Books and Manuscripts

1. The Magician's Own Book, or the Whole Art of Conjuring…
New York: Dick & Fitzgerald, (1857). First edition. 12mo. Publisher's blue-green cloth, stamped in blind and in gilt; all edges trimmed; yellow endpapers; book-plate of amateur magician Walter C. Groff on front paste-down.

2. Good, Arthur
Magical Experiments or Science in Play
Philadelphia: David McKay, 1894. First edition. 8vo. Publisher's pictorial red cloth, stamped in black, blind, and in gilt; all edges trimmed; book-plate of amateur magician Walter C. Groff on front paste-down. 

3. Hopkins, Albert A. (editor)
Magic Stage Illusions and Scientific Diversions Including Trick Photography
New York: Munn & Co., 1897. First edition. 4to. Profusely illustrated. Publisher's green pictorial cloth, stamped in black and red; all edges trimmed; book-plate of amateur magician Walter C. Groff on front paste-down; contemporary ownership signature on front free endpaper.

Condition varies. Lot sold with all faults.