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Neff, Bill. Scrapbook Kept by Ghost Show Magician Bill Neff. Oblong folio scrapbook owned and kept by Neff, one of the best-known practitioners of the Spook Show genre, and featuring photographs, autographs, letters of endorsement, brochures, clippings, business cards, and other paper ephemera from his career. Includes several photographs of Neff with his boyhood friend and one-time performing partner Jimmy Stewart (as well as a printed advertisement for a joint appearance by the pair), as well as images of Neff with Clyde Beatty and Gene Autry. Among the other contents are letters from fellow magicians, a photograph of an unusual lobby board advertising Annemann’s bullet catch, advertising novelties for Neff’s show, telegrams, Neff’s IBM certificates, postcards, original pen-and-ink illustrations, show tickets, and more. 1930s – 50s, with the contents in generally very good condition.