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HARBIN, Robert (Ned Williams, 1908 – 78). The Magic of Robert Harbin. London: Author, 1970. First and only edition. UNNUMBERED REVIEW COPY, INSCRIBED AND SIGNED by Harbin and his wife Dolly. Pebbled green cloth decorated in gilt, with Zig-Zag Girl design to front board. Color frontispiece, illustrated with line drawings by the author. Tall 4to. Light wear to spine, Near Fine. Bayard Grimshaw and Edwin Dawes bookplates. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED to Dawes by Grimshaw: “To my valued friend Eddie Dawes; I had long / ago promised to leave this book to him in my Will, but / I can not keep him waiting any longer! / In gratitude for his friendship over many years, / Bayard Grimshaw. / 22nd February, 1991.” Color photograph of Dawes receiving the book from Grimshaw tipped to ffep; book review from the July 1970 issue of The Budget laid in. Sold with: The Harbin Book by Martin Breese (ed.). London: Martin Breese Publishing Limited, 1983. Publisher’s green pebbled cloth, front board gilt stamped. 4to. Near Fine; — Signed black and white photograph of Harbin performing his famous Zig-Zag Girl illusion, which appears on p. 123. Framed to 10 ¼ x 7 ¾”; — And a small promotional photograph of Harbin, signed.