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Auction No 368, Category: Performing Arts

7 Lots (displaying 1 - 7)

Theatre Programmes 1950s to 1970s, large qty in carton, with many Stratford-on-Avon,

Lot: 92

  • Auction Date: Wed 31st May 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £60
SOLD £20
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Theatre Programmes 1950s to 1970s, large qty in carton, with many Stratford-on-Avon, plus Royal Court and various others; also some issues of Plays and Players, coloured plates from children’s books, and other items. VG/VF (7 kilos)

Louis Nikola "The Nikola Card System", Harry Leate, 1927, printed wraps; Hoffman "Tricks with Cards"

Lot: 96

  • Auction Date: Wed 31st May 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £40
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Louis Nikola The Nikola Card System, Harry Leate, 1927, printed wraps; Hoffman Tricks with Cards, Routledge c.1925; and other softbacks on Card Magic 1930s to 1950s, fair to fine. (11)

Softback publications on Magic and Conjuring 1930s to 1950s, all in original printed wraps,

Lot: 97

  • Auction Date: Wed 31st May 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £60
SOLD £56
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Softback publications on Magic and Conjuring 1930s to 1950s, all in original printed wraps, good to VF (25)

Professor Hoffmann "Modern Magic", Routledge, 1901, pictorial cloth, new endpapers, foxing to prelims,

Lot: 98

  • Auction Date: Wed 31st May 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £40 - £50
SOLD £34
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Professor Hoffmann Modern Magic, Routledge, 1901, pictorial cloth, new endpapers, foxing to prelims, clean text, 521pp; Will Goldston Great Tricks Revealed, 1935, 1st Edn, signed by the author; and two related works. Fair to fine. (4)

                                                            

Nevil Maskelyne and David Devant "Our Magic", Routledge, [1912], pictorial cloth, some creasing lower right,

Lot: 99

  • Auction Date: Wed 31st May 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £70 - £90
SOLD £72
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Nevil Maskelyne and David Devant Our Magic, Routledge, [1912], pictorial cloth, some creasing lower right, spine a little faded; fine internally, b/w portraits of both magicians. 487pp + prelims; Okito Quality Magic, 1921, pictorial boards, VG; Harry Lorayne Close-Up Card Magic, 1962,1st Edn in repaired d/jkt; and 3 others. Fair to Fine (6)

Farelli "Convincing Coin Magic", 1946; Lewis Ganson "The Dai Vernon Book of Magic", n.d.

Lot: 101

  • Auction Date: Wed 31st May 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £50 - £60
SOLD £56
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Farelli Convincing Coin Magic, 1946; Lewis Ganson The Dai Vernon Book of Magic, n.d. , and Dai Vernon’s Tribute to Nate Leipzig, in d/jkt, both published Harry Stanley; Trevor Hall Testament of R.W.Hull,c.1950, signed by the author; and 4 related titles; all illustrated h/bks, good/VF (8)

E.H. Bostock "Menageries, Circuses and Theatres", Chapman & Hall, 1927, original gilt cloth

Lot: 103

  • Auction Date: Wed 31st May 2017 12:00 BST (Ended)
  • Est: £20 - £30
SOLD £15
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E.H. Bostock Menageries, Circuses and Theatres, Chapman & Hall, 1927, original gilt cloth faded and slightly marked; light browning to endpapers o/w fine internally; 32 plates. 305pp