Oct 26, 2006 - Sale 2090

Sale 2090 - Lot 10

Price Realized: $ 120
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
ANONYMOUS. The Magician's Own Book, or the Whole Art of Conjuring. Frontispiece, engraved half-title, numerous illustrations. Large 12mo (in 4s and 8s), original gilt-pictorial cloth, very light wear at extremities; scattered foxing, as usual. With 10 pages of undated Dick & Fitzgerald ads at the rear. Toole Stott 481. New York: Dick and Fitzgerald, (1857).
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With an interesting note laid in (possibly by Adolphe Blind or Charles De Vere) regarding the authorship of the book, "Le présent ouvrage est attribué a M. M. Arnold et Cahill. M. E. F. Rybolt de Los Angeles écrit à ce sujet, en date du 26 Juine 1919: Arnold & Cahill's 'The Magician's Own Book' & 'The Sociable' are both the editions usually known as 'Anonymous.' However, through investigation at the Library of Congress, at Washington, I have learned that these books were written by Arnold & Cahill."