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FOREPAUGH, Adam (1831–90). THREE FOREPAUGH SOUVENIR BOOKS AND PROGRAMS. Including 4Paw’s Puzzle Book for Children of All Ages. New York: McCaddon, 1892. - The Animal Kingdom Illustrated And Sketches Descriptive of the Beasts and Birds Contained in Forepaugh’s Menagerie. Buffalo: Courier Company, 1880. - and The Adam Forepaugh & Sells Brothers, Book of Wonders. Buffalo: Courier, 1903. All illustrated (primarily with images of animals and other attractions from the shows), and bound in pictorial publisher’s wraps, the lattermost with lithographed covers. Scattered soiling and chips, but good condition overall. The “puzzle” pamphlet offered here contains in its pages an illustrated version of the Impenetrable Secret, called “The Nineveh Puzzle,” which in its many forms has presented as a conjuring trick. A viewer chooses one of several images from the circus, represented in various positions on grids that fill the booklet’s pages. After this choice is secretly made and the viewer announces the pages on which his selection appears, the owner of the book instantly knows which image was chosen without asking further questions.