Magical Collectables – old, used, antique and sundry items

This is our collection of one-off and sundry magic items – both old and new. Some are rare items from Martin Breese’s personal collection; others are ex-stock items.

Please email John to order any of these. Shipping will be added depending on the size of your order and your location. Orders are confirmed by payment to our Paypal account breese@lybrary.com. Items are marked as sold as soon as possible after orders are received.

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COLLECTABLE BOOKS & DOCUMENTS

All of these books have been priced to sell, and are well below prices I have found through book dealers such as ABE, Amazon etc. (Though some do not seem to be available anywhere!)

We are happy to better any price you can find for these books.

	Abbott, David P		Behind the Scenes with Mediums	Open Court Publishing 1916		Faded soft cover, spine cracked, but very good copy for age		£25
		Al Koran	Bring out the Magic in Your Mind		A Thomas 1964		1st reprint dated December 1964.	£15
	Ammar, Michael		The Toppit Book	Secret Service, 1983		Very Good condition with Forward by Dai Vernon		£20
	Andrews, Val		A Gift from the Gods: The Story of Chung Ling Soo, Marvellous Chinese Conjurer	Goodliffe 1981		Fine 1st edition. Signed by Val Andrews and dedicated to Martin (Breese)		£100
	Ayling, Will		Oriental Conjuring and Magic from an index by SH Sharpe	Supreme 1981		Very good near fine condition though jacket slightly faded. Dedicated to Martin Breese and signed by Sharpe.		£160
	Ayling, Will (edited by Hugh Miller and introduction by Lewis Ganson)		The Art of Illusion	Harry Stanley -no date		Book in good condition, Jacket is torn. 1st Edition		£40
	Baker, Al		Magical Ways and Means – Sixty tricks by Al Naker	Waring Jones, 1946		Hard Back – faded cover but otherwise good condition		£10
	Bamerg and Parrish		Okito on Magic	Edward Drane,1952		1st edition. Cover faded and no Jacket but clean, tight copy		SOLD
	Becker, Larry		Larry Becker’s World of Super Mentalism	Tannen, 1978		Spiral Bound. Good condition, SIGNED by Becker		£30
	Bergeron, Bev		Willard the Wizard	Lake Cane 1978		Very Good		£30
	Brinson, Christopher		Owen Clark A Genius Forgotten	Arcady,2010		1st Ed, signed by the author. As new paperback		£30
	Buckley, Arthur		Principles and Deceptions	Williamson Press, 1948		Leather Bound in very good condition. First Edition		£50
		Cannell, J C	The Secrets of Houdini		Hutchinson 1932		Boards are bumped and a little grubby but book is fairly tight clean copy	£20
	Clarke, Sidney W.		Annals of Conjuring	Miracle Factory		New, Shrink Wrapped		£200
	Clarke, Sidney W.		Annals of Conjuring	Miracle Factory		Boxed Ltd Ed number 4 of 8 boxed, signed w. uncut sheet		£600
	Cohen, David		Price & His Spirit Child Rosalie	Regency press 1965		1st Edition, nook is very good, Jacket is fair condition.		£30
	Corinda, Tony		13 Steps to Mentalism	Accuba 1964		Very Good - No DJ		£50
	Corinda, Tony		13 Steps to Mentalism	Supreme 1984		Fine book in Very good dust jacket		£50
	Corinda, Tony		Selected Series No 1 – The Centre Tear			6 page Pamphlet		£10
	Dai Vernon and Ganson (ed)		Malini and His Magic	Stanley		Fair		£13
	Dexter, Will. Illustrated by Jack lamonte		Sealed Vision	George Armstrong, 1956		1st ed Fine condition in fine dust jacket		£20
	Earl Derr Biggers		7 keys to Baldpate	Harrap 1930		Reprint in bright period jacket – which has tears etc at ends. Book is very good		£50
		Elbiquet	Supplementary magic		George Routledge		Not dated in blue/green boards with faded spine. Pages are bright. Clean and unmarked apart from neat stamp of 'Magicians Library, Birmingham'	£20
	Farelli, Victor		John Ramsay’s Routine with Cups and Balls	George Armstrong, 1948		1st Ed. Cover faded but good clean copy.		£50
	Fechner		Magic of Robert-Houdin	FCF, 2002		Boxed as new		£300
	Forte, Steve		Casino Game Protection	SLF 2004		As new, Signed by author.		£270
	Fulves, Karl		The Best of Slydini…and More	Tannen 1976		2 Volume set Text and Photographs. Leather Bound Good condition		£50
	Fulves, Karl		The Best of Slydini…and More	Robbins 1976		2 Volume set Text and Photographs. Very Good condition		£50
	Galloway, Andrew		The Ramsay legend	Goodliffe, 1969		1st Ed Good/Very Good condition in bright yellow jacket with very minor tears and bumping		£200
	Ganson, Lewis		Dai Vernon's Tribute to Nate Leipzig	Harry Stanley		Very Good		£30
	Ganson, Lewis		The Art of Close up Magic Volume 1	Harry Stanley, 1967		Book is very good bound in brown leather-type and is clean and tight with no markings apart from Previous owner's neat address label. Pink Jacket is faded on spine with tears to corners		£30
	Ganson, Lewis		The Art of Close up Magic Volume 1 and 2	Supreme, 1971 and 1972		Books are both in good, bright condition with Jackets a bit faded and bumped		£45
	Ganson, Lewis		The Magic of Slydini	Harry Stanley, no date		Good/Very good book condition in very good jacket. Prob 1st Edition signed and dedicated by Ganson		£60
		Ganthony, Robert	Random recollections		Drane 1898		Guilt writing on blue cover is still bright. Book is undated but neat owner's inscription seems to be dated May 1898. neat Ex Libris sticker of Paul Daniels. This original edition does not seem to be available anywhere.	£100
	Gibson, Walter		Houdini's Magic	Harcourt, Brace 1932		Very nice tight clean 1st edition with no stamps, marks etc. Very slight shelf wear		£30
	Gibson, Walter		Houdini's Escapes	Harcourt, Brace 1930		Nice bright 1st edition with first few pages a little loose and previous owner's signature		£30
		Gibson, Walter and Young, Morris ed	Houdini on Magic		Dover 1953		This is the hadback first edition. yellow dj is still bright, though has tears and is faded on spine. Book is good with few marks and some yellowing.	£30
	Gill, Robert		Magic as a performing Art – A Bibliography of Conjuring	Bowker 1976		1st Ed. Very good condition though Jacket a bit scruffy. Signed by Gill and dedicated to martin Breese		£25
		Goldin, Horace	It's fun to be fooled		Stanley Paul 1937		1st ed. Tight copy with some marks and a little bumping to boards. Ex Libris sticker and hand written references on ffp.	SOLD
	Goldstein, Phil		A Phil Goldstein Collection	Tenkai Prize Committee		Boxed as new and signed. Beautifully presented in both English and Japenese		£120
	Goldston, Will		A Magician’s Swan Song	John Long – No date c 1935		Good tight copy in black cloth with some fading and a small tear to spine		£30
	Goldston, Will		Sensational Tales of Mystery men	Will Goldston Ltd 1929		Fair condition in pictorial cloths. Stated ‘First Impression Dec 1929’ and with Signed Presented by’ sticker signed by Goldston. Our ‘first edition’ seems to differ from the others that have just boring red cloth cover.		£100
	Goldston, Will		Secrets of Famous Illusionists	John Long, 1933		Fair/Good condition for age. Ex Libris sticker with some cracking to spine and a few loose pages, but still solid and readable.		£40
	Goldston, Will		Tricks and Illusions	Gamage no date c.1910		Probable 1st ed. in good/very good condition for age. Green and gold cover still bright with monor bumping		£50
		Gore, George	The Linking Rings of Jack Miller		Gore 1973		..with poetic and verbal patter. The definitive treatment of the ultimate linking ring routine. 80 page paperback in bright orange cover	£40
	Granville Taylor		John Martin – The master magical mechanic at work	Granville Taylor, 2004		As new signed limited edition 14 of 250		£45
	Gravatt, Glenn		Jap Box tricks - “An exhaustive treatise on the Japanese or Egyptian handkerchief box, containing many new uses, tricks and ideas, together with complete acts and routines”	1937		SIGNED by author, highly collectable. Good condition for age with some fading to cover.		£100
	Hall, Trevor		Search for Harry Price	Duckworth 1978		1st Edition Fine, unmarked Copy		£30
	Harbin, Robert		How to be a Wizard	Oldbourne 1957				Sold
	Harbin, Robert		Harbincadabra	Goodliffe, 1979				Sold
	Hoffman		Later Magic	Routledge, 1904		Very Good 1st Ed		£100
	Hoffman		Latest Magic	Spon & Chamberlin 1918		Fair US 1st Ed		£70
	Hoffman		Magical Titbits	Routledge 1911		Good 1st Ed		£100
	Hoffman		Modern Magic	Routledge		Fair 14th Edition		£20
	Hoffman		More Magic	Routledge		Good ,Prob 1st Ed		£100
	Hoffman		Tricks with Cards	Frederick Warne 1889		Very Good, 1st ed Brown		£100
	Houdini		A Magician Among the Spirits	Harpers 1924		1st Edition Good/Very Good and no markings apart from booksellers stamp (Davenports). Front cloth panel in relatively bright guilt lettering. Spine is faded. Minor bumping to cover. Tight, solid with just a little loosening. Some yellowing to book and page edges.		£400
		Houdini (ed)	Elliott's Last Legacy		Adams press 1923		Red boards are cracked and a little loose. Book itself is clean and bright for age. Fading and dark shading around the front board.	£100
	Hugard, Jean and Frederick Braue		Expert Card Technique: Close up Table Magic	Dover 1974		Paperback		£10
	James, Stewart		Stewart James in Print: The First Fifty Years,	Jogestja 1989		Fine Boxed edition with Collectors memorabilia supplement Signed limited Ed number 151 of 200		£500
	Jarrett and Steinmeyer		Jarrett	Magic Inc, 1981		Jarret's 1936 Jarret Magic and Stagecraft with additional material by Jim Steinmeyer. Book is very good, Jacket is bumped with small tears on spine		£45
	Karr, Todd		Secret Ways of Al Baker	Miracle Factory		Deluxe Limited Edition No 30 of 100		£430
		Kellock, Harold	Houdini His Life Story		Heinemann 1928		Very good condition for age. Minor bumping but clean unmarked copy	£35
	LePaul, Paul		The Card Magic of Le Paul	Tannen, 1959		Book is bumped and rubbed at corners, but a nice copy in blue binding		£25
	LePaul, Paul		The Card Magic of Bro. John Hamman S.M,	Self Published? 1958		Pamphlet 47pp. This is the red coloured first edition		£40
	LePaul, Paul		The Card Magic of Bro. John Hamman S.M,	Don Lawton, 1962		Pamphlet 47pp		£15
	LePaul, Paul		The Card Magic of Le Paul	Interstate, 1949		Book is bumped and rubbed at corners, but a nice copy in original red binding		£45
	Lesley, Ted		Paramiracles	Hermetic, 1994		Dedicated to ‘Vic… ESPecially yours from Ted’. Very good, clean copy		£35
	Levant & Karr		Roy Benson by Starlight	Miracle Factory		Boxed, Signed with Card No 97 of 100		£600
	Lewis, Eric		The Genius or Robert Harbin	Mike Caveney, 1997		Very Food/Fine		£30
		Lippy, John D	Chemical Magic		George Sully 1930		Bright neat copy in orange boards with minor bumping and fading to spine.	£40
	Lovell, Simon		Simon Says	L&L 1997				SOLD
	Maskelyne, JN		Automata	Magic Circle Foundation 1989				SOLD
	Maskelyne, JN		The Fraud of "Theosophy" exposed	Routledge, 1912		Soft Cover aged and torn but book itself is good.		£50
	McComb, Billy		McComb’s Magic	Supreme		Dust jacket has tears. Signed by McComb and dedicated to Marrtin Breese with thanks for his Magicassette contribution to the art of magic.		£60
	Mentzer, Jerry		Close-up Cavalcade	Mentzer 1973		Very Good		£20
	Miller, Hugh		A Pocket Full of Miracles	Supreme, 1978		Very Good 2nd edition		£13
	Miller, Hugh		Baker’s Bonanza	Stanley		Good		£13
	Miller, Hugh		Secrets of Gambling	Stanley		Very Good		£13
	Miller, Hugh (Ed)		The Art of Eddie Joseph	Harry Stanley No Date		Probable 1st Edition. book is bright and jacket shows shelf ware and bumping		£30
	Nathanson, Leon		Slydini Encores	Slydini Studio, 1966		Signed by Slydini and dedicated to Pinto. First Edition is good condition though dust jacket has tears.		£70
	Nathenson, Leon		Slydini Encores	Slydini Studio, 1966				Sold
	Page, Patrick and Goshman		Magic by Gosh	Privately published 1985		Fine condition, signed by Goshman in fine slipcase.		£90
	Pearsall, Ronald		The Table Rappers	Michael Joseph 1972		Good condition		£10
	Price, Harry		The End of Borley Rectory – the most haunted house in England	Harrap1946		1st Edition, No Jacket, Spine Marked and faded. Book clean and firm		£25
	Rapp, Augustus		The Life and Times of Augustus Rapp	Jay Marshall 1959		Very good A4 sized comb bound Ltd Ed number 461 of 500		£50
	Rauscher, William		The Mind readers	Mystic, 2002		Very Good. Signed by Author and dedicated to Martin Breese. Contains a number of Rauscher's publicity postcards and letter		£45
	Richardson, Barrie		Act Two – Theater of the Mind	Hermetic 2005		As new		£25
	Robert-Houdin.		THE SECRETS OF CONJURING AND MAGIC OR HOW TO BECOME A WIZARD translated and edited with notes, by Professor Hoffmann	Routledge 1878		1st edition. Condition fair. Pictorial cloth quite badly damaged by water – hence warped and marked, but book itself is good and tightly bound.		£200
	Ross, Faucett		Early Vernon	Ireland Magic Co, 1952		Ring bound in very good ondition		£20
		Roterberg, A	Latter Day Tricks		Self Published 1896?		Yellow boards are grubby and cracked. Pages bright and clean. Sequel to his 'The Modern Wizard'	£40
	Sharpe, SH		Neo Magic – The Art of the Conjurer	George Johnson 1946		2nd ed. Clean Tight copy apart from fading around edge and spine of red boards		£150
	Sharpe, SH		Neo Magic – The Art of the Conjurer	George Johnson 1932		1st ed. Tight copy with fading to spine and minor bumping to corners. Inscribed by previous owner as presentation copy to Mahatma Circle of Magicians		£180
	Sharpe, SH		Neo Magic Artistry	Miracle Factory		Boxed No 7 of 10 presentaion copies		£1,000
	Spencer, Robert Kirkwood		Fetsching Magic	Magico, 2007				£30
	Stockdale and Raven		The Necromantic Grimoire of Augustus Rupp	Bob Lynn 1974		Fine 1st Ed No 397 of 500. Comes with The Key to the Necomatic Grimoire by Anthony Raven		£400
	Tamariz, Juan		Bewitched Music II: Mnemonica Symphony in Mnemonic Major	Hermetic, 2004		Near fine condition		£35
	Tanner, Don; UF Grant		Victory Carton Illusions	UF Grant				SOLD
	Walker, Mark		Ghostmasters	Mark Walker 1991		Very Good, Jacket marked		£35
	Warlock, Peter		Warlock’s Way	Stanley		Good		£13
	Whaley, Bart with Martin Garber and Jeff Busby		The Man who Was Ernase	Jeff Busby Magic, Inc., 1991		1st Ed. Very good clean copy with previous owner’s small neat label		£100

MAGIC MAGAZINES

	The New Jinx	Volumes 1-36 1962-65	Arlecchino, Bill Masden	Bound in 1 book. Good condition. Items by Anneman, Bobo, Stewart James	£30
	The Jinx	Volumes 1-150 1934-41	Tannen	Bound in 3 Volumes. Good condition	£60
	The Phoenix	Volumes I, II,III and Nos 201-300	Gibson and Elliott	These are not the Tannen re-prints. There are 5 bound volumes in all. The 4th (issues 200-250) is missing but I know where it can be bought. Condition is good – but books are marked	£100
	Pallbearer’s Review	Volumes 5 to 10.	Karl Fulves	Unbound issues. Vols 5 to 9 are complete. Vol 10 lacks last 2 issues. Some Folios included. These are nice clean copies.	£50
	Magic Sounds	Volume 1. Nos 1-17, 1973-76	Craig McComb Snader, (Alex Redans)	Rare - descriptions and catalogue of recordings pertaining to magic. Bound by Martin Breese in one small volume with dedication by Snader dated 1978.	£100
	Pabular	All Volumes	Magico Magazine, 2002	All volumes in two books, fine condition	£100
	The Magigram	Volumes 8, 11, 13,14,15	Supreme	As New. These are lovely clean reprints of the Magazine on high quality paper with Black cloth covers. And, with thanks to Adrian Harris, these were published by Edwin Hooper of The Supreme Magic Co., the editor was Ken De Courcy and each volume was published in book form shortly after issue number 12 of that particular Volume was published	Each £25

COLLECTABLE EFFECTS – One-Off, Antique, old or used

	Presto Change O Knives	Set of 5 Jo Mogar knives -black/red, black/white, black, red, visible Chameleon. Nice condition, nicely weighted. Real knives. Complete with Mogar’s instructions	SOLD
	Brass Coin and Vase from Holland	Solid and fine in original box. No instructions	£20
	Crikey, Eric Mason	Used but fine with magnet and 4 keys.	£10
	Any Time – Parx magic	Neat prediction effect. used	£5
	Ghostly Pocket Square	Unused with folding instructions etc	SOLD
	The Ghost Key, Bob Solari	Make the key bend etc	£10
	Steve Dusheck’s Case of Identity, Supreme	Complete with original instructions
	Ball Through The Sheet Of Glass	This is a classic effect. Metal ball passes through sheet of glass that is shown to be inside the box. Used, could do with a good clean!	SOLD
	Lit Candle To Silk	Neat item from the old days. Lit candle is placed in the nickle-plated 7.5 inch tube and the caps placed on each end of the tube. The cap on one of the tube is taken off and the magician takes out a silk and the candle has vanished. The cap on the other end of the tube is taken off and the tube is seen to be completely empty.	£45
	Charles Gaucci’s Special Ring Gimmick	This is the special finger ring (with small magnets) for Eye to Eye and other mental effects	£20

		Production canary cage	Identical to one pictured in Hoffman’s Modern magic. Nicely made, brass. Used and marked			£100
		Davenport’s Say When Glass	Produces a full glass of milk. It may pre-date the davenports version			£10
		Unknown	Decorative square wooden (ebony?) tube – about 5” long in 3 sections – plus gimmicked coin			£15
		Wonder Box	Copper. Nice object - for producing silks – similar to one sold by Davenports			£20
		Cannister with Bird Cage	No name for this – but allows production of a combination of a liquid, balls and silks from the 12” canister before pulling out a bird in a cage that is the same size as the canister. Used and old and a bit battered.			£50
		Jack LeDair’s Sand and Sugar Trick – Davenports Demon series	Made famous in leading UK Music Halls. The smaller jar fills the larger jar which can be emptied and then re-filled. 27cm high. Condition is fair. Everything works, but paint is flaking off and operation could be made smoother with a little loving care. Photocopied LeDair routine and patter.			£50
		Anverdi Colour Match	Complete with Instructions. Used, but nice bright condition with just a few marks here and there. One of the (non-gimmicked) pens is damaged, but useable - pens can be readily replaced.			£500
		Anverdi Balloon Burster	Also in lovely condition, but no instructions. All the images I have seen of this effect are in red perspex. So this black perspex one must be even more rare!			£600
	Electric Spider Pen			New. Battery driven reel in a real pen. Unopened in package. With spare Spider Thread and spare 8 battery pack (though I don’t guarantee the batteries – unopened but some look a bit past it)	£35
	Bending Glass effect			Nicely made in oak frame with glass sheet. 34cm*16cm. Hide it under a paper or scarf and bend the frame and put a knife through the centre and then show as a solid glass frame.	£100 £60
	5 Colour changing penknives			All white on one side and blue, yellow, white and red on the other	£10
	Ken Brooke’s Hand of Cleopatra				SOLD
	Alan Warner’s Dom-Dom-Domino			Three large dominoes change colour when dropped into wooden box. Used with a few marks but solid. With Alan Warner’s instructions.	£200
	Steve Shufton			Ultimate Floating Match Unused, but packaging opened Matchbox and Matchbook versions	£10
	Harry Baron Double Your Money			Used, old A variation of the Paddle trick with original instructions	£10
	Roy Johnson S.U.M			The set-up Marked Deck. Used – and with note from Roy to Martin B!	£10
	Koonts – Ignition Impossible			As new	£10
	Cornelius Toe Switch			With Flash etc as pictured. The Flash doesn’t seem to work, but I am technically useless and instructions say it works with any flash	SOLD
	Steve Dusheck’s Wunderbar			Seems to be as new with original instructions	£10
	Locking Watch Box –			Vintage Solid wooden. Nicely made 8*7*5.5cm	SOLD
	Locking Watch Box - Preston			Vintage Probably Beech. P Preston mark. Would benefit from some loving care. 11*8*7cm	SOLD
	Kozuch – Impossible 1 to 52			As New, unopened	£15
	Hofzinser’s Carte Blance – Paul Gordon			As new. With photos that allow card to be revealed	£20
	Marc Paul - Affected by Berglas			As new, with DVD. Spectator finds the named card at the named number	SOLD
	Rice Bowls - New			Bramah-type bowls – work in same way as our ceramic bramah bowls advertised on the trick pages. These are larger and glazed and cream in colour. These appear to be a one-off crafted to Martin Breese’s specifications	£60
	Rice Bowls - Antique			Antique/old - in brass with painted black lacquer and with a ‘Klisson’ hallmark	£100
	Steve Cook's Psychic Poker (trick with DVD)				£12
	Miser’s Delight Pro			This seems to be new and unused and isn’t branded. Comes with circuit board, two frosted bags, stands and instructions	£90

DVDs and Sound

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	Rene Lavand - Close up Artistry Vol 1	Used	£20
	Mind Stunts	Used - Signed and Dedicated to Martin Breese	SOLD
	Nick Lewin's 20-2-10s. Trick #1 in the Perfect for the pro series	New	£15
	John Calvert - His Magic and Adventures	Used	£5
	Kenton Knepper Wonder Words	As New. 8 Audio Cassettes in 2 boxed volumes. Volume 1- The Art of Linguistic Description and Volume 2 - The Real Work	£30
	International Magic - The Albert Goshman Lecture	As new	£15
	Houdini Picture Corp - Ted Annemanns Jinx	New	£10
	Steve Cook's Psychic Poker (trick with DVD)	New	£12
	Luis de Matos - Extreme Human Body Stunts for Professionals - 4 DVD Set	Dedicated to Martin Breese and signed by Matos. (I suspect martin did not have a go at any of these 12 stunts). Box slightly crushed at corners.	£120
	The Magic of Tenkai	Produced by magic City	£5
	Wayne Dobson	Dobson’s Choice Vol 1 &2	£10

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MAY 2013