Cailliet, Emile.
The Themes of Magic in Nineteenth Century French Fiction:
(Porcupine Press, rpt., 1980).
English translation by Lorraine Havens. Hardback. Fine. xii + 228pp. Order No. NSBK-A5806
Keywords: 0879915013, magic, literature, literary, French, fiction, novels, novelists, nineteenth century, Victorian, France, history, necromancy, merveilleux, occultism, supernatural, animal magnetism, spiritualism, sorcery, peasants, exotic, savages, fairy tales
Price £8.00.
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Lamb, Geoffrey.
Mental Magic Tricks:
(Thomas Nelson, 2nd printing, 1973).
Hardback. Ex library with usual library stamps and stickers, split internally at spine front & back. Shakey. A working copy in torn, worn dw. 89pp. Order No. NSBK-A13929
Keywords: 0840763328, magic tricks, mentalism, mental, magicians, sleight of hand, history, conjuring
Price £12.00.
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Harris, Mollie.
All Kinds of Magic:
(OUP, 1995).
Charming reminiscences of Cotswold life. The author is Martha Woodford of "the Archers". Paperback. Ex lib, well-used, covers creased, a good working copy. ix + 387pp. Order No. NSBK-C3178
Keywords: 0192824139, Cotswold, rural life, country, countryside, Ducklington, Oxfordshire, Cotswolds, Britain, British, England, English, history
Price £4.50.
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Stowell, Sheila.
A Stage of their Own: Feminist Playwrights of the Suffrage Era
(MUP, 1992).
Hardback. Very good in slightly creased dustwrapper. vi + 170pp. Order No. NSBK-C200
Keywords: 0719036771, suffrage, suffragette, suffragist, feminist, feminism, playwright, drama, theatre, women writers, woman writer, Women's Movement, Edwardian, women's history, plays, New Woman, suffragettes, woman suffrage, women's suffrage
Price £28.00.
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Davy, M. J. B.
Henson and Stringfellow: Their Work in Aeronautics: The History of a Stage in the Development of Mechanical Flight, 1840-1868
(HNSO, 1931).
Hardback. Boards faded, otherwise a very good copy. 114pp. Order No. NSBK-A11117
Keywords: B000HBZSUY, aeronautics, flight, aviation, aeroplanes, planes, transport, mechanical flight, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th, Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, William Samuel Henson, John Stringfellow
Price £22.00.
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Profumo, David and Swift, Graham, eds.
The Magic Wheel:
(Picador, 1985).
Paperback. Corner of front cover bent, otherwise very good. 460pp. Order No. NSBK-A10831
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Ormsby, Waterman L.
The Butterfield Overland Mail: Only Through Passenger on the First Westbound Stage
(Huntington, rpt, 1991).
Paperback. Light edge-wear, otherwise very good. xv + 179pp. Order No. NSBK-A14935
Keywords: 0873280954, history, USA, America, United States of America, Overland Mail Company, travel, adventure, American West, journalism
Price £7.99.
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Tomalin, Claire.
Mrs Jordan's Profession: The Story of a Great Actress and a Future King
(Penguin, rpt., 1995).
Paperback. Spine creased, otherwise very good. xx + 422pp. Order No. NSBK-C10026
Keywords: 0140159231, actresses, actress, actors, drama, theatres, theatrical, Mrs Jordan, women's history, plays, stage, William IV, Dora Jordan, eighteenth, nineteenth, century, courts, royalty, monarchs, monarchy, kings, Britain, British, England, English, biography, biographies, woman, biographical, lives, life history, life histories
Price £3.99.
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Gilbert, W. Stephen.
Fight and Kick and Bite: The Life and Work of Dennis Potter
(Hodder & Stoughton, 1995).
Illustrated with black and white photographs. Hardback. Near fine in dustwrapper. xvi + 382pp. Order No. NSBK-A10136
Keywords: 0340640472, Dennis Potter, life, lives, playwrights, stage, theatres, literature, twentieth century, 20th, dramatists, writers, Britain, British, England, English, history
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De Hempsey, Sidney.
Practical Punch and Judy:
(Arcady Press [John Alexander], Reprint, 2004).
This useful guide to starting Punch and Judy first appeared in 1953 as a series of articles published in the monthly magic magazine "The Wizard", which is now, sadly, defunct. Reprinted 2004. Booklet. Fine. 28pp. Order No. NSBK-F12597
Keywords: Britain, British, England, English, history, United Kingdom, UK, Victorian, Victorian period, nineteenth century, 19th, Punch and Judy, puppets, puppet, puppetry, theatre, marionette, marionettes, puppeteer, puppetteer, puppet master, professor, professors, hand puppet, hand puppets, scripts, script, show, seaside, sea side, humour, humor, street theatre, street theatres, street entertainment, social history, social historian, traveller, travellers, magic, illusions, conjuring, history, showmen, showman, shows, show, Sidney De Hempsey, Sidney de Hempsey's, booklet
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