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SECRETS OF MY MAGIC: In Which Are Disclosed for the First Time the Secrets of Some of the Greatest Illusions of This Master of the Art of Magic. With Contributions by Thirty Other Famous Magicians, Including Oswald Williams - Horace Goldin - Cecil Lyle. With 57 Illustrations.
by Devant, David
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London: Hutchinson & Co., (1936). First edition. Hardcover. Covers moderately faded, some foxing to text, else very good. 288 pp. + publisher's 32-page catalog at rear; frontispiece and 14 full-page plates from photographsm many illustrations in the text; octavo, maroon cloth with gilt spine title.
English stage magician David Devant (1868-1941) was, according to Milbourne Christopher in his Panorama of Magic "the master performer of his time."
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- SECRETS OF MY MAGIC: In Which Are Disclosed for the First Time the Secrets of Some of the Greatest Illusions of This Master of the Art of Magic. With Contributions by Thirty Other Famous Magicians, Including Oswald Williams - Horace Goldin - Cecil Lyle. With 57 Illustrations.
- Author
- Devant, David
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Covers moderately faded, some foxing to text, else very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Hutchinson & Co.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- (1936)
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