Magical Titbits by Professor Hoffmann (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. H.L. Schindler (illustrator). 1st Edition. Good with a few stains to pictorial cloth and some fading to cloth along spine and rounding to corners. Old English price in pencil on flyleaf, otherwise no markings and no bookplate. Leaf 107/108 and adjacent pages have some stains. Cloth color is a light reddish brown.

Octavo red cloth boards, gilt lettering to front and spine, white hand illustration to front, viii+221pp, VG+ (light scuffing to boards, light tanning and occasional light foxing to edges and contents, prev. bookseller's stamp to rear pastdown, occasional light soiling within).

Condition: Good. Red cloth with white and gilt stamping on front cover and spine. Portrait frontispiece, illustrated, 221 pages. Corners bumped a bit, spine slanted, else in good condition.

Hard Cover. Condition: Collectible- Good+. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket, as Issued. H.L. Shindler (illustrator). First Edition. viii, 221 pages. Decorated red cloth cover; gilt titling, with raised hand in white. Some illustrations. Part I includes various magic effects (The Rice and Water Trick, The Demon Digits, The Great Book Mystery, The Crystal Balls, etc.); Part II is devoted to the many ingenious inventions of Hoffmann's friend and performer Joseph Michael Hartz (1836-1903), whom he calls primarily an "apparatus" conjuror, but of the first order. Hartz was awarded many medal & diamond pins from royalty all over the world, such was his skill. His Devil of a Hat (a hat tick) is one of many described in the book. Cover is rubbed over all, especially to rear; rubbed to board at corners and 4 tiny spots rubbed on front. Spine is sunned. Front pastedown endpaper has 3 lines of handwriting and original bookseller sticker (reddish stain at bottom corner); ffep has previous owner's name (which has left ghost impression on half-title page underneath it. Half-title and rear free endpaper are quite toned. A small spot on each of rear endpapers. Just a few pages have slight stains; pgs. 212-213 have dark stain in gutter. Still a nice tight copy! Better than it sounds! Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Book.