New York: Harper and Brothers, 1924. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's dark blue ribbed cloth stamped in gilt. Near Fine with light mottling to cloth at rear cover, light rubbing at spine ends and very slight fading to spine. Yellow topstain lightly and occasionally bleeding into top margins..... More
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1924. First edition, first printing. Bound in publisher's dark blue ribbed cloth stamped in gilt; lacking the dust jacket. Very Good with light staining to topstain, and light stains to front cover visible in raking light, wrinkle to cloth on rear cover, light edge wear..... More
New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, 1920. First edition. Signed by Harry Houdini twice: inscribed to former owner, Allan Warshauer, manager of the Orpheum Theatre in Oakland, CA where Houdini did an escape stunt on 3/26/23, dated. Also flat-signed "Houdini" on the dedication page. xiv, 240pp. Bound in publisher's tan..... More
New York: Julian Messner Inc., 1957. First edition. 249 pp. Publisher's blue cloth with blue spine lettering. Former owner's bookplate on paste down, else Fine in Very Good+ dust jacket, a little edge-worn, price-clipped. The first book by the author of The Mothman Prophecies, an entertaining travelogue of magic in..... More
Philadelphia: David McKay, 1914. First American edition. (Similar to first English edition of 1913, stating "Printed in England" on copyright page. No additional printings indicated on copyright and title pages. Front flap ad for "Ephemeris to 1915," which would only have been advertised in 1914.) xxxiv + 536 pp. Illustrated..... More
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1938. First edition. Signed by John Mulholland, warmly inscribed to Horace Mann school acquaintance Wilfred Rothschild (likely the Hollywood writer who was a distant relative of the moneyed family) on half-title in ink. x, 342 pp. Original black cloth with white lettering. Near Fine with..... More
London: G. Bell & Sons, 1914. First edition. Inscribed on half title "All good wishes, The Author April 1914," signed in the year of publication. xii, 161, (1) (2 ads) pp. Red cloth with gilt decoration on front board, green on spine. Very Good+ in rare original dust jacket, spine..... More