A COLLECTION OF ORIGINAL MAGIC BOOKLETS

Octavo (9 1/4 by 6 1/4 inches) Various places: San Rafael, California; Springfield, Massachusetts; Chicago; Columbus, Ohio, 1931 - 1958 a sammelband of TWELVE INDIVIDUAL BOOKLETS (eleven specifically on magic) bound together in their original stiff paper wrappers (several of them decorated with illustrations), all in very good condition; bound in a professionally prepared binding in red cloth, with a black label and gilt title on spine.

The titles include: "The Magic of Rezvani," "Joe Karson's The World's Fastest Card Trick" (with a signed presentation by Karson), "Ireland Writes A Book," "Le Paul Presents The Card Magic of Bro. John Hamman S. M. 'New and Different Effects With Playing Cards," "Thornton's "Secrets of Mental Magic," "How's Your Library? A Guide To Cataloguing And Caring For Books," "Rope Eternal, an encyclopedia on cut and restored rope tricks," "Sponge Ball Manipulation," "Tricks For Kid-Shows," "How To Do Headline Predictions,"Ireland's "Card Annual 1957-1958 (two volumes)"

Collected by an amateur magician, Mariano Arevalo, who signed the front fly leaf of the collection, with the date 9/23/60; and also signed several of the booklets