Take a truly magical mystery tour with this sparkling compendium of magic and trickery from medieval thaumaturgies to 20th-century showmen. Featuring hundreds of rarely seen vintage posters, photographs, handbills, and engravings, Magic follows this special performing art from the 1400s to the 1950s.
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Take a truly magical mystery tour with this sparkling compendium of magic and trickery from medieval thaumaturgies to 20th-century showmen. Featuring hundreds of rarely seen vintage posters, photographs, handbills, and engravings, Magic follows this special performing art from the 1400s to the 1950s.
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Seller's Description:
Very Good in Very Good jacket. 10 1/2 x 15 1/2. Boxed set hardcover-544 pages with many color illustrations. Text in English, German, and French. Introduction by Ricky Jay, and essays by Mike Caveney and Jim Steinmeyer. A major survey of magic history with an enormous number (over 850) of illustrations. Box is color printed board-very good condition. Dust jacket has a chip at bottom spine, otherwise no flaws. Black on black exterior. Interior is unmarked, tight and clean. Very large and heavy-so mailing other than domestic standard will require extra charges.
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Very good in Very good jacket. Oversized. Dust jacket edgeworn, with a tear at the bottom of the spine that has been taped. Extra shipping will be required for this itemas it clocks in at 17 pounds.
A huge heavy, oversized book, the mother of all coffee table books. Absolutely great old posters of magic acts, lots of history, and a wonderful book to simply look at the pictures for those who don't want to read it all.
