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Germain, Karl (Charles Mattmuller). Early Germain Magic Scrapbook. Comprised of thirty leaves filled with clippings, programs, and assorted ephemera chronicling the career of this notable and inventive American magician, and including press clippings dating from 1894 (from a German-language newspaper in Cleveland, his hometown), to approximately 1912. Most clippings bear notations or dates in Germain’s hand. One of them, on the penultimate leaf, points to a note in a newspaper and states, “Final tour.” The clippings are accompanied by loose ephemera from throughout Germain’s lifetime, including printed press sheets, theater programs, letterpress handbills, pencil sketches, printed Germain brochures, a scene and property plot for Germain’s show, a small and rare 1898 letterpress broadside advertising Germain as “The Magician Alexander,” and more. The entire book disbound and neatly organized in an archival pebbled cloth binder, the spine lettered in gilt. An important document of the career of one of magic’s most highly-regarded “golden age” performers.