Set Reminder2023-12-09 12:00:002023-12-09 12:00:00America/New_YorkBidsquareBidsquare : Select Secrets https://www.bidsquare.com/auctions/potter-potter/select-secrets-21918 From J.N. Maskelyne's toolbox to rare Houdiniana (posters, handcuffs, autographs), David Devant's passport to a magic trick that helped predict the outbreak of WWII, Robert Harbin's sketch for the Zig-Zag Girl and Al Delage's Sub Trunk, our December sale of magicana was a closely-curated offering of real rarities.
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DOWNS, T. Nelson (1867 – 1938). Modern Coin Manipulation. London: The T. Nelson Downs Magical Co., 1900. FIRST EDITION. Bright red cloth decorated in gilt, silver, and black. 8vo. FROM PROFESSOR HOFFMANN’S LIBRARY and bearing his engraved armorial “Louis Hoffmann” bookplate on the front pastedown, and INSCRIBED AND SIGNED by the author, “With Compliments / of Season / T. Nelson Downs.” Spine sunned, else very good to near fine. A lovely example of this classic work with important association.