Lewis angelo professor hoffmann (55 resultados)

paperback. Condición: Very Good. Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include companion materials, and may have some shelf wear or limited writing. We ship orders daily and Customer Service is our top priority.

paperback. Condición: Good. Ex-library copy. The page edge is tanned. The copy shows minor external wear, but is otherwise in clean condition.

Condición: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Trade Paperback. Condición: New. Date is approximate. A modern reprint of the original 1876 classic. New, unread paperback copy. A classic magic textbook which has been continuously in print since its first publication in 1876.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. Later Magic: With New Miscellaneous Tricks and Recollections of Hartz the Wizard. HOFFMANN, Professor (Angelo John Lewis). Routledge and Kegan Paul Ltd. no pub date stated. ex-library rebound hardcover, no dust jacket with the usual library stamps/marks/card pocket, text clean/unmarked—15.00.…

Paperback. Condición: Very Good+. in illustrated Wraps. Softcover 1978 Dover 563 pages. Very Good+, in illustrated wraps. Just a touch of shelf/edge wear to covers. No notes or writing-all pages are bright, clean and crisp. ISBN-0486236234. Over a century after its publication, Professor Hoffman's Modern Magic remains a cornerstone of the art, a classic which belongs in the library of every professional and amateur magician. it was the first book in English to really explain how to do the classic effects of magic, establishing certain fundamentals of performance which are as valid today as they were when Professor Hoffman wrote them down. Takes the student of magic through the entire repertoire of stage magic, from simple card tricks, coin tricks, tricks with watches, tricks with rings, tricks with handkerchiefs, tricks with dominoes and dice, tricks using cups and balls and hat tricks to elaborate illusions involving the construction of complicated machinery such as automata, floating tables and various traps. Several hundred tricks are explained, 332 line-cut illustrations show hand positions. Unabridged. LOC SSS-06.…

softcover. Condición: good. Good to Very good condition. Minor wear. Binding tight, pages clean. Pictures available upon request. . nd.

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good.

Paperback. Condición: Like New. FIRST THUS. First Edition Thus, First Printing. Not price-clipped. Published by Dover Publications, 1978. Octavo. Paperback. Book is like new. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Sag Harbor, New York.…

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. Reprint edition with new Introduction by Charles Reynolds. Very clean throughout with crease to cover and bumps to corners. Interior is bright and clear, text and many illustrations are excellent. Binding is tight and strong.

Full title - TRICKS WITH CARDS CONTAINING EXPLANATIONS OF THE GENERAL PRINCIPLES OF SLEIGHT-OF-HAND APPLICABLE TO CARD-TRICKS; OF CARD-TRICKS WITH ORDINARY CARDS, AND NOT REQUIRING SLEIGHT-OF-HAND; OF TRICKS INVOLVING SLEIGHT-OF-HAND, OR THE USE OF SPECIALLY-PREPARED CARDS. BT PROFESSOR HOFFMANN. ILLUSTRATED. 106, [3] pages. Paperback: H 18.4cm x L 12.3cm. Paper covers toned and soiled with edge chips and creased corners. Interior leaves toned as is typical for the lesser paper stock utilized by contemporary pulp publishers like Wehman Bros.; brittleness of leaves contributed to some chipped corners and short margin tears; some pencil marks at margins. Binding is still firm. No publishing date provided but spine gives price as thirty cents which would seem to be a price suited for 1910-1920 at the earliest. …

Trade Paperback. Condición: Very Good. Reprint. Facsimile reprint of the 1893 original. Good with some edge wear to cover including a tiny piece out of top corner. No markings. Minimal spine wear.

Soft cover. Condición: Good. No Jacket. pp xx 554. Illustrated with black and white drawings and diagrams. Pictorial card covers with small areas of loss at top of spine and front spine corner. Some mild black mould marks to top of prelims and last pages . Otherwise a Clean Tight Copy. May require extra overseas airmail shipping.…

Paperback. Condición: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Soft cover. Condición: Very Good. Paperback is an unabridged and unaltered republication of "Later Magic" (1903). Front cover has crease and minor edge bumps. Very clean throughout with excellent text and illustrations. Page 361 has an inch long crack to fore edge margin (does not affect text). Edges are generally clean. Binding is tight and strong. …

Condición: fair. Green cloth hard cover with white and red lettering. Illustrated, 124 pages. Significant rubbing to lettering on front cover. First gathering including title page detached with adhesive residue from previously being taped into the binding. Else pages somewhat toned but clean. Fair condition overall.…

Paperback. Condición: Very Good+. One page once creased at top tip; Otherwise as new; 7.0 X 4.7 X 0.9 inches; 394 pages.

Trade Paperback. Condición: As New. 1st Edition. One of approximately 52 copies issued. As new. With a tipped-in original Goodall playing card as issued. 168 page trade paperback. Illustrated with many reproductions in colour.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fair. Very good unmarked copy in rather worn dustjacket. **PLEASE NOTE** that there may be a surcharge to pay for international postage (at cost) on this item: we'll advise you of the amount when you order, and you will have the option of accepting or cancelling at that point.…

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. 4th Edition. A 4th edition of a book first published in 1892 (Jessel ref. 1082 indicates 1891 but an 1892 copy is clearly a 1st edition). Olive covers with title to front in red and gilt dec to the spine; a game is illustrated in red and black on the cover. Lists 63 variant games. A very good clean, tight copy.…

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. No Jacket. 5th or later Edition. No edition stated, Nd. c. 1930's. Illustrated adverts at the end. All edges gilt. Publishers reversed calf with bezique stamped on the front cover, some light rubbing, else very good copy. illustrated advertisments at the end. (ilustrador). …

Cloth. Condición: Good. xii, 504pp + 24pp publisher's catalogue. Front hinge repaired. Maroon cloth w gold lettering on spine. Moderate wear to corners, surface scuff to head, tail and joints. Binding is sound. Wax stain on back board. Small octavo: 190 x 136mm. Originally published 1879 in an illustrated binding with gold stamping, but based on the books listed in the publisher's catalogue and the plain binding, this edition dates between 1904-09. Professor Louis Hoffmann, whom Houdini described as "the Brightest Star in the Firmament of Magical Literature," was the pseudonym for Angelo John Lewis who was, by profession, a barrister (Reynolds, Modern Magic, 1976).…

Paperbound. Condición: Very Good+. First Edition. About fine with very slight, almost inevitable dust soiling to white covers. Plastic comb bound, 8.5" x 11". 102 pages. Illustrated with reproductions of some rare ephemeral writings by Professor Hoffmann (Angelo J. Lewis) The bibliography is primarily a catalog of the author's personal collection. Printed via offset press from dot matrix computer typesetting.…

Trade Paperback. Condición: Very Good+. Very good plus, unread, still in publishers plastic bag. Flat spine with no cracks or creasing. A classic magic textbook which has been almost continuously in print since its first publication in 1904. Despite what some websites say, this is NOT a print on demand copy.…

Part book only card wrap covers (soft back). 8vo. 7½'' x 5¼''. Contains pp 215-345 with illustrations. Member of the P.B.F.A. MAGIC & CONJURING.

Soft cover. Condición: Good. First Edition. Signature of magician Leo Behnke on inside front cover, with a detached ownership label laid in. Shading where label was attached to inside rear cover. Has a few pencil notations in corner of first page. Booklet has typical age-darkening to cover and paper. Some bends and creasing. Overall though, good condition. A posthumously published printed pamphlet in stiff printed paper wrappers. The effects were devised by Medrington and apparently written, edited, and in some cases improved by Hoffmann. Eight pages.…

Maroon hardback cloth cover. Condición: Good. First Edition. G: in good condition without dust jacket. Cover rubbed and marked. Chipping and fading to spine. Edge-wear. Inner hinge cracking. Browning to pages. Sporadic foxing. 200mm x 150mm (8" x 6"). xv, 628pp. B/w illustrations.

Condición: Very Good. Number 157 of a limited edition of 200 copies. Black cloth with gilt stamping on the spine, illustrated, 223 pages. Very good condition.

Sm. Slim 8vo. [vi] + 121pp. + [i] blank. 92 figures. Advert. e.ps., sl. shaken, original orange and cream coloured pictorial boards, lightly soiled and rubbed, corners rubbed, joints tender, spine sl. cracked and worn with loss. US$52.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. 1st Edition. Good with a few stains to pictorial cloth and some fading to cloth along spine and rounding to corners. Old English price in pencil on flyleaf, otherwise no markings and no bookplate. Leaf 107/108 and adjacent pages have some stains. Cloth color is a light reddish brown. H.L. Schindler (ilustrador).…