ALTAISKY, M.; GEORGIYEV, V.

The Philosophical Views of Mao Tse-Tung; A Critical Analysis

Moscow, USSR, Progress Publishers NONE. 1971. (Mass market paperback) Very good. 177pp. 8vo. Brown heavy paper wrappers. Describes the origin and essence of Mao Tse-Tung's philosophical views. Clean and bright.

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Book number: 129600

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Keywords: Mao Tse-Tung, Mao Zedong, Maoist Philosophy, Philosophy

ARONSON, SIMON

Art Decko; Compositions with Cards

Chicago, Illinois, Self Published NONE. 2014. (hardcover) Fine in fine dust jacket. 323+. 4to. The largest collection of work from Aronson, the American magician / lawyer best noted for the 'Aronson stack' and the trick of 'Shuffle-Bored'. Introduction by David H. Finkelstein. Includes sections on Techniques, On the Spot, Two-faced, Totals, Birthdays, Memorized Decks, Essen-Tricks, Predictions. Fine copy in fine dust jacket.

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Book number: 129615

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Keywords: Magic, Card Tricks, Collectible Books, Curiosities, Esoterica, Magic, Magic Tricks

BALFOUR, IAN

Famous Diamonds

London, UK, Collins. (ISBN: 0 00 412246 1). 1987. (hardcover) Very good in very good dust jacket. 224pp. 4to. Jacket is price clipped, shows light rubbing, with some light creasing, small tears to the lower rear panel. Black boards, silver title stamped to spine. There is a book platepasted to the front free endpaper; otherwise a clean, tight, bright, solid copy with colour, as well as black and white photographs. The stories of the world's best known diamonds, their histories, and their associated characters, be those owners, royalty, business people, bankers, brokers, smugglers, thieves, swindlers, and / or murderers.

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Book number: 126936

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Keywords: Jewels, Curiosities, Diamonds, Esoterica, Jewels 0004122461

BARBEAU, MARIUS

Alouette!

Montreal, Les Editions Lumen. 1946, 1st thus. (Mass market paperback) Good. 216+. Cover shaken.

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Book number: 115908

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Keywords: Folklore, Canada, Folksongs, Quebec

BARNES, AL G.

Master Showman

London, Jonathan Cape. 1938, 1st edition. (Cloth) Very good plus in very good dust jacket. 288pp. Frontispiece, illus. - plates. Unclipped wrapper shows general wear, closed tears, soiling, darkening to spine, remaining unchipped and on the whole delightful. Some spotting to fore edges.

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Book number: 109952

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Keywords: Circus Or Fair

BARRY, DICK

Magic with Class

San Clemente, Ca, Published by the Author. 1993, 1st edition. (Mass market paperback) Fine. 131pp. 8vo. Coilbound. Pictorial top cover, grey bottom cover. Inscribed by Dick Barry on the verso-top cover. "Special Magic Props" present in pouch at rear. B&W photos, illus. Illustrated by Dick Barry and Jim Kahlert. Compiled and Edited by Jim Kahlert.

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Book number: 118508

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Keywords: Magic, Esoterica, Illusions and Tricks

BENT, MIKE

Mike Bent's Zero Gravity; The Ultimate Close-Up Levitation

Belmont, Ma, Published by the Author. 1997, 1st edition. (Mass market paperback) Fine. 7, +appendixes. 4to. White wrappers, top wrapper printed; stapled. Signed and numbered by the author on the title page. B&W photos.

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Book number: 118513

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Keywords: Illusions and Tricks, Magic

BOYER, WALTER; BUFFINGTON, ALBERT F.; YODER, DON (EDITOR)

Songs Along the Mahantongo; Pennsylvania Dutch Folksongs

Hatboro, Penn. Folklore Associates. 1964, 2nd edition. (Cloth) Near fine in very good plus dust jacket. 231pp. Very light shelf wear to wrappers.

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Book number: 109885

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Keywords: Folklore, Folk Music

CREIGHTON, HELEN

A Folk Tale Journey Through the Maritimes

Wreck Cove, Breton Books. (ISBN: 1-895415-28-4). 1993, 1st thus. (Mass market paperback) As new. xi, 249pp. A new selection of folktales collected by Creighton; edited by Michael Taft and Ronal Caplan.

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Book number: 116384

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Keywords: Folklore, Canada, Canadian Folklore, Martitimes 1895415284

THE EQUINOX; CROWLEY, ALEISTER

The Equinox; The Official Organ of the A/A/; The Review of Scientific Illusminism; Vol. I, No. VI (September Mcmxi O.S.

London, UK, Wieland & Co. NONE. 1911. (hardcover) Very good, no dust jacket. xiv + 170 + vi + 124 + x (Advertisements). 8vo. VERY SCARCE. Bound in decorated paper boards; the upper cover has the Equinox Coat of Arms design. Brown cloth spine with printed paper title label. The spine is worn and faded, the title block lightly chipped, although there is only one letter (X) of the text absent; remarkably intact. The Equinox was the first important effort to publish and thereby make available the facts of occult science and to write about the subject from academic and scientific perspectives. This edition includes the contributions of Aleistar Crowley, long thought by many to have been the editor; Poems for Jane Cheron, the Scorpion, the Big Stick, and the Rites of Eleusis (Supplement) are included. The work of Ethel Archer, Francis Bendick, Martial Nay, Victor J.I. Neuburg, John Yarker, E Whineray also included.There is an unusual paste-down book plate to the inside front cover, and it is starting, lightly, at the inside front hinge. The A/A/ was founded by Crowley and the Equinox was first published in 1909. The last issue was published in 1998. The first volume of ten numbers (of which this is number 6) published between 1909 and 1913, and in runs of only 1,000 copies for the early numbers, and probably only 500 in the later numbers. Internally clean and bright, extraordinarily so. The Method of Science - the Aim of Religion.

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Book number: 127806

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Keywords: Magick, Aleister Crowley, Magick, Occult, Sorcery

DALAL, SAM

Magic with an ESP Deck

Published by the Author. 1995, 3rd Revised and Enlarged Edition. (Mass market paperback) Fine. 22pp. 4to. White printed card wrappers.

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Book number: 118520

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Keywords: Magic, Esoterica, Illusions and Tricks, Psychic

DALAL, SAM (EDITOR)

Swami and Mantra

Washington, D.C. Kaufman and Company. 1997. (hardcover) Fine in fine dust jacket. xviii, each issue paginated. 4to. Brown fabricoid boards; lettering in gold to spine. Dust jacket unblemished. Evergreen EPs. Internally bright and clean, virtually unread. Reprints of the original magazines "Swami" and "Mantra". "Swami: A Monthly Magazine of Exotic Mysteries" Issue 1, Jan. 1972 - Issue 36, Dec. 1974; "Mantra: Magic Monthly" Issue 1, Apr. 1975 - Issue 28, Jul. 1977.

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Book number: 118484

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Keywords: Magic, Esoterica, Mysticism

DODD, HELEN; RICHARDS, ELLEN H. [INTRODUCTION]

The Healthful Farmhouse

Boston, Massachusetts, Whitcomb & Barrows. 1906, 2nd edition. (hardcover) Near fine, no dust jacket. x. 69pp. 12mo. Ex-lib. Copy. Library stamp to front paste down and to rear free e.p. Green cloth over boards, with slight shelf wear, as expected and white lettering to front cover. Frontispiececlean; tissue is intact and unmarked. A Near Fine copy.

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Book number: 123452

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Keywords: Curiosities, Domestic Science, Farming, Home Economics, Home Maintenance

DUNNINGER, JOSEPH

Dunninger's Book of Magic

New York, Bonanza Books. (ISBN: 0-517-29306-4). 1979. (hardcover) Good to very good in fair dust jacket. 115pp. 4to. Red and blue cloth boards; lettering in blue to spine. Dust jacket worn; several closed tears at edges, all repaired on verso with tape; price clipped. Internally tight and clean. Profusely illustrated with sketches, adverts, and B&W photos.

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Book number: 118537

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Keywords: Magic, Esoterica 0517293064

DUNNINGER, JOSEPH

Dunninger's Complete Encyclopedia of Magic

London, U.K. Spring Books, the Hamlyn Group Limited. [no date]. (hardcover) Very good in good dust jacket. 288pp. Folio. DJ shows signs of wear at fore-edges, some colour-bleeding from the book to the inside. That said all information intact. Book is in good condition with just a tiny amout of the same colour bleeding as to the DJ to the lower fore-edge, else tight and clean.

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Book number: 122665

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Keywords: Curiosities, Magic