London: Will Goldston, 1921. First and only edition, first printing; dedication label to Harry Kellar mounted on verso of frontis. Very Good, with rubbing to corners, light wear at spine ends, light soiling to boards, offsetting to title page and glue offset front paste down. A particularly nice copy of..... More
New York: E.P. Dutton & Company, 1929. First Edition, Second Printing. In Very Good+ condition, in a Very Good dust jacket. Light dust soiling and foxing to top edge of page block, light small stain to bottom edge of page block. Light edge wear, light bumping to corners. The dust..... 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
[no place]: [no publisher], 1980. Ca. 1980. Four 16" x 13" photo albums containing a collection of roughly 547 business cards of entertainers, the large majority magicians, but also clowns, jugglers, ventriloquists, psychics and mentalists, balloon figure makers, comedians, puppeteers, escape artists, and a few musicians. Arranged alphabetically on self-stick..... 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
Buffalo: Prometheus Books, 1982. Warmly inscribed by James Randi on half title to biologist and fellow skeptic Stephen Jay Gould, "To S.J.G. - This is the story of one charlatan - by another -- All best, [signed] Randi Nov./ 85." A pleasant association between two figures within the skeptical movement..... More