Secrets of Magic Ancient & Modern-Walter Gibson-1967-Signed-v.FINE-Af

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Secrets of Magic Ancient & Modern-Walter Gibson-1967-Signed-v.FINE-
ITEM:   This is a hard cover book, with dust jacket,
Secrets of Magic Ancient & Moder
, by Walter Gibson, published in 1967, by Grosset and Dunlap.  -Signed-v.FINE
This is signed on the top of the half title page:
"
To Jerry & Ann Fields from
Walter B. Gibson
"
The secrets of ancient miracles, from the Egyptians, to the middle ages,  and modern magic are shared with the reader who is initiated in to the secrets of antiquity. He is told the methods of medieval wizards; and the secrets of modern wonders are disclosed to him .  It is the history of magic told thru the explanation of specific magic effects thru the ages.
From Magicpedia, courtesy of Genii Magazine:
Walter Brown Gibson
(September 12, 1897 - December 6, 1985) was an American author and a professional magician best known for his work on The Shadow. Gibson, under the pen-name Maxwell Grant, wrote Shadow stories at an amazing rate to satisfy public demand during the character's golden age in the 1930s and 1940s.
He was married to Litzka R. Gibson, also a writer, and the couple lived in New York state.
Gibson wrote more than 100 books on magic, psychic phenomena, true crime, mysteries, rope knots, yoga, hypnotism, and games. He served as ghost-writer for books on magic and/or spiritualism by
Harry Houdini
,
Howard Thurston
,
Harry Blackstone
, and
Joseph Dunninger
. Gibson also introduced the famous "Chinese linking rings" trick in America, and invented the
Nickels To Dimes
trick that is still sold in magic stores to this day.
With his wife Litzka R. Gibson, he co-wrote The Complete Illustrated Book of the Psychic Sciences, (Doubleday, 1966), a 404 page book which explains how to practice many popular forms of divination and fortune-telling, including astrology, tasseography, graphology, and numerology. Litzka Gibson, who sometimes used the pen-name Leona Lehman, also wrote her own books on topics as diverse as palmistry, dancing, and personal hygiene.
DATE:  1967
SIZE:  7 1/4 by 10 1/4x inches, 147 pages, hard card covers, with original dust jacket..
COND:  Dust jacket, as seen in the second scanned image has edge wear, small tears, most closed with archival tissue tape.  Covers fully attached, signatures tight, no writing on pages,etc.  All is in otherwise very Fine, almost Mint condition.   Please view the attached image to see the quality of this fine item.
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