Set Reminder2024-06-08 12:00:002024-06-08 12:00:00America/New_YorkBidsquareBidsquare : Magicana: Featuring the Collection of Peter Hackhofer https://www.bidsquare.com/auctions/potter-potter/magicana-featuring-the-collection-of-peter-hackhofer-21905 This sale will highlight selected material from the collection of the late Peter Hackhofer. Built up over several decades as a dealer and seeker of the unusual, his holdings included an extensive library, unusual stone lithographs from the great illusion shows of yesteryear, and art of all types with a magic theme.
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DEARN, Edwin A. (1892 - 1980). Archive of Edwin Dearn Ephemera. 25 pieces, including several photographs, stationery, and an event program. Most SIGNED and/or INSCRIBED by Dearn, several to ?Jimmy? (James B. Findlay?1904 - 1973). On a photograph of himself seated and smoking a pipe, he writes ?To/My Friend Jimmy from Edwin Dearn 6/1/1971? (recto); ?Dreaming my way down ?Memory Lane? In all the Luxury of calm retirement ~ ?Oh Memories That Bless & Burn?! Aye Sincerely, Edwin ?The Hermit of Larchwood? (verso). Sizes vary, largest approx. 8? x 10?. Condition commensurate with age. Sold with: VERNON, Dai (David Frederick Wingfield Verner?1894???1992), and Lewis Ganson, ed. (1913 ? 1980). Malini and His Magic. London: Harry Stanley, (c. 1959). SIGNED AND INSCRIBED on front flyleaf by Ganson. Dearn contributed the text for this volume?s Chapter Nine. 8vo. Illustrated. Publisher?s full red cloth, front board and spine gilt stamped, with original pictorial dust jacket. Good condition. A fascinating archive.