TALES OF MAGIC AND MYSTERY. Numbers 1-5 [all published, bound volume]
by TALES OF MAGIC AND MYSTERY. December 1927 - April 1928 (Volume 1, numbers 1 - 5). [Walter B. Gibson, editor]
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Camden, NJ: Personal Arts Company, Publishers, 1927-1928. Issues slightly trimmed for binding, otherwise quite fine with little tanning to text paper, mostly cream colored. At the base of the spine is stamped "Dunninger Collection." A lovely presentation. (31906). Octavo, five issues, pictorial wrappers bound in blue boards with gold stamping to spine. A bound volume of all five issues that were noted magician Joseph Dunningers copy, with his signed name and also inscribed and signed by editor/author Walter Gibson to Joe Dunninger. Gibson wrote several books about magic for Dunninger, they were lifelong friends. This is likely a presentation volume to Dunninger. Tales of Magic and Mystery was a short lived magazine which published stories and articles about magic and the occult, as well as some short fiction. The March, 1928 issue published the H. P. Lovecraft short story "Cool Air." Other authors of fiction include Frank Owen, Miriam Allen de Ford, Archie Binns, Robert Leslie Bellem and others. Gibson wrote most non-fiction material under his own name and also using the pseudonyms, Alfred Maurice and Bernard Perry.
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- John W. Knott, Jr., Bookseller, ABAA/ILAB (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 31906
- Title
- TALES OF MAGIC AND MYSTERY. Numbers 1-5 [all published, bound volume]
- Author
- TALES OF MAGIC AND MYSTERY. December 1927 - April 1928 (Volume 1, numbers 1 - 5). [Walter B. Gibson, editor]
- Book Condition
- Used - Issues slightly trimmed for binding, otherwise quite fine with little tanning to text paper, mostly cream colored. At the base o
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- 1
- Publisher
- Personal Arts Company, Publishers
- Place of Publication
- Camden, NJ
- Date Published
- 1927-1928
- Keywords
- Pulp
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