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STEELE, J.H. (compiler). Two Volume Scrapbook and Notebook of Magic Ephemera. Circa 1910s - 70s. Comprising three volumes, including two volumes with several hundred pieces of magicians’ ephemera including programs, playbills and small posters, throw cards, autographs, stage money, letters, letterhead, bookplates, cartoons, clippings, postcards, and related ephemera. Performers include Dante, Sorcar, Alexander “The Man Who Knows,” Bill Neff, Harry Blackstone, Al Flosso, George Jenness, Al Koran, Chung Ling Soo, Les Levante, Horace Goldin, Will Goldston, Karl Germain, Maurice Rooklyn, Lyle, Professor Herwin, Hugall Benedict, David Devant, and many other conjurers, mainly British, plus ephemera from magic magazines, cartoons, societies and fraternities. The third volume is Steele’s personal magic notebook, “Magical Effects Devised and Presented by J.H. Steele,” with his “Comedy Conjurer & Ventriloquist” letterhead pasted on the preliminaries. 120 pages, neat manuscript, plus index, with original ink illustrations. 4tos. Navy cloth/boards, gilt-stamped titles by Steele.