Linking Ring, Signed (3 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st edition thus. 12mo (2) + 85 + (1)pp including Publisher's book details at front & rear. Numerous bw illustrations in text. Publisher's grey marble paper covered boards, black lettering on front & spine, heavy vertical black line on front. Original white eps. Attractive "Will Goldston " 2cm round bookseller's ticket inside front cover. Faint4 line pencil inscription fep ( should erase ). Covers : rub top of spine, very slight rub bottom, slight browning patch front/rear top edge. Contents: faint browning to eps else very clean, & tight & unfoxed. Clean tight copy. VG. WE SPECIALISE IN MATHEMATICS, PUZZLES & CONUNDRUMS. PLEASE VISIT OUR WEBSITE. Signed by Author(s).

Paperback. Condition: Fine. First Edition. Wraps. Dimensions: 300mm H x 210mm. pp. 62, including a b/w photograph of Roy Field,with a short biographical note. Bookplate attached to the inside of the front cover:'From My Magic Library - Christopher Brinson.' Loosely inserted is a letter dated 14 August 2011 from the author to "Dear Christopher." Presenting the book and thanking him for research notes which were included in the text. Cover illustration from a design by Ali Bongo for the cover of the Budget 2002. Fine. Signedes.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Hardback. Dust Jacket. 8vo. pp. 85. Illustrations. One page of advertisements at front and back. Original publisher's grey patterned boards lettered black on spine and upper cover. White illustrated dust jacket lettered pink on spine and covers. Presentation copy on front pastedown endpaper: 'To my tried and trusted friend John Clare. A man whom one considers it an honour to take into the bosom of one's home and family. W. Coventry. Christmas 1935.' 'Purchased at the Order of the Magi' handwritten in block capitals on front free endpaper. From the Magic Library of Christopher Brinson with his bookplate and the book label of Clifford Hough, Magic Entertainer both pastedown on front free endpaper. The tricks described include 'The Masonic Apron' which was specially devised for use as entertainment at masonic events. The Order of the Magi was founded in Manchester in 1909. It was the third Magic Society to be formed in England and is now one of the largest in the country. Christopher Brinson (1947 Ğ 2017), researcher, historian and magic collector was the author of 'Owen Clark a Genius Forgotten'. Bert Douglas (1897 Ğ 1974), born Douglas Robert Smith in Scotland was a prolific author and inventor of magic, living most of his life in Canada where he became good friends with the illustrator Sid Lorraine (1905 Ğ 1989), who was born Sidney Richard Johnson and then emigrated to Canada from England. He was a commercial artist and amateur magician who became the official artist of the International Brotherhood of Magicians in 1925. 'The Linking Ring' was their monthly journal of magic. Lower edge of boards darkened, dust jacket spine faded and covers well used. Very good in slightly used dust jacket.