This "Hand Cut -and- Wood Cut" Print was produced by artist Robert Allen. A great contrast of black with one other color. Print is on "Fine Art Paper" and measures approx. 11"x16".

What’s offered here is called an "Artist Proof". These are what the artist would produce, towards the very end of their work, before making the ‘limited signed and numbered’ prints. Generally, there weren’t very many of these APs produced and certainly fewer than the numbered, limited edition commercially produced.

It is also SIGNED BY THE ARTIST, along the bottom. This reads: "Artist Proof"  - "Robert Allen".

3579-5669) Some Photos From The GERALD KOSKY SCRAPBOOK

I was contacted by a person who'd looked at my WebSite and wanted to purchase certain photos from the Gerald Kosky ScrapBook I'd been offering.

Since the ScrapBook hadn't sold in tact, I've decided to go ahead and sell the photos, thus breaking up the ScrapBook.

Having come from the Gerald Kosky ScrapBook, there are some tape and page remnants on the backside.

(a) This offering is for 8"x10" group shot photo.

GERALD KOSKY
WILLIAM TAYLOR
ADE DUVAL
HARRY MENDOZA
CHARLES "Think-A-Drink" HOFFMAN
-and-
Hollywood movie actor:
ADOLPH MENJOU

According to David Chavert, this was a 1932 magic party honoring Duval in Hollywood.

AND, speaking of David Chavert, if you attended the recently 2009 Los Angeles Conference on Magic History, David was there with his published book about Ade Duval

The photo, offered here, was used in David's book, so for one of you who purchased the book, here's your chance to own one of the original photographs from it. - $75.00

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(b) This offering is for the three photos:
The SHIMADAs -and- The LARSENs
(and many others)

Each photo measure 3"x4 1/4".

The photos appear to be a magic convention with mostly Japanese guest.
Perhaps held in Japan.

The top photo shows a group of 16 people standing on stage together.

I see Mr. and Mrs. Shimada and Mr. and Mrs. Bill Larsen, Jr.

The bottom two photos show banquet tables with guests seated.

On the backside of one photo is stamped:

If you can identify any of the others, please email and let me know. - $75.00/each

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b)

c)

(Card box and squared-up deck, both sides)

(Four different fans from backside of deck)

(Three different fans from front side of deck)

These are as new as the day they were issued.

Photo (29 1/4"x10") has been shrink wrapped onto a piece of foam core - $100.00

Tony Slydini - Jack Gwynne - Dorny - H. Adrian Smith - Eugene Bernstein - Clarke C. Crandall - Joe Berg - Theo. (Okito) Bamberg - Sam Berland - Arthur H. Buckley - Bert Allerton - Paul le Paul.

3586-8469) CABOT ST. CINEMA THEATRE, (Beverly, Massachusetts) style newspaper for February 18, 1985.

Tons of Le Grand David information spread through out the 16 pages.

Including the First Ever - "Houdini Awards".  - $10.00

3587-8795) Incidents in My Life by D.D. Home

Daniel Dunglas Home was born 1833 in Scotland.

As Home tells his story, he experienced occult revelations at an early age, and in this teens attracted the rapping's of spirits, which he soon translated into communication. As the rapping's and other phenomena attending him became known, he found himself, almost involuntarily, launched into a extraordinary career as a medium. Home's never solicited or accepted money for his labors. This helped with his credibility and thus to the credibility of the cause. Houdini published his own explanation for Home's most famous manifestations in this book, "A Magician Among The Spirits".

Introduction - Early Life: I become a Medium - Before the World - Further Manifestations in America - In England - At Florence, Naple, Rome and Paris - In America: The Pressgang - 1857-8 France, Italy, and Russia ~ Marriage - Russia, Paris and England - The "Cornhill" and other Narratives - Miraculous Preservation. France and England - A Diary and Letter - In Memoriam.

Introduction by William McDougall.

This book is one of the classics accounts of telepathy in psychic literature. From her childhood, Upton Sinclair's wife (Mary Craig Sinclair) had been aware of her ability to sense things she hadn't yet learned. The Sinclair's began conducting a series of experiments to test Craig's (as she was called) abilities, and from the experiments came this book. For many readers, the most fascinating part of this book will be Craig's own account of the precise way in which she prepared herself to "receive" the messages. Her descriptions amount to step-by-step instructions.

The content pages have been reproduced, below, for ease in reading -and- there's an index in the rear of the book.

Original copyright 1915. This Time/Life edition published in 1992 and contains 221pages.

The content page has been reproduced, below, for ease in reading -and- there's an index in the rear of the book.

This offering is a descriptive analysis, in popular terms, of a subject that has fascinated the world since ancient people started receiving revelations from mysterious sources they called the Gods. This is the first of five books the author would write, on the results and meaning of research into extrasensory perception, or ESP.

Louisa, along with her husband J.B. Rhine, moved to Duke, in 1927, to study psychic research. At the Duke University laboratory, the pair would invent the term extrasensory perception to describe the receipt of information, by certain people, through means of their senses. This coming largely through having students, and other subjects, attempt to guess the distinctive symbols on cards they could not see. If the percentage of correct guesses was consistently higher than the probability of chance could account for, Rhine assumed that the presence of ESP was a reasonable explanation.

The content pages have been reproduced, below, for ease in reading.

The author, an astronomer and astrophysicist, was asked in the late 1940s to take on the investigation of so-called flying saucers, which were then the subject of great flurry of interest and which, apparently, the air force regarded as a decided nuisance. The author shared the skepticism of both the air force and the scientific community. But as a scientist, he drew no conclusions until he actually looked at the evidence. When he did, he found a high number of incidents that seemed unexplainable on any of the usual grounds.

In this book, the author gradually downing conviction that there must be something objective and real behind a great many of the reported sightings and encounters with spacecraft and their occupants.

Original copyright 1972. This Time/Life edition published in 1990 and contains 276pages.

Chapters include:

Original copyright 1924. This Time/Life edition published in 1991 and contains 294pages.

Original copyright 1929. This Time/Life edition published in 1990 and contains 242pages.

Original copyright 1940. This Time/Life edition published in 1990 and contains 255pages.

Original copyright 1918. This Time/Life edition published in 1990 and contains 176pages.

Original copyright 1953. This Time/Life edition published in 1991 and contains 254pages.

Original copyright 1853. This Time/Life edition published in 1991 and contains 210pages.