stephen minch (76 Ergebnisse)

paperback. Zustand: Very Good.

Zustand: Very Good. Illus. by author, 11 x 8.5", plastic comb bound pict wraps, 32pp, covers with uneven toning, minor edge wear and soil, small paper price sticker inside front cover, contents a little edge-toned but still a nice copy of this SCARCE book. Magic, Card Tricks.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. Lyles, Kelly (illustrator). Later Printing. With dust jacket. The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.

Original Wraps. Zustand: Very good. First Edition. Octavo. 58pp stained on the first page from bleeding, otherwise a very good copy in blue wraps spiral bound.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Lyles, Kelly (illustrator). Missing dust jacket; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Softcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: No dust jacket. First Edition. Published by Daryl Martinez 1982, presumed first edition. Stapled trade paperback in VG condition; slight curl to covers, no marks or tears. 5.25 x 8.5 in., 90 pp. Author Minch explains some of the techniques of the close-up magic of Daryl (Martinez), much-awarded card manipulator who passed away in 2017. This copy inscribed & signed by Daryl inside the front cover. Signed & inscribed.

Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo, 168 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good dust jacket. Spine has purple lettering on a white printed background. Dust jacket is in a mylar sleeve, no tears, folds or missing pieces. Bound in black cloth with gold lettering on the spine. Slight dent at top of spine. Ephemera from publisher laid in. Illustrated. Shelved in Alcove. 1392365. Special Collections.

Hardcover. First Edition. Octavo. 245 pages. Very Good plus. In original shrink wrap. Spine has white lettering on red backgrounds. Shelved in Alcove. 1388585. Special Collections.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Hardcover. 11.25"x9" 176pp. B&W illustrations throughout text. Blackcloth over boards, gold text on spine. DJ is red with illustration, blackand white text. Binding has slight bumping to corners, else Very Good. DJis Near Fine.

Hardcover. First Edition. Quarto, 135 pages. In Very Good condition. Spine has black lettering on white background. No dust jacket as issued. Bound in white cloth with black lettering on the spine, with the front lettering in black inside of a design of the New York skyline. Top and bottom of spine slightly dented, soiling on the boards upper left corners bumped. Contains tricks shared at the Magic Symposium held in San Francisco and New York in 1984. Illustrated. Shelved in Alcove. 1392026. Special Collections.

Hardcover. First Edition. Quarto, 135 pages. In Very Good condition. Bound in white cloth with black lettering on the spine, with the front lettering in black inside of a design of the New York skyline. No dust jacket as issued. Top and bottom of spine slightly dented, some light soiling on the boards. A few minor stains to fore edges of text blocks. Contains tricks shared at the Magic Symposium held in San Francisco and New York in 1984. Illustrated. Shelved in Alcove. 1392025. Special Collections.

hardcover. Zustand: Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good. 1st Edition, later printing. Jacket has light wear, book edges and end-pages have light foxing, binding sound, internally clean. In ancient Rome there was a horn from which the riches of the world flowed. Now, from the fertile mind of John Carney, magicians have a new source of magical riches at their disposal. CARNEYCOPIA Within these pages are taught the prized secrets of one of today's finest and most creative magical entertainers John Carney. Here is the close-up magic of which he is proudest; magic that has won its creator the acclaim of his peers and the public alike. Each routine, trick and sleight is taught in painstaking detail. Here, waiting to amaze your audiences, is a compen-dium of close-up magic,formulated on the classic values of entertainment and baffling mystery.

(4), 90 pp. Illustrated. Soft cover. A Near fine copy. Magic by Daryl.

8vo, pp. 268, [2]; text illustrations throughout; limp pink leather, fine. Including: "Blacaman the Fakir: In history and legend," Enrique Jimenez-Martinez; "The power of magic," Edward McGuire; "Nouvelle magie blanche devoilee, part 4," J.N. Ponsin, translated by Jean Hugard.

8vo, pp. 259, [3]; text illustrations throughout; pictorial limp cloth, fine. Including: "An assembly in an old alphabet," Riccardo Rampini; "Verini's Spechio," William Kalush; "Nouvelle magie blanche devoilee, Part 5," J. N. Ponsin, translated by Jean Hugard.

8vo, pp. 177, [3]; text illustrations throughout; limp green leather, fine. Including: "From Baghdad to Cordoba: conjurers in the medieval Arab world," Pierre Taillefer; "The Marquis D'Ambreville, a conjurer at Pluto's court," Pierre Taillefer; "Jean-Nicolas Ponsin: a supplemental unveiling," Maxwell Pritchard; "J. N. Ponsin's supplement to ancient and modern sorcery explained," translated by Maxwell Pritchard.

8vo, pp. 193, [3]; text illustrations throughout; stiff pink paper wrappers; fine. Including the articles: "An investigation into magic in Japan," Mitsunobu Matsuyama; "A cheat for two," Thierry Depaulis; "The antidote or counterpoison against the knights of industry," A venetian.

8vo, pp. 179, [3]; text illustrations throughout; limp blue leather, fine. Including: "A note on an unfinished monogram," Dr. Will Houstoun; "Professor Hoffmann: behind the books," Peter Brunning; "Professor Hoffmann and King Koko," Dr. Will Houstoun; "Nouvelle magie blanche devoilee, part 3," J. N. Ponsin, translated by Jean Hugard.

8vo, pp. 173, [1]; text illustrations throughout; illustrated tan paper wrappers; fine. Including: "Pinetti: new discoveries, part 1," Frederic Tabet and Pierre Taillefer; "Friedrich Joseph Muller," Magic Christian; "Tracking slum magic to its lair," Max Maven; "Magic of the Pont Neuf," Anonymous, translated by Maxwell Pritchard.

8vo, pp. 211, [5]; text illustrations throughout; green paper wrappers, fine. Including: "Galasso: on the trail of Horatio," Mauro, Massironi; "A devotione," William Kalush; "Borges and magic: how to hid a murder with a card trick," Federico Luduena; "The mysteries of Pharaoh unveiled," introduced by Thierry Depaulis.

8vo, pp. 166, [2]; text illustrations throughout; teal paper wrappers, fine. Including: "Metsuke-ji: the trick that taught a country," Mitsunobu Matsuyama; "The emperor of coins: Allan Shaw," Jerry Christensen; "The truth: the fate of Hofzinser's props," Magic Christian; "One thousand and one years of Persian magic," Reza Saberi.

8vo, pp. 169, [3]; text illustrations throughout; limp tan leather, fine. Including: "Hieronimo Scotto: conjurer of the Renaissance," Riccardo Rempini; "Marvelous secrets of nature," Francesco Travaglia; "Nouvelle Magie Blanche Devoilee, Part I," J. N. Ponsin, translated by Jean Hugard.

8vo, pp. 250, [2]; text illustrations throughout; limp red leather, fine. Including: "Bosch's 'Juggler' revisited," Steffen Taut; "Liber sextus decretalium," William Kalush; "Hofzinser: moments of surprise," Magic Christian; "The long way 'round," Judge Gary R. Brown; "Nouvelle Magie Blanche Devoilee, Part 2," J. N. Ponsin, translated by Jean Hugard.

8vo, pp. 153, [3]; text illustrations throughout; yellow printed wrappers; creasing to top edge of wrapper and dust jacket, spine lightly sunned, very good. Including the papers: "Vernon the Mesmerist," Peter Lamont; "An investigation into magic in Japan after the opening of the country, Part IV," Mitsunobu Matsuyama; "Lessons written with a small gimmick," Loren Pankratz.

8vo, pp. 157, [3]; text illustrations throughout; blue printed paper wrappers; fine in fine dust jacket. Includes the following articles: "The educated swan," Volker Huber; "An investigation into magic in Japan after the opening of the country pt. II," Mitsunobu Matsuyama; "Notes on Pietro Aretino's Le Carte Parlanti," Aurelio, Paviato; "Abraham Bamberg: The augmentation of a dynasty," Peter Brauning.

8vo, pp. [2],197, [2]; text illustrations throughout; timeline of Japanese magic laid in; green printed paper wrappers, fine in fine dust jacket. Contains the following articles: "An investigation into magic in Japan after the opening of the country, pt. I," Mitsunobu Matsuyama; "Recreations mathematiques: A study of its authorship, sources and influence," Albrecht Hoeffer; "Del Adelphia, the cowboy magician," Mike Caveney.

8vo, pp. 159, [3]; text illustrations throughout; purple paper wrappers; corner bumped, else fine in fine dust jacket. Including the papers: "An investigation into magic in Japan after the opening of the country, Part III," Mitsunobu Matsuyama; "The Pendulum 'knows'," William E. Spooner; "Max Beckmann and his magic mirror," Volker Huber; "Introduction to the adventures of Barolomeo Bosco," Ricky Jay; "The adventures of Bartolomeo Bosco," F. A. Rosental.

8vo, pp. 157, [1]; text illustrations throughout; brown stiff paper wrappers; touch of sunning to spine, else fine. Including the papers: "Spider in the flies," Jim Steinmeyer; "An investigation into magic in Japan after the opening of the country, part VII," Mitsunobu Matsuyama; "The influence of Ozanam," William Kalush & Stephen Minch; "Ozanam's Magic," translated by Lori Piper.

8vo, pp. 193, [3]; text illustrations throughout; green stiff paper wrappers; fine. Including the papers: "An investigation into magic in Japan after the opening of the country, part VIII," Mitsunobu Matsuyama; "Zamorano and the criticism of Engaños a Ojos Vistas" Enrique Jimenez-Martinez; "Fray Benito Jeronimo Feijoo on magicians of antiquity," translated by Lori Pieper; "Attractive treasury of curiosities," Diego Joseph Zamorano translated by Lori Pieper; "Where Zamorano was wrong (and right)," Stephen Minch.

8vo, pp. 203, [1]; text illustrations; burgundy stiff paper wrappers; fine. Including the papers: "Faustino Chacon," Enrique Jimenez-Martinez; "The world according to James William Elliott," Jan B. A. Janson; "Elliott: appendix one, [two and three]," James William Elliott; "Monge and his shuffle," R. Sid Spocane II; "Reflections on a card trick," Gaspard Monge.