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HARBIN, Robert (Ned Williams, 1908 – 78). The Magic of Robert Harbin. London: Author, 1970. First and only edition. Pebbled green cloth decorated in gilt, with Zig-Zag Girl design to front board. Color frontispiece, illustrated with line drawings by the author. Tall 4to. With the original shipping box. Near fine with only trifling wear to page edges. UNNUMBERED REVIEW COPY, WARMLY INSCRIBED AND SIGNED by Harbin and his wife Dolly to Harbin’s early performing partner Fred Barlow, with whom Harbin worked in an act titled “Fred and Ned.” Sold together with a photograph of the duo in their early days (a later printing).