Sensational Tales of Mystery Men.
London: Will Goldston, 1929. First Edition, First Impression. Hardcover. Octavo. 324pp. Red cloth lettered in black on spine & front board. B/w frontisportrait & plates (including several tipped-in). Entertaining accounts of various personalities, mostly stage magicians such as Dante, Harry Houdini, Chung Ling Soo, Frank Van Hoven , Carl Hertz and John Nevil Maskelyne. From the collection of Dr. M. H. Coleman, with his ex-libris seal blind-stamped on half title-page. Spine leaned, cloth a bit darkened at spine and edges of boards, spine ends and corners bruised and lightly rubbed, page-edges lightly browned, gutter of frontis slightly pulled, ink stamped number "10" on title-page. Overall a clean, solid VG copy in shabby dust jacket (dust jacket discolored at spine and inner flaps, small chips from top of spine & tops of fold-ins, chips & a few tears at edges, fresh paper glued to verso to repair and reinforce spine and folds, not clipped). Item #54117
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