Secrets Magic by David, First Edition (7 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. David Britland (illustrator). 1st Edition. Good with a little foxing to page edges. In good dust jacket with some age related toning. No jacket chips or tears. No prior owner markings or bookplate.

Soft cover. Condition: As New. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Published In 2017 : 1st. Edition : Blink Publishing : Large Format : This Copy Is In Lovely Condition : Just Faint Face Rubbing & Wear To The Covers : ( Mainly The Back Cover ) : Otherwise , As New Throughout : Still Reasonably Crisp & Tight , With No Inscriptions : Good Solid Binding With Bright Clear Text , Illustrations & Photographs : Overall , A Very Nice Book :

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. 288pp, index, appendix, diagrams, bw photos. Red cloth, no jacket. Slight fading to spine, some foxing to prelims, foxing to page edges. Nice vintage book on conjuring. Size: 8vo.

Hb. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. Maroon cloth on boards with gilt titles and blindstamped border trim; light dusting of soiling and small circle stain to front. Faint old sunning to spine and to front top margin. Spine: thin bumping to head & foot. Small bumping to boards fore corners. Edges: foxing and dusting of age soiling. Frontis: b/w photograph of David Levant. Few only pages with few only foxing to margins. B/w illustrations and line drawings. Binding is VG. 283p plus Index and adverts for Autobiography & Biographys. Dj: moderate soiling, rubbing and heavy with scratches. Top-edge with creasing wear, tears, chips and 8 x 2 cm sections missing. Bottom edge with wear, small open tears and chips.

Condition: Très bon état. Paris, Payot, 1949. In-8 broché, couverture illustrée, 266 pp., 4 planches de photos hors texte, 61 gravures. Très bon état. Edition originale. Avec la collaboration de Horace Goldin, Oswald Williams, Cecil Lyle, Herbert J. Collings, Will Blyth, et autres prestidigitateurs connus. Préface de Rémi Ceillier. David Devant est un des plus grands illusionnistes anglais de la fin du XIXe siècle, il serait même « le plus grand magicien d'Angleterre, voire le plus grand magicien du XXe siècle » d'après Jim Steinmeyer, historien de la magie. Très bon exemplaire, malgré quelques infimes taches sur la couverture.

Hardcover. First edition. 288 pp. + publisher's 32-page catalog at rear; frontispiece and 14 full-page plates from photographsm many illustrations in the text; octavo, maroon cloth with gilt spine title. English stage magician David Devant (1868-1941) was, according to Milbourne Christopher in his Panorama of Magic "the master performer of his time." Covers moderately faded, some foxing to text, else very good.

First edition hard back binding in publisher's original black, red, silver and white illustrated paper covered boards. 4to. 11½'' x 8¾''. Full printer's code 6 5 4 3 2 1. Contains 151 pp with monochrome illustrations throughout. Spine ends just pushed in, else in Fine condition, no dust wrapper as issued. Member of the P.B.F.A. MAGIC & CONJURING.