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Dante
by Dante [The Magician]; Edna J. Hansen
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- vg
- Seller
-
Santa Monica, California, United States
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Prague: K. Kriz, n/d. Softcover. vg. Balzar. Oblong folio. Unpaginated (58pp). Original wraps illustrated in vibrant colors protected by mylar jacket. Slight water staining and rippling to some pages. Minor creasing to parts of edges on wraps. Small part on top right corner on foreword page missing. Inside of front wrapper illustrated with a map ("Dante put magic on the map"), verso of rear wrapper with photomontage of various monuments and scenes from around the world with Dante and his signature in facsimile in center of the plate. Fascinating pictorial account of a world tour of the Danish magician Harry August Jansen aka Dante the Magician. Profusely illustrated with reproductions of b/w photographs by Balzar tinted in green. Edited and compiled by Edna H. Jansen. With an article on Dante by Reginald Drake. Overall in very good condition.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8378
- Title
- Dante
- Author
- Dante [The Magician]; Edna J. Hansen
- Illustrator
- Balzar
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - vg
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- Publisher
- K. Kriz
- Place of Publication
- Prague
- Date Published
- n/d
- Keywords
- theatre , Magicians, american , performanc art, illusionist, escape artist, conjuror
Terms of Sale
Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
Biblio member since 2009
Santa Monica, California
About Eric Chaim Kline - Bookseller
We offer a broad selection of rare, out-of-print and antiquarian books with an emphasis on photography, architecture, art, Judaica, Bibles, Weimar Germany and the Third Reich, modernism, Olympic Games, erotica and foreign-language works, especially German, Hebrew, Polish and Yiddish. We also provide appraisal, auction, consulting and rental services.
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.
- 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...
- Folio
- A folio usually indicates a large book size of 15" in height or larger when used in the context of a book description. Further,...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- Plate
- Full page illustration or photograph. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e.,...
- Facsimile
- An exact copy of an original work. In books, it refers to a copy or reproduction, as accurate as possible, of an original...
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