The Art of Modern Conjuring and Drawing Room Entertainment
by None identified
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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Cape Town, South Africa
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Ward, Lock & Co. A little volume of simple drawing-room and sleight of hand tricks. Tricks involving cards, coins, handkerchief, chemical, parlour and hat tricks, mesmeric, magnetic, misellaneous and matches tricks. Nearly 200 hundred illustrations from photographs. Foxing throughout and to all edges. Shaken. Some repairs to page 73. Inscription on title page. 222 Pages. Condition: Fair to poor. Binding: Hardcover. Cloth boards with edge-wear, splitting to the upper and lower spine edges. Fraying at the corners. Dent to front cover causing some splitting of the cloth.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Quagga Books (ZA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 305222
- Title
- The Art of Modern Conjuring and Drawing Room Entertainment
- Author
- None identified
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Ward, Lock & Co
- Bookseller catalogs
- Miscellaneous;
Terms of Sale
Quagga Books
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About the Seller
Quagga Books
Biblio member since 2018
Cape Town
About Quagga Books
We have been in business for over 25 years. Situated in Kalk Bay, Cape Town at the Southern tip of Africa, we deal in all types of collectable books. Over the years we have been featured in Time Magazine, The New York Times, Louis Vuitton Travel Guide, The Guardian and numerous others.
Glossary
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- Fair
- is a worn book that has complete text pages (including those with maps or plates) but may lack endpapers, half-title, etc....
- Title Page
- A page at the front of a book which may contain the title of the book, any subtitles, the authors, contributors, editors, the...
- Poor
- A book with significant wear and faults. A poor condition book is still a reading copy with the full text still readable. Any...
- Spine
- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....
- Cloth
- "Cloth-bound" generally refers to a hardcover book with cloth covering the outside of the book covers. The cloth is stretched...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Shaken
- A hardcover in which the text block is loose, but still attached to the binding.