MAGIC: PICTORIAL HISTORY OF CONJURERS IN THE THEATER - Price, 1st 1985 - SIGNED TAROT endpapers and pages age toned

endpapers and pages age toned (some more than others)

1909 stated second edition of a book that was much reprinted in a revised edition during the turn of the century

IN OPPOSITION TO THE WORK OF PROFESSOR BUSH — By Calvin Kingsley — Very Early Edition

Describing his invention in 1771

MAGIC: PICTORIAL HISTORY OF CONJURERS IN THE THEATER - Price, 1st 1985 - SIGNED TAROT endpapers and pages age tonedMAGIC: A PICTORIAL HISTORY OF CONJURERS IN THE THEATER Publisher: Cornwall Books, New York (1985). First and only edition. Very scarce signed copy. Hardcover with dust jacket. 551 pages, and illustrated throughout. David Prices wonderful history of magicians in the theater from the time they came in from the streets and carnivals and began competing with actors of the legitimate stage to the beginning of World War II. All the greats are included: