2776-5489) SAMUEL PATRICK SMITH - $45.00/(each) -or- $75.00/(for both)

(a) BOOKING YOURSELF How To Do It Successfully

Discover the most effective methods for marketing your personal services - without an agent. Step-by-step, a full time professional entertainer explains his system for scheduling engagements. Let this unique cassette tape album teach you the exciting business of booking yourself.

Copyright 1984 by the author.

The Three Cassette Tapes Include:

Tape One (Side One): Why People Will Book You.
Tape One (Side Two): Booking Yourself By Phone

Tape Two (Side One): Booking Yourself By Mail.
Tape Two (Side Two): Making It Pay

Tape Three (Side One): Inspiring Yourself To Succeed
Tape Three (Side Two): The Full-Time Freelancer

(b) MAKE IT HAPPEN, New Ideas On Booking Yourself

Discover the most effective methods for marketing your personal services - without an agent. Step-by-step, a full time professional entertainer explains his system for scheduling engagements. Let this unique cassette tape album teach you the exciting business of booking yourself.

This second set of audio tapes pick up where the author's first set (Booking Yourself) leaves off and gives you even MORE information on getting yourself booked.

YOU CAN NEVER HAVE TOO MUCH Information on getting yourself bookings!!

Copyright 1989 by the author.

The Three Cassette Tapes Include:

Tape One (Side One): Let's Get Organized
Tape One (Side Two): Dialing For Dollars

Tape Two (Side One): The Magic of Doing More
Tape Two (Side Two): Freelancing Forever

Tape Three (Side One): The Money Game
Tape Three (Side Two): On The Road Again

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2703-2596) A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF CONJURING PERIODICALS IN ENGLISH: 1791-1983 by James B. Alfredson and George L. Daily, Jr.

For those of you who collect magazines, Jim and George are definitely the "Toole Stott" of their time. What a book these two put out in 1986. 396 pages PACKED with thousands of listings. If nothing else, this book makes a great check list, so you (the reader) can see just what it takes to complete that file of magazines you’ve been working on for years. Or to check those magazine files you already own and want to find out if they’re Really Complete.

This book is virtually in Mint Condition. The person, I obtained this from, doesn't appear to have ever used it. Can you imagine? His lost, your gain. - $85.00

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Very Best Magical
Wishes to Dave Lebofsky
Sincerely
Dai Vernon

Contents include: To Spin a Penny Held By Two Pins - To Pass a Coin Through Your Sleeve - To Spin a Coin Inside a Hat - The Penny and the Handkerchief - The Disappearing Coin - To Spin a Coin on the Bottom of a Tumbler - A Coin Balanced on the Edge of a Tumbler - The Penny on the Finger - The Hypnotized Cards - Watch the Coin... - the Sixpence and the Handkerchief - The Walking Coin - A Lifting Trick... - A Knot Tied Instantaneously - The Card and the Watch - The Disappearing Sixpence - A Thought Reading Trick - The Imprisoned Watch - The Vanishing Half Crown - A Balancing Feat - A Trick with a Wax Match - Lighting a Match Twice - The Affectionate Queen - The Separate Matches... - Thought Reading with a Pack of Cards - String and Handkerchief Mystery - Pulling a Handkerchief Through the Leg - The Hypnotized Match.. - To Drink a Glass of Water which is Covered with Another Glass Without Touching the Glasses with Hour Hands - One Way of Putting Out a Light - The Handkerchief and Broken Match - A Second Sight Trick - The Die with the Moving Spots - The Bewitched Rule - The Rubber Ring and the String - The Pencil, Loop and Buttonhole - The String and Buttonhole Trick - Two Tumblers and a Match - The Hypnotized Tumbler - The Hypnotized Hairpins - Aladdin’s Ring - The Burning Match Puzzle - A Pretty Match Puzzle - How It Is Done? - How Many More Matches Are Required? - Five Squares Made Into Four - The Sixteen Coin Puzzle - What is Half of Twelve? - To Pass A Penny Through A Hole Half Its Size - A Scientific Coin Puzzle - The Nine Dot Puzzle - What Are Matches Made Of? - Remarkable Numbers.

Written by Will Goldston. Printed and Published by Will Goldston Limited, Aladdin House, 14 Green Street, Leicester Square, London, W.C.2.The Magician Ltd., Robin Hood Yard. London. Measures approx. 5x7 1/4 in size.  - $45.00

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2714-2659) HOUDINIs ESCAPEs and MAGIC by Walter B. Gibson. First Hardbound combined edition. Original copyrights for combined edition 1930 and 1932. Published by Blue Ribbon Books, Inc. of New York City.

A Massive 633 pages!!!

Book One (Houdini’s Escapes): 317 pages. Chapters include: Introduction - Rope Ties and Chain Releases - Special Challenges - Box Escapes - Under-Water Escapes - Trunks-Barrels-Coffins - Miscellaneous Escapes - Spectacular Mysteries and Escapes.

Book Two (Houdini’s Magic): 316 pages. Chapters include: Introduction - Impromptu Tricks - Card Tricks - Slate Tricks - Message-Reading - Platform Tricks - Stage Tricks - A Second Sight Act - Stage Illusions - Special Stage Effects - Antispiritualistic Effects - Notes on Kellar.

Book measures approx. 6"x8 1/2".

This offering comes with the Red DustJacket. The Front showing black titles and photo collage of Houdini in a cell, roped to a chair and in a strait-jacket.

99% of the time you see this book offered, it doesn't have the Scarce DustJacket. - $75.00

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2715-3948) SHERLOCK HOLMES and THE HOUDINI BIRTHRIGHT by Val Andrews

PaperBound with 160pages.

Copyright 1995, reprinted in Nov. 1999.

Published by Breese Books, Ltd in London, England.

Doctor's Watson's collaborator, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, finds himself drawn into the world of the fake psychics and Houdini is anxious for Holmes to unmask the perpetrators who prey on the innocent believers. Holmes' investigation lead him to some surprising locations including a Ruritanian castle. Sherlockians, historians and magic buffs will all be intrigued and delighted with this classic detective story which links fact and little fiction to suggest what may have happened to Houdini after his death.

The novel is in four parts:

The Sleuth, the Scribe and the Sorcerer
The Secret Box
The Magyer Connection
The Final Séance

Measures approx. 5 1/4"x8 1/4". Great Reading!!  - $25.00

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2716-5067) THE LITTLE BLACKE BOOK of Magic & Escapes by Thomas Blacke.

As the title suggest, this IS a little ‘blacke’ book for it measures 4 1/4"x5½" and contains 19 pages.

Thomas Blacke is actually Tom Carrier’s stage name. A professional magician, comedian, escape artist and pickpocket. He has performed around the World and has been featured on Canadian and American television, as well as in many periodicals. He’s also a successful magic dealer, inventor, author and lecture.

Tom has taken his favorite routines, developed over the years, and has put these in to print for all to enjoy and to learn from. As a person once said, "If you only get one good routine from a magic book, then the book has paid for itself many times over". I’m sure Tom would like to think you’ll get much more than ‘one good routine’ from his book.

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To Buster
'a Great Guy"
from
Walter Gibson
December 22, 1977

Not only do you get a Great Book about Houdini - it's AUTOGRAPHED by the author.

It doesn't get much better than this!! - $75.00

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2691-5432) MAD MOJO by Andrew Mayne

A book of new and strange magic for the stage, parlor, living room, and beach including impromptu, almost impromptu, and impromptu looking effects and routines.

PaperBound with 93pages.

Previous owners name rubber stamped inside.

Copyright 1998 and published by the author.

The contents page was so detailed, I've reproduced it for you below, for ease in reading.

Measures approx. 8 1/2"x11" - $45.00

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2692-6397) THE GREAT HOUDINI BROADCASTs by Val Andrews.

Published in 1981 by Micky Hades Publications. Calgary, Alberta, Canada. Staple bound with cloth tape spine.

Houdini died Halloween night, 1926, and it was reported that his secrets had been placed in a locked box to be opened in 1976 - fifty years later. The box, of course, was never found.

What if it had been?

What secrets would have been found?

This two-part fictional radio script has been prepared by the well known British writer Val Andrews.

It is based on the many events which surrounded Houdini's life.

The first part is a series of interviews with six of Houdini's friends, giving a background and insight into the personality of the man.

The second part deals with the opening of the box.

Sit back, relax and take insight to what people might have heard over the radio in 1926 and 1976. - $25.00

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2693-4944) THE GREAT ILLUSIONISTs. By Edwin A. Dawes. Hardbound with DustJacket. Copyright 1979 and measures 8"x10". Published by David & Charles. Newton Abbott, London. 216 pages.

As the book states: "By the use of splendid and often unique illustrations of prints, playbills and memorabilia, coupled with a constantly entertaining narrative, this book traces the history of conjuring and illusion through the lives and achievements of the finest practitioners of the art, conjurers whose names have, in many cases, become legend".

Chapters include: In the Beginning - The Learned Animals - Bags, Bubbles and Bottles - The Phenomena - The Conjuring Quacks - Laughing Gas - Phantasmagoric Professors - The Jewish Connexion - Wizards From The North - Science Et La Prestidigitation - They Also Conjured - Egypt and the Sphinx - Maskelyne & Cooke, Royal Illusionists - The Great Gun Trick - Sounds, Shadows and Shackles - Epilogue - References and Notes.

There are over 120 prints, photos and illustrations in this book. A WEALTH of Knowledge you, the reader, will find useful and fascinating. Not to mention the last 10 Pages are on HOUDINI!! - $25.00

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The following two listings are for works by Percy Naldrett. Born at Worthing, Sussex, May 17th 1888. His first public appearance was in December 1905. He was a Concert and Drawing Room entertainer. He was with the Servais Le Roy Company in 1912. Author,  Publisher and Specialist in letterpress printing of various Technical Handbooks on Magic.  J. B. Findlay, in his Seventh Collectors Annual, featured "Percy Naldrett: A Memoir" in 1969.

Both books are paperbound, printed and published by Percy Naldrett in Portsmouth, England. Each measure 5 1/2x8 1/2 and are: $25.00each

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2694-1239) MORE COLLECTED MAGIC. September 1921. 91 numbered pages.

Contents include: Compiler's Preamble - Jack Sheppard - The Enchanted Fan - Shades and Shapes - The Zodizignz - The Debur Bands - The Red Hand - An Ingenious Hat Load - A Means to an End - The Elusive Stop - Another Hat Load - The Diving Ball - The Regimental Prize Effect - Woolly Wizardry - On Card Levitations - An Easy Hat Production - Dissolving Silk - The Bretma "Glasgow" Tray.

2695-6598) THE MAGICAL MISCELLANY, Volume Seven Collected Magic Series. October 1926. 96 numbered pages.

Contents include: Divertisement - The Magic Spell - New Patter for the "Trouble-Wit" - The Sympathetic Cubes - The Card Discs - "Shoo!" - A Production Banner - The "How-on-Earth" Tube - The "What-do-you-call-it" - The Enclosure - Tubomania - A Silken Series - Vice Versa - Conjurer's Quoits - "By" - The Penetrating Tumbler - Magnetized Thought - The Lady of the Rose - The Sympathetic Star - L'Envoi

1854)   1856)

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2696-2585) 33 Rope Ties and Chain Releases by Burling Hull. Copyright 1947 by Burling Hull. Paperbound. 40pages. Numbered in the upper right corner on the cover: 1493.

Some descriptions include: The Mysterious Knots - The Kellar Tie - The Improved Kellar Tie - The Figure 8 Tie - The Mysterious Tie - B.H. Strangle Rope Tie - New Spirit Tape Tie - The Twentieth Century Tie - B.H. Triumph Tie - The Ten Ichi Thumb Tie - The Excelsior Rope Tie - The Rings and Vest Trick - Novel Faked Rope - The Novelty Tie - Release - Cotton Bandage Test - B.H. Collapsible Cabinet - B.H. Folding Cabinet - Tape Tie - The Vest Turning Trick - Vanishing Knots - Dissolving Knots - The Magic Knot - The Linking Ring - Borrowed Ring on Cord - The Master Challenge of Mummy Tie, with 50 or 75 Feet of Rope - Being Tied in Any Position - Tied in a Chair - The Siberian Transport Chain - B.H. Simplified Chain Release - The B.H. "Best" Chain Release - The B. and H. Chain Release - Mysto shackle Escape - Ankle Shackle Escape - B.H. Chain Shackle Release - Spirit Locks - Old Model Spirit Locks - B.H. Spirit Lock - The Chained Sack Escape.

A manual for the Profession on the art of rope tying and methods of obtaining releases from ropes, chains and shackles. - $25.00

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2697-3279) HOUDINIs STRANGE TALES. A collection of fiction by the legendary Harry Houdini edited by Houdini expert Patrick Culliton and T. L. Williams. What you get here is a book AND/OR cassette. The book contains Seven Short Stories; Three One-Act Plays -and- Eight Film Treatments.

As Patrick Culliton puts it: "a collection of Houdini’s fiction as ever published. Despite the fact that most of the pieces in this book were actually published in various print media during his lifetime, very few people have been aware of their existence. The material in this book was quite difficult to find."

The book was published in 1992 and contains just under 100 pages. I obtained a small number of these directly from Mr. Culliton. He was even kind enough to personally sign the book.

The second part of this offering has to do with Patrick Culliton getting together with some of his Hollywood friends and recording some of the stories. Pat’s joined on the cassette tape by: David Carradine, Cherie Currie, Robert Hays, Michael Cavanaugh, Tracey Williams, Nicholas Kepros, John Blyth Barrymore, Eugia Edwards, T. A. Waters, Doug Botnick, Wendy Talley, Gail Jensen and Allan Jones. I’m sure most of you recognize some of these actors and magicians.

A great piece of work by Pat and Tracey. I Guarantee you’ll ENJOY reading and listening to these stories by Houdini. - The Book is $25.00, the Cassette $15.00 -or- the pair for $35.00

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A collection of jokes, lines, gags, and bits of business with and without everyday household objects.

Copyright 1980 and published by Jester's Press in Greenville, South Carolina.

Content's Include:

4 Word - Author's Pre-Face - Dead Eye Caption - Coat Hanger Stuff - Newspaper Madness - Scissor Stuff - Six-Pack Holders Re-Examined - Watch-Out - Extension Cords - Bits of Business - Suggested Reading List - Special Tanks - Notes

This book is designed to give the Master of Ceremonies material with which to go forth and entertain, hold, amuse, cajole and provoke an audience. If you need some new material for being an MC, then this is for you.

Book measures approx. 5 1/2"x8 1/2" -and- has a previous owners name rubber stamped inside.

CombBound with 48pages. - $20.00

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CombBound book with 73pages.

Copyright 1983 and published by Martin Breese.

The contents pages were so detailed, I've reproduced them below.

A LOT of good, commercial close up material here. Read the contents page carefully, you won't be sorry!!

There's a little damage to the cover at the bottom.

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No copyright date given and self published by the author in London, England

Content's Include:

Manuscript with 35pages.

Previous owners name rubber stamped inside.

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SoftBound with 103pages and 22 effects with over 156 line drawings.

The content page was so detailed, I have reproduced it below for ease in reading.

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2607-7372) NEW DIRECTIONs Issue #3

Published in 1986 by Ben Harris in Queensland, Australia.

Published approximately every six months.

Contents include:

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2608-8463) SUPPLEMENT

Published in 1986 by Ben Harris Magic in Brisbane, Australia.

Contents include:

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Copyright 1985 by Ben Harris Magic of Brisbane, Australia.

SoftBound with 8pages and 13 photographs, along with 3 illustrations.

As it states inside:

"The contents consist of new and effective ideas with cards and coins. Everything is detailed herein so that even if you did not attend, you will be able to follow the contents with little effort."

Content's Include:

Pyramid Cards
Coming Together Again
Ron Hadley's "Flipping Triumph"
Oil and Water Delux
Pick-Up-Palm (P.U.P.)
Angel Aces
Righting A Wrong
Snappy Cannibal
The Three Card Game
Impromptu Daryl

Book measures approx. 8"x11 1/2". - $25.00

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If you're into GOOD CLOSE-UP MAGIC, then this is the book for you.

As Mr. Willmarth puts it: "Finally, it should be stated here that Matt makes no claim to be either a great technician or an originator of effects. Many of the tricks described here are old timers...but, remember, they are PROVEN old timers. Each one has demonstrated its worth over and over again. And, each one is described as Matt does it, with all the tips that he has developed in his forty years of constant ENTERTAINING. These are the tricks which have made Matt Shulien famous all over the world. They could do the same for you."

Chapters include:

ONE: - Not the Best, but the Biggest

TWO: Basic Sleights: Matt's Fan Location - The Crimp Location - The Palm

THREE: Quick Discoveries: Cut the Cards - The Card in the Hat - Air Pressure - The Card In The Cuff - The Card in the Card Case - One Hand Discovery (One Card) - One Hand Discovery (Two Cards) - Spell It - Three Reversed - The Invisible Hair - The Slap Discovery

FOUR: Tricks With The Change: The Change - The Professional Touch - Put It Back In The Deck - The Slam and Flip Over - That's Your Card (A Sucker Trick) - Matt's Ribbon Spread Trick

FIVE: Tricks With The Force: The Face Up Spread - The Fan Force - Matt's Face Down Spread Force - The X-ray Eyes

SIX: Miscellaneous Magic and Gags: The Vanishing Deck - Testing A Half Dollar - Bending A Spoon - Bending The Arm - Twister - Matt's Match Magic - The Jumping Match - Goldfish Eating

SEVEN: Card Routines: Where Do You Want Your Card? - The Mental Fan Force Routine - Counting the Cards - Matt's Crazy Poker Deal - The Cards and the Cigarettes

EIGHT: Tricks With Gimmicks: The Pea Can - The Half In Bottle - The Fifty Sponge Ball - Matt's Color Changing Knife Routine - A Knife Gag - The Case of the Missing Handle

NINE: Smash Discoveries: The Card In the Sugar - The Corner In The Glass - The Card In The Matchbook - The Card Under The Tablecloth - Here Comes Kelly (Card In The Glass) - The Card On The Wall

TEN: The Real Secrets of Matt Schulien.

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2566-2568) THE ADVENTURE OF THE CLOUDED CRYSTAL by Ted Kelly. Actors play script. Published by Samuel French, Inc., New York, Hollywood, London, Toronto. Copyright 1982. Paperbound (measuring 5x 7 1/4) with 24pages. A play script having to do with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, a Medium, and Harry Houdini. Originally commissioned by Actors Theatre of Louisville. The play takes place in a room, at the home of Mrs. Lillian Alexander, a celebrated spirit medium and psychic, New York City. It is 1922.

Story of the Play:

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes, and Harry Houdini, world's greatest magician and escape artist, are dear friends, although the issue of "Spiritualism" often causes them to argue. Doyle arranges a séance with a famed New York medium in the hopes Houdini will become a "believer". Houdini, however, plans to expose the medium, Mrs. Alexander, as a fraud. What he doesn't count on is the cleverness of the woman. She's well aware that Houdini defeats every medium he encounters, but she has no intention of being one more victim. The dramatic (and often funny) sparks fly as the two lock themselves in combat, with Sir Arthur and a young woman reporter on the sidelines. Ultimately, Doyle and Houdini have a stormy scene, and the magician finds he must retreat from Mrs. Alexander's skill and intelligence. It's the only time Houdini fails. He and the medium make a strange pact: to stay as far away from one another as possible. If Houdini "behaved" Mrs. Alexander won't reveal his secret to the world: He believes Sherlock Homes is a real person!

Haven't heard of this "Houdini Play" from 23 years ago? Well you have now!! - $35.00

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2554-9514) WINDOWs TO THE MIND by Paul J. Siegel

Due to the success of this book, the publisher requested another volume of material from this author.

Copyright 1968 and published by Mickey Hades Enterprises of Calgary, Alberta CANADA.

ClothTapeBound with 33pages.

Contents Include:

Foreword - Envelepathy - Spectra-Ception - Frame of Mind - Ad-denda - Psychic Relation - Brainstorm - Solus Intra Tercet - Four Thought - Booknow I - Booknow II - Pronunciamiento - Living Color - Quest of Canore - Precardnition - Coincidence - Pent-A-Chance - Talismans of Pelazon - Mystery of Eleusis - Secret of Silence - House on Haunted Hill - Vates Sacer - Inside Insight - Spell-A-Thought - Spell-A-Pack

Previous owners name rubber stamped inside. Measures approx. 8 1/2"x11". - $25.00

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2556-8234) STRANGE SECRETs The Addenda

PaperBound book with 54pages.

Copyright 1984 and published by The Abbott Magic Company of Colon, Michigan.

Contents Include:

CHARACTER READING by R.S. Glover - Part One: Misfitting The Misfit - Part Two: Mixed Types - Part Three: Profiles, Texture, Color - Part Four: Spoiled and Sensitive People - Part Five: The Impractical Man

ASTROLOGIA by Howard P. Albright - Billet Reading Routine, Number One - The Automatic Prompter - How To Use The "Prompter" Cards - Sealed Message Reading Routine Number Two

Previous owners name rubber stamped inside. Measures approx. 8 1/4"x10 3/4". - $25.00

Published, in 1941, by Garden City Publishing Co., Inc in Garden City, New York.

Hardbound with a total of 301 pages!!

This is the first combined edition of the two titles, originally published in 1929 and 1932.

Contents include:

On the signature page it is signed:

I don't think I've ever seen Blackstone sign himself as a "Col" before.

Across from this Blackstone signing (on the inside of the front cover), it is signed at the top:

Then there's a rubber stamp showing the book came from the "Library of Magic" of C. R. Tracy

Under the rubber stamp, it is signed:

So, you figure it out.

Did Blackstone, Sr. sign this book for C.R. Tracy and then Mr. Tracy gave the book to Mr Strinky in 1962?

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2325-3215) PROGRAMs OF MAGICIANs by J.F. Burrows

From The Title Page:

No copyright date given, but I guess we can assume it was in the early 1900s.

The content page was so detailed, I have reproduced it below for ease in reading.

SoftBound with 36pages.

Book measure's approx. 6"x8 3/4".

A second edition of this book sold on November 26th in the Martinka Auction for $117.00 (plus 10% buyer's premium)

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2609-2369) THE LIFE AND MANY DEATHs OF HARRY HOUDINI by Ruth Brandon.

Hardbound with DustJacket.

Copyright 1993. Stated "First U.S. Edition".

Published by Random House. New York. 358 pages.

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