Set Reminder2019-11-19 22:30:002019-11-19 22:30:00America/New_YorkBidsquareBidsquare : Winter Magic Auction https://www.bidsquare.com/auctions/potter-potter/winter-magic-auction-21990 Featuring selections from the collection of Giovanni Pasqua - aka Roxy - our winter magic sale features rare conjuring books from the sixteenth century to the present day.
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Thurston, Howard. Six-Page Thurston Publicity Manuscript, with Signed Cover Letter. 1926/[n.d.]. Seven pages altogether, in manuscript, on leaves of Chicago Beach Hotel stationery, including a letter to John [Mulholland?], signed ?Howard,? enclosing the following six pages of manuscript publicity copy. The manuscript heralds Thurston?s 21st annual tour, which will feature the East Indian rope trick, and describes in detail his work and travel among mystics and yogis in India who taught him the secret to the trick, and additionally supplies text to introduce the ?buried alive? mystery among other Indian feats of magic, such as lying on a bed of spikes, eating red-hot coals, and the Hindu basket trick. 10 ? x 6 ??. Flattened folds, paper-clip rust stains.