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STONE, Sol (1922-2021). Sol Stone’s Close-up Kit with manuscript pages of magic trick instructions. A black fabric bag filled with tricks and paraphernalia, including a color-changing pocket knife, folding Liberty half-dollar, fake cigarette prop, expanding cigar case, half-dollar coin (for “One to Five” or “One-Coin Tenkai”), short ropes (for The Strung Coin trick), Thumb Tip, decks of cards, and much more. With two COAs signed on verso by one of his children (Bob), one for the folding Liberty half-dollar, and the black fabric bag. Offered with 22 pages of manuscript notes in pen or pencil on lined paper and a 16-page booklet with lined paper, all with pen or pencil notes. Much of this material was the basis of various passages of The Magic of Sol Stone from Harry Lorayne’s Apocalypse (1980s), with a collected offprint of these articles (1993). An excellent group of tricks and manuscript material by a noted an inventive modern close-up and coin magician, and one of the mentors of David Roth (1952-2021), one of the greatest coin magicians of modern times.