Magic by Yam (14 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very Good hardcover in teal boards. Overall a bright and attractive copy. No markings to the text. Illustrated. Light aging to the covers and end pages. 137 pp.

Stapled - Side Stapled. Condition: Very Good to Fine. No Jacket. 136 pages. Photographic illustratrations by the author Ho Yam, Size: 6 x 9 Inches.

ed. paperback about very good condition with a bit of wear- there is a small rubber stamped name on the front end page - shipping via USPS.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Ho Yam (illustrator). 1st Edition. Signed & inscribed by William Mayoh, "Ho-Yam" to the previous owner on the front free end page. Hardbound, no dust jacket. Musty odor. Minor wear to board edges, otherwise very good. Signed by Author(s).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Apparent first printing. 136 pp., many photos, 8vo, color covers. Slight waviness to lower section of cover and first few pages (not dampstained), otherwise clean, tight copy with no owner's name. VG.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Solid copy with no inscriptions. Boards and end pages are a little dulled with age,but text and photos are bright and clean. Colour photo of Ho Yam on inside board, nice ex-libris sticke of Edward Pearce on frint end paper.

Condition: Good. Light blue cloth with black stamping on front cover and spine. May or may not have dust jacket. Illustrated, 137 pages. Chips to jacket, else in good condition.

Hb. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: None. Ho Yam, Photographic Illustrations (illustrator). First Edition. Blue cloth on boards with black titles. Very light dusting of just a little soiling. Light rubbing to head & foot of spine and to boards fore corners. Small bumpingn to to head of front & rear boards fore corners. Edges: light soiling and few only foxings. Eps: ffep with full page colour page of Ho Yam , in attire, tipped in with old cellotaped to margins; mild soiling and foxing to eps. Ffep: inscribed and same again on Refp: inscribed upside down. Clean glossy contents. B/w illustrations. Binding is As New. 137p.

Hardback. Ho Yam (William Mayoh) (illustrator). First. This hardback edition of Magic A Collection of Practical Effects all of which have been tried and tested is looking for a new home Written by William Mayoh who went by the stage name and persona of Ho Yam is not only an instructive book of magic but a primary source for American racial attitudes and orientalism in the early 20th century This blue clothbound book has black ink lettering to the cover and spine and contains 137 pages of text peppered with illustrated photographs by the author himself This book is in good condition despite its age it ha some small scuffs some fading and some foxing This book would make for a lovely gift for any American social historian or for any budding magic enthusiastnbsp. book.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good, tight, clean copy with no markings. Lacking dust jacket. Some natural age-discoloration of endsheets, otherwise an exceptionally nice copy. Uncommon hardcover edition. Oriental style stage magic. Illustrated with b&w photos.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Good with bookplate of magician RAY MUSE detached but laid in. Offsetting where bookplate was originally affixed on flyleaf. Heavily tattered and torn in several pieces dust jacket included, but poor condition. Original light blue cloth hardcover edition, which preceded the Tannen softbound reprint by many years. Oriental style stage magic. Illustrated with b&w photos.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. With the ink ownership signature of Dick Buffum (Richard Buffum), newspaperman and magician and publisher (Abracadabra Press.) Otherwise very good, tight,copy with no other markings. Has a few dirt smudges. Some natural age-discoloration of endsheets. In the scarce dust jacket which shows some foxing but has NO chips and only a few tiny edge tears. Uncommon thus. Oriental style stage magic. Illustrated with b&w photos.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. AS PICTURED : FIVE IMAGES; First Edition, First Printing. An uncommonly tidy copy of this sought-after volume, profusely illustrated with the author's attractive and carefully composed b/w photographs. No markings or inscriptions. Laid in, by a former owner, a single leaf from a book, showing ' Karachi and his son, Kyder performing the Indian Rope Trick' (as pictured, with some soiling). In bright, clean dustwrapper with a little wear top and tail of spine only. Now protected with clear, removable sleeve. (VG+ / VG) SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Free P&P in UK. NON-UK CUSTOMERS QUOTED SHIPPING PRIOR TO PURCHASING. (25% proceeds to the Motor Neurone Disease association).

HARDBACK BLUE. Condition: GOOD. JACKET: GOOD. 1ST ED. General wear, great pictorial image on DJ, soiling on rear DJ cover, chipped and torn DJ spine and edges, soiling on edge, contains BW photographs, DATE PUBLISHED: 1949 EDITION: 1ST ED 136.