Set Reminder2023-08-23 12:00:002023-08-23 12:00:00America/New_YorkBidsquareBidsquare : Vintage & Modern Magic https://www.bidsquare.com/auctions/potter-potter/vintage-modern-magic-21923 Highlights of our August sale included a rare one-sheet poster advertising Servais LeRoy, a strong offering of Houdiniana, including inscribed and signed books, an assortment of magic books, and rare ephemera.
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FISCHER, Ottokar. Das Wunderbuch Der Zauberkunst [Illustrated Magic]. Stuttgart: Friedrich Undreas Berthes, (1929). FIRST EDITION. Blue cloth stamped in orange with elaborate full-color lithograph laid down on front board, as issued, with the uncommonly encountered color dust jacket. Color frontispiece depicts Adelaide and Leon Herrmann. Illustrated with photographs. 4to. Ownership stamp of Johnny Platt to the half-title. With a TLS SIGNED by the author laid in. Regarded by many as one of the best-designed magic books of its era.