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Description

Heading: (Magic)
Author:
Title: Specialties for Secret Societies: Paraphernalia, supplies, masks, beards, wigs, etc.; Comical costumes. Catalog No. 134
Place Published: Columbus, OH
Publisher:M.C. Lilley & Co.
Date Published: 1890s
Description:

56 pp. Illustrated from photographs, sketches, etc. 23x15.5 cm (9x6"), original pictorial wrappers.

Rare catalogue of items suitable for comical and magical performances, with masks, costumes, odd devices (electric carpet, canvas tunnel, "saw mill agonizer," etc.), a guillotine, trick water cooler, and many more amusements. OCLC/WorldCat lists only one copy, at the University of Texas Austin, plus an 80-page version, evidently a few years later, at the Ohio History Connection.

Condition

Some light creasing and wear to wrappers; very good.

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Rare catalogue of Magic and devices

Name: Rare catalogue of Magic and devices
SKU: 48188382
Price: 600 USD
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