Madison, WI: John Snyder, Jr., 1941. Hardcover. First Edition. 32 pp. 8vo. Green cloth covered boards with gold embossed titling to spine set into blind embossed frame. Very light rubbing to base of spine, very clean within. Instructional piece of nine tricks with illustrative drawings by Nelson Hahne. Includes the following tricks: The Spirit of the Cobra, The Atomic Penny, Think Stop, Reversed Misdirection, Centerise, Flipfan, Finger Stand, Poker Player's Dream, and No-Prep.
Berger (1893-1981) was a midwest magician who grew up in Madison, Wisconsin, as Benjamin Goldenberger. By the early 1940s he had shortened his last name to Berger, by the latter part of that decade was spelling it as Bergor, which he settled on until his death in 1981. Bergor and his wife..... More

Philadelphia, PA: David McKay, Publisher, 1894. Hardcover. First Edition. First American Edition. 329 pp. 8vo. Light grayish-pink decorative cloth binding with embossed titling in gold and black, slight wear and scuffing, spine has minor sunning. Interior clean and crisp with a penciled initial on the upper left corner of the front pastedown. Laid in is a 15 pp magic catalog, "Complete Manual for Adams' Real Magic Sets" printed on very low quality paper and in tenuous condition.
A very interesting early book on table magic focused on easy science experiments or demonstrations. Very Good. More

New York: Swann Galleries, 2005-2007. Wraps. First Edition. First Printing. 162, 170, 187 pp. 4to. Light wear and scuffing but very clean with no markings within. Absentee bid sheets removed from Volumes I and II. Prices realized for each auction laid into each volume.
Christian Fechner (1944-2008) was one of the premiere collectors of magic memorabilia. This three part sale, over three years, was one of the largest of its kind and was completed a year before Fechner's death at the age of 64. Very Good. More