This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 10/28/2023
BODIE, Walford (1869–1939). SCRAPBOOK OF DR. BODIE EPHEMERA AND CLIPPINGS. Small folio scrapbook assembled by noted magic collector James Findlay, and comprised of green cloth-covered boards bound in string, the interior filled with clippings regarding Bodie’s storied career as the “electrical wizard”; a four page newsprint periodical titled New Light on the Great Bodie Versus Irving Case (1912), Thousands Buried Alive! Startling Revelations by Bodie (12-page chapbook, bearing the Doctor’s portrait on the front wrapper, margins trimmed close); an INSCRIBED AND SIGNED boudoir card-format bust portrait of Bodie, the signature in the margin rubbed away; typed and handwritten notations regarding Bodie and his family tree; a RPPC picturing his manor home in Macduff; a theatrical program advertising his “electric life pills” and other theater programs, including his final appearance in Glasgow; and a host of pictorial news clippings and full-page news stories regarding Bodie, his home, and his various marriages. Contents generally in good to very good condition. Sold together with a trimmed Bodie broadside.