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Braun, John. John Braun’s Signed Magic Club Membership Cards. Including his Society of American Magicians card for 1925, signed by president Harry Houdini; his 1928 S.A.M. card signed by president Howard Thurston; his 1930 International Brotherhood of Magicians card signed by W.W. Durbin as president; and his 1947 I.B.M. card signed by Braun himself as president of the organization. Neatly framed, 9 ½ x 12”. This collage of Braun’s cards hung for years in the library of the Salon de Magie. Braun, who served as editor of the I.B.M. journal for decades, was a mentor to Ken Klosterman and an editor of many notable books on conjuring. His library became the nucleus of Klosterman’s book collection.