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[BOOKS - MAGIC INSTRUCTION] Large Lot of Instructional Magic Books for the General Public. More than 100 items. V.p. Includes: The Big Book of Magic, by Patrick Page (Wolfe, 1976); — The Boy’s Book of Conjuring, by Eugene Stone, editor (Ward, Lock & Co., 1953); — Famous Magic Secrets, by Will Dexter, compiler (Abbey Library, c. 1968); — The Handbook of Mental Magic, by Marvin Kaye (Stein and Day, 1975); — Houdini’s Escapes, by Walter B. Gibson (Harcourt Brace, 1930); — The Hundred Best Tricks, by J. C. Cannell (Hutchinson & Co. Ltd., n.d.) — Magic, by Barrows Mussey (A. S. Barnes, 1942); — The Magic Book, by Harry Lorayne (W. H. Allen, 1977); — Magic from Your Pocket, by Bill Severn (Faber and Faber, 1965); — Magic of the Masters, by Jack Devlin (Hamlyn, 1977); — Magic Illustrated Dictionary, by Geoffrey Lamb (Kaye & Ward, 1979); — Magic Simplified, by Harry Baron (Nicholas Kaye, 1954); — Making Magic, by Fay Presto (Reed International, 1993); — Mark Wilson’s Complete Course in Magic (Ottenheimer, 1988); — Paul Daniels Adult Magic, by Barry Murray (Michael O’Mara, 1989); — The Real Book of Magic, by Joseph Leeming (Dennis Dobson, 1958); — Siegfried & Roy, by Annette Tapert (William Morrow, 1992); and others. A few INSCRIBED AND SIGNED. In publisher’s bindings, as issued. All illustrated. Most with Dawes bookplates. 8vos and 4tos. Condition generally good or better.