The Collection of Jim Rawlins Part II

Okito (Theo Bamberg). Quality Magic. Presentation Copy, Signed Twice. London: Will Goldston, [1921]. Publisher’s pictorial boards. Inscribed by Okito on the title page: “To Victor Farrelly [sic]/wishing him some pleasant moments with/Theo Okito/Cairo—Jan 22nd 1922.” Signed on the frontispiece: “Sincerely yours/Theo Okito/Cairo—22-1-22.” Illustrated. 12mo. Small Okito address label to the foreword page. Pencil notations to the text, presumably Farelli’s. Okito embarked on his second world tour in 1919, leaving New York for a years-long journey that included South America, South Africa, England, Egypt, India, and other parts of Asia. According to his own account in The Sphinx, Okito arrived in Cairo from Alexandria on January 10th, and played at the Kursaal Theatre for two weeks. He visited the Great Sphinx, and departed for Bombay on the 26th, noting “there is no real Egyptian magic.”