The English Language Folio Society in slipcase
The Folio Society, 2006. Hardcover. In dark red slipcase. More
Miscellaneous
A Night at the Sweet Gum Head: Drag, Drugs, Disco, and Atlanta's Gay Revolution
W. W. Norton & Company, June 2021. Trade Paperback. Coursing with a pumped-up beat, gay Atlanta was the South's mecca--a beacon for gays and lesbians growing up in its homophobic towns and cities. There, the Sweet Gum Head was the club for achieving drag stardom. Martin Padgett evokes the fantabulous..... More
Staff Pick
Gibeciere, Winter 2009 Vol. 4, No. 1
Conjuring Arts Research Center, 2009. Paper Back. {6 & 1/2' x 9 & 1/2'} Small quarto. Clean, unread, as new. 195 pages. More
Gibeciere, Vol. 9, No. 1 (Winter 2014) (Journal of the Conjuring Arts Research Center)
Conjuring Arts Research Center, January 2014. Paper Back. Small quarto. (6 & 1/2' x 9 & 1/2'}. Clean, sound, no markings. 164 pages. More
Gibeciere, Winter 2010 , Vol. 5, No. 1
The Conjuring Arts Research Center, 2010. Paper Back. Small quarto; {6 & 1/2' x 9 & 1/2'}; mild edgewear to cover. 180 pages. More
Gibeciere, Vol. 6, No. 2, Summer 2011
Conjuring Arts Research Center, 2011. Soft Cover. Small quarto; {6 & 1/2' x 9 & 1/2'} Clean, sound. Without markings. 193 pages. More
Professional Magic Made Easy
Gramercy, (1959). Hardcover. A little foxing, but overall, a clean, solid copy. More
Tricks & Illusions
Routledge & Dutton, (circa 1910). Hardcover. Fourth edition. Covers badly worn, faded and soiled; pages foxed; previous owners' names in front; binding tender. Not an attractive copy, but a complete, thorough work with excellent illustrations throughout. More
The Knights Templar and Their Myth
Destiny Books, May 1990. Trade Paperback. Bound by religious vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience, the Knights Templar were a Military Crusading Order engaged in religious war in the Holy Land. At the end of the thirteenth century, after their withdrawal from Syria, they became the apparently innocent victims of..... More
Tom Swift and the City of Gold
Price Stern Sloan Pub, January 1972. Hardcover. More
Tom Swift and the Visitor from Planet X
Grosset & Dunlap, January 1972. Trade Paperback. More
Tom Swift in the Jungle of the Mayas
Grosset & Dunlap, January 1972. Paper Back. More
CARD TRICKS HOW TO DO THEM, AND SLEIGHT OF HAND
Charles T. Powner Co., January 1902. Soft Cover. 16mo. {4 & 1/4' x 6'} Darkened & worn with small creases, flaking. One inch tear at bottom of spine front hinge. 156 pages plus three pages of advertisements. More
Exclusive Problems in Magic
Edward Bagshawe, 1924. Soft Cover. Octavo. {5 & 1/2' x 8 & 1/2'} There is no publication date, but other dealers list this in early 1920s. Sewn binding.Darkening along spin Edgeworn. Two different previous owner's have inked there name and a date on first inside page. The earliest of these..... More
An Exaltation of Larks
Penguin Books, October 1977. Trade Paperback. Lightly toned with minor shelf wear. More
Blackstone's Secrets of Magic
A.L. Burt Company, 1929. Cloth. In edgeworn dustjacket with several tears. Darkened at margins. Some soiling. Toning. Azure blue cloth covered boards with black lettering and stamped black illustrations on spine and front panel. Mild tanninb to end pages. Yellow top tinting darkened by years on shelves. Fore-edge and bottom..... More
Leaves From Conjuror's Scrap Books
Donohue & Henneberry, January 1891. Cloth. Early printing, possibly a first edition variant. Burgundy cloth with black lettering with stamped black floral decorative illustration front panel and tooled black borderlines likewise on front panel. Gold lettering (that is starting to fade) on spine. Boards wearing at edges. Corners bruised. Cloth..... More
Original Magical Creations
Will Goldston Limited, January 1920. Hardcover. 12mo. {4 & 3/4' x 7 & 1/2'} Illustrated paper covered boards heavily worn at edges. A vertical crack is starting parallel to spine front and back, though hinge remains solid. Dust staining of textblock fore-edge and top and bottom edge. Front free end..... More
Magical rope ties and escapes
Will Goldston, January 1920. First Edition. Hardcover. 5' x 7 & 1/4'; Pictorial paper covered boards; heavily worn at edges. Blue lettering a bit faded on spine. Darkening & tanned first inside and last inside pages. (78 pages). More
Man with the Dream, the - a Pictorial Tribute to the Life and 50-year Career of David L Wolper
American Film Institute, January 1999. Oversized Hardcover. Still in shrinkwrap. More
The Desire to Desire: The Woman's Film of the 1940s (Theories of Representation and Difference)
Indiana University Press, June 1987. Trade Paperback. Brilliantly argued and lucidly written . . . the definitive psychoanalytic account of the repression of woman in Hollywood cinema. --Tania Modleski . . . complex and challenging . . . --The Womens Review of Books . . . magnificently ambitious .... More
Scarlett Rules: When Life Gives You Green Velvet Curtains, Make a Green Velvet Dress
Villard, April 2006. Trade Paperback. "Some day I'm going to do and say everything I want to do and say, and if people don't like it I don't care."-Scarlett O'Hara, from Gone with the Wind Ever since the publication of Margaret Mitchell's 1936 epic blockbuster, Gone with the Wind, Scarlett..... More
Yearling
Aladdin Paperbacks, September 2001. Trade Paperback. An American classic--and Pulitzer Prize-winning story--that shows the ultimate bond between child and pet. No novel better epitomizes the love between a child and a pet than The Yearling. Young Jody adopts an orphaned fawn he calls Flag and makes it a part of..... More
Great Illusionists
Chartwell Books Inc., May 1984. First Edition. Cloth. First/first (US); Quarto {8 & 1/2' x 9 & 3/4'}; sound binding with unmarked interior pages. Dustjacket has moderate darkening and cloudy tanning. Black clothcovered boards with gold lettering. (216 pages). More
Aunt Mathilda and the Lost Cheese
Pied Piper Books, 1946. Hardcover. Quarto; {7 & 1/4' x 10'}; Heavily worn illustrated full color pape coveed boards with considerable wear, flaking and scuff marks. Dark stains and soiling, especially visible back cover. In blue crayon in a child's hand, 'Allen' is lettering verso of front cover board. Interior..... More
