilted book: describes much worse than it is, but there you have it, else Fine: Tight binding (NO cracks); NO remainder marks; NO previous owner names. Clean text. Solid copy.…

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Staple bound pamphlet appears unread, tight page block with very slight tanning to edges, square corners, published February 1964. No dustjacket, no flaws. Book shipped well packed in a box and USPS tracking number supplied upon shipment.

Hardcover. Condition: VG Very Good. No Dust Jacket. Revised Edition. Octavo, [23cm/9.25inches], full gilt-embossed crepuscular blue cloth sans dust jacket, pp. xvi, 407. Illustrated with pen & ink Sketches &tc. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. . Publishers T. Grant Cooke and Walter A. Jordan developed an interest in producing a correspondence course in magic in the mid-1920s. A few months before his death, Harry Houdini was approached to author the course; Houdini declined but recommended Tarbell. Cook and Jordan hired Tarbell and Walter Baker, another Chicago-area magician, to work on the project, but Baker dropped out of the project in its early stages to concentrate on his performances. The publishers allotted Tarbell $50,000 for the course, which he finished in 1928, producing 60 correspondence lessons with at least 3,100 illustrations. Tarbell later discussed the philosophy behind his course: "There is a big difference between a magician and a man who does tricks.Fundamentally, the making of a magician is no different than the making of other professional people. One must be trained in the mechanics, the alternate methods and be skilled in the presentation in order to meet any conditions which may arise." Unlike other magic courses which placed a greater emphasis on self-working illusions, Tarbell began with fundamental drills and practice sessions involving body position, movement, and sleight-of-hand techniques which were to be incorporated into actual tricks in future lessons. After selling 10,000 complete courses, Cooke and Jordan discontinued marketing the Tarbell Course in Magic in 1931, blaming the Great Depression for slumping sales. In 1941, however, magician Louis Tannen purchased the rights to the course, working with Tarbell and Ralph W. Read (of Read and Covert) to convert the correspondence lessons into book form.…

Hardcover. Condition: VG Very Good. No Dust Jacket. Revised Edition. Octavo, [23cm/9.25inches], full gilt-embossed green cloth sans dust jacket, pp. xix, 416. Illustrated with pen & ink Sketches &tc. Please feel free to inquire as to particulars and/or additional photographs. . Publishers T. Grant Cooke and Walter A. Jordan developed an interest in producing a correspondence course in magic in the mid-1920s. A few months before his death, Harry Houdini was approached to author the course; Houdini declined but recommended Tarbell. Cook and Jordan hired Tarbell and Walter Baker, another Chicago-area magician, to work on the project, but Baker dropped out of the project in its early stages to concentrate on his performances. The publishers allotted Tarbell $50,000 for the course, which he finished in 1928, producing 60 correspondence lessons with at least 3,100 illustrations. Tarbell later discussed the philosophy behind his course: "There is a big difference between a magician and a man who does tricks.Fundamentally, the making of a magician is no different than the making of other professional people. One must be trained in the mechanics, the alternate methods and be skilled in the presentation in order to meet any conditions which may arise." Unlike other magic courses which placed a greater emphasis on self-working illusions, Tarbell began with fundamental drills and practice sessions involving body position, movement, and sleight-of-hand techniques which were to be incorporated into actual tricks in future lessons. After selling 10,000 complete courses, Cooke and Jordan discontinued marketing the Tarbell Course in Magic in 1931, blaming the Great Depression for slumping sales. In 1941, however, magician Louis Tannen purchased the rights to the course, working with Tarbell and Ralph W. Read (of Read and Covert) to convert the correspondence lessons into book form.…

A Hard Back. Condition: Good/maybe VG. Church Closed.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Prior owner ink name and date and rubber-stamped rabbit image on front flyleaf. No other markings. Original blue cloth. No jacket.