Steps Mentalism (34 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. This is a stapled 38 page booklet, pale gray wraps. book 4.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. This is a stapled 31 page booklet, pale gray wraps. book 6.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. This is a stapled 29 page booklet, blue-gray wraps. Book 2.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. This is a stapled 33 page booklet, blue wraps. book 7.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. This is a stapled 23 page booklet, pale gray wraps. book 11.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. hardcover, octavo, third printing, 1968, 432 pages , numerous drawings and illustrations, b&w photos, index, near fine condition in a very good+ dust jacket, touch of edgewear to jacket, clean copy, no markings, a how to book on mentalism and magic.

Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. May have underlining, highlighting, margin notes, remainder marks, inscriptions, book plates, tears, significant wear, and/or a missing dust jacket, box, or discs. Damaged item.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Fifteenth Printing.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Corinda's Magic Studio, 1959. RARE slim vintage pamphlet. 20pp (pp367-386 in the series). Very good condition copy of a rare Mentalist pamphlet. book.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Corinda's Magic Studio, 1959. RARE slim vintage pamphlet. 44pp (pp237-270 in the series). Sticker mark to cover, slight marking to back cover. Good condition copy of a rare Mentalist pamphlet. book.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. Corinda's Magic Studio, 1959. RARE slim vintage pamphlet. 31pp (pp201-231 in the series). Excellent condition copy of a rare Mentalist pamphlet. book.

Soft cover. Condition: Fair. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 1st Edition. The tenth in a series of Thirteen booklets on Mentalism, this copy is bound in a cream- pink illustrated stapled card cover, which shows general wear from use and is slightly grubby, but is intact. Previously owned by Stanton Carlisle, the famous mentalist and friend of Corinda, and whose signature appears on title page. Pages are free from notations and markings. Pages are paginated to form complete set of 13 volumes, here 307-332. A must have for budding mentalists.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: very good. Ninth printing. Octavo. Hardcover with black and white illustrated dust jacket. 426 pages. Illustrated in black and white. First copyrighted 1968.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 6th printing. Bound in black cloth with gilt lettering on cover and spine. Small area of soiling on the back free endpaper (see image). Spine and boards are straight and binding is strong. Pages and text block edges are clean and unmarked. Condition of book is VG+. The dust jacket is worn (see image) but has no chips or tears. Images shown are of actual item. Free shipping within the US.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. Second Printing. Front endpaper has been torn out. Dust jacket spine is darkened and has a few small moisture spots; several nicks, small tears around edges of dust jacket. Foxing to page edges.

Encuadernación de tapa dura. Condition: Bien. The author Tony Corinda mysteriously appeared on the magical scene but a few years ago. Nobody has quite discovered where he came from but in no time, everybody knew he was here; 424 pag. aprox.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 6th Printing. Clean, tight copy in mylar-protected dust jacket. 424pp. Book.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Louis Tannen. New York City. 1968. 424 pages. First US hardcover edition; third printing; stated. Black cloth with gold stamping on spine. Base of spine stamped with a gold rabbit in a hat holding a magic wand. Just below that it states Louis Tannen. Black cloth is bright and clean. Corners are sharp. Binding and hinges are sound. Pages are tight and lay flat. This book looks as if it has never been opened. Original DJ with $15.00 price intact on flap. The base of DJ spine replaced the single rabbit insignia as seen in the first two US printings with a new 3-rabbit profile. DJ is bright and clean with minor handling and light shelf-rubbing at DJ crown. The quintessential guide book for mentalists; in an early printing of the first U.S. hardcover edition. Fine/VG++.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Collected Edition. Very good with lightly bumped corners and a slight spine lean. Original black pebbled cloth, no markings, no bookplate. Lacking dust jacket. Printed on coated paper stock unlike the more common later Tannen and Robbins edition. This is the first collected printing, published by Corinda himself, of this best selling classic mentaliism book which collects the series on mental magic originally published in 13 separate booklets.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Louis Tannen, New York City. 1968. 424 pages. First American hardcover edition; first printing. Near fine. Green cloth stamped in gold. Lone Tannen rabbit in hat insignia with magic wand stamped on base of spine. Binding and hinges are strong and sound. Four sharp corners. Pages lay tight. Only the first two U.S. printings used green cloth, before changing to black, before reprint publishers purchased the publication rights. Book's lone flaw is light toning to endpapers. Unique illusionist bookplate on front endpaper. Loosely laid-in is a membership certificate for the international fan club for the most commercially successful illusionist and stage magician, David Copperfield. This book is considered the quintessential guide book for mentalists. Corinda details the workings of nearly every useful strategy and device to aid the mentalist. Some of these include Nail writers, predictions, card tricks, blindfold tricks, muscle reading, billets, publicity stunts, etc. The volume goes on to describe various techniques used by mentalists to achieve what appear to be psychic phenomena such as telepathy, precognition, extra-sensory perception, telekinesis and the ability to communicate with the dead as a medium. Mentalists such as Derren Brown, Larry Becker, Lee Earle, Richard Osterlind and Banachek have incorporated Corinda's Thirteen Steps to Mentalism into their own work. Uncommon first American edition, first printing. Rare.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Louis Tannen, New York City. 1968. 424 pages. First American hardcover edition; first printing. Green cloth stamped in gold. Tannen rabbit in hat insignia with magic wand stamped at base of spine. Binding and hinges are strong and sound. Four sharp corners. Pages lay tight. Scant faint foxing along bottom page edges. Previous owner's name neatly written on corner of FFEP. Scant, faint foxing to endpapers. Original, rare DJ with $10.00 printed price for The Complete Thirteen Steps on rear flap; blank otherwise. On base of DJ spine is the Tannen rabbit in a hat reading a book. Later-issue DJs would replace the lone rabbit in a hat reading a book with a three-rabbit profile. This too would change once the edition changed to reprint publishers, in later years; as would cloth color. Only the first two U.S. printings used green cloth, before changing to black. Original DJ is bright and attractive. Faint crease near front hinge with minimal, tiny minor chipping along bottom rear edge and spine heel. Considered the quintessential guide book for mentalists, Corinda details the workings of nearly every useful strategy and device to aid the mentalist. Some of these include Nail writers, predictions, card tricks, blindfold tricks, muscle reading, billets, publicity stunts, etc. The volume goes on to describe various techniques used by mentalists to achieve what appear to be psychic phenomena such as telepathy, precognition, extra-sensory perception, telekinesis and the ability to communicate with the dead as a medium. Mentalists such as Derren Brown, Larry Becker, Lee Earle, Richard Osterlind and Banachek have incorporated Corinda's Thirteen Steps to Mentalism into their own work. Uncommon first American edition, first printing, in original first state DJ. Rare.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Louis Tannen, New York City. 1968. 424 pages. First US hardcover edition; first printing. Green cloth with gold titles; Tannen rabbit in hat insignia with magic wand stamped on base of cloth spine. Binding and hinges are strong and sound. Pages lay tight and undisturbed in seemingly unread condition. Minimal toning to endpapers. Previous owner's name neatly written on FFEP. Tiny bruise to edge of front panel. Minimal soiling to green cloth. Original, rare DJ with $10.00 printed price for The Complete Thirteen Steps on rear flap; blank otherwise. On base of DJ spine is the Tannen rabbit in a hat reading a book. Later-issue DJs would replace the rabbit in a hat reading a book with a three-rabbit profile. This too would change once the edition changed with reprint publishers in later years; as would cloth color. Only the first two U.S. printings used green cloth, then it changed to black. As for the now-classic black and white DJ illustration, the images are sharp and attractive. DJ rear shows minimal soiling to front; and flaps. Rubbing along edges, small closed tear at rear shoulder and small scuff towards bottom near spine. Laid-in is a vintage 3x5 card with a handwritten note in pencil: Lou Tannen - 120 West 42nd St. NYC 205-0555 & Mecca Magic Studio 9 S. Harrison St. East Orange, NJ 483-4002. Considered 'the Mentalist Bible' by those in the trade. A first US hardcover edition; first printing in its original rare first issue DJ; with $10.00 price intact. Rare.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. sm 8 vo, 424 pp. Black boards with gold lettering and trademark 3 rabbits on spine. I found one margin 1/2 pen mark on page 100. Else, I believe interior to be completely unmarked.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. very good hardcover. some wear. Limited reprint 1996.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Hardcover with dust jacket, 424 pages : b/w illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm. Very good/fine, clean, crisp, unmarked, looks like an unread copy. 10th printing.

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. NEW copy still in publisher's shrinkwrap. 424pp., index, illustrations. Corinda has been acclaimed as inventor, writer and teacher of Mentalism--the art of mind-reading. This volume is considered to be the only real encyclopedia of mental magic. Includes all 13 steps: Step 1: Swami Gimmick; Step 2: Pencil, Lip, Sound, Touch and Muscle Reading; Step 3: Mnemonics and Mental Systems; Step 4: Predictions; Step 5: Blindfolds & X-Ray Eyes; Step 6: Billets; Step 7: Book Tests and Supplement; Step 8: Two Person Telepathy; Step 9: Mediumistic Stunts; Step 10: Card Tricks; Step 11: Question and Answer (Readings); Step 12: Publicity Stunts; Step 13: Patter and Presentation. Size: 8vo - 8" - 9" Tall.

Condition: very_good.

250x180, 519 pages, reliure toile sous jaquette, intérieur neuf.

Condition: good. Book shows wear from use but remains a usable copy. May include writing highlighting underlining library markings. LISTING USES STOCK PHOTOS AND COVER MAY VARY.Ships via USPS and typically arrives within 10-12 business days.

Condition: Very Good. Louis Tannen New York 1968 8vo. 424 pages. second printing. green cloth boards. text block crisp. handsome copy. VG+.