Set Reminder2023-02-25 12:00:002023-02-25 12:00:00America/New_YorkBidsquareBidsquare : The Ricky Jay Collection https://www.bidsquare.com/auctions/potter-potter/the-ricky-jay-collection-21935 This was Potter & Potter's first sale from the singular, eclectic collection of Ricky Jay, the lauded actor, celebrated sleight-of-hand magician, and noted author, who curated his own extensive collection of magic, circus, and showbiz ephemera.
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[DEAN, Henry] The Whole Art of Legerdemain; or Hocus Pocus Laid Open and Explained. New York: Published by N.C. Nafis. Philadelphia: by John B. Perry, (1833). Turquoise paper-covered pictorial boards, with Nafis advertisement to rear, John Bull to front. Wood-engraved folding frontispiece (splitting at fold) on blue paper showing a conjurer nailing a card to a wall with a pistol shot. [1 ? 3], 4 ? 71, verso blank.12mo. Scattered light or mild foxing, boards rubbed, chipping to paper and splitting at spine; good. Folding paper box. See Toole Stott 724.