Quality Magic by Okito (7 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Reprint. Very good or better. No markings. Unread appearance. Reprint of original 1921 edition with a new preface by Dr. John Henry Grossman and a new index. Features several of the author's original routines including the Gobi Bowl and the Siamese Cylinders (now known as the Kuma Tubes.).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Quality Magic - by Okito (the pseudonym of Tobias Bamberg) Rare first edition, first printing from 1921 (with interesting advertising to rear pages) Book Condition: Very Good (remains tight and clean throughtout, price has been coloured over on front cover and slight stain to rear, but overwise clean and bright example of this rare magic book) see images.…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. A rare first edition by Okito, the pseudonym of Tobias Bamberg, the fifth member of the Bamberg Magical Dynasty. Bound in the publisher's illustrated paper covered boards; the spine ends a little bumped, light fading towards the spine, the edges bumped and rubbed, a few light surface scratches to the boards. Advertisements to the pastedowns. Illustrated with monochrome diagrams throughout and two half-tone plates including a portrait of the author. An uncommon 1920s work on sleight of hand magic.…

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Delicately bound in pale blue pictorial boards. Spine shows wear but is intact. Boards show some wear and use including dirt soiling and edge wear. Some natural darkening and offsetting to paper. Features several of the author's original routines including the Gobi Bowl and the Siamese Cylinders (now known as the Kuma Tubes.).…

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1st edition? 8vo. 98 + (2)pp. Bw photo portrait frontis + 1 other plate + numerous bw diagrams. Publisher's blue/green paper covered pictorial boards, blue & bamboo shaped lettering + Chinese man releasing flying duck with vertical white lines behind + " 5/6 NET " in circle on front, white spine with blue lettering. Adverts as eps. Ink signature, army rank and date " 1/22/44 " on title page. Covers : 2cm split bottom edges of spine, rubs corners, four 1cm slight stains ( coffee? ) rear top corner, rear slight surface marks & rubs. Contents : slight browning to some pages else clean, tight & unfoxed. Nice copy. ***. VG. …

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Signed and inscribed by author to actor/director/screenwriter Peter Godfrey: "To Peter Godfrey, Esq. In remembrance of Okito Nov. 1951". Original white and blue pictorial boards (some rubbing to boards; some fading and darkening to covers; some browning to endpapers and text edges). Books signed by the pioneering deaf magician Theodore Bamberg (1875-1963), sixth in the Bamberg dynasty, who performed as Okito, are very rare. This extremely scarce title, Okito's first, was inscribed the year before the publication of "Okito on Magic". Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. b/w Illustrations (illustrator). Signed by Author(s). Book.…

Condition: good. Signed by Okito. Blue and white pictorial boards. Some scuffing. Half-inch area at top of spine chipped.