dexter will editor compiler (3 résultats)

Original Cloth. Etat : Near Fine. Etat de la jaquette : Very Good. 1st Edition. Black cloth, lettered in gold foil. Text block edges a bit toned by age, otherwise nearly as issued. Color illus. dust jacket shows modest shelf wear with a few edge chips and areas of rubbing, minor soiling, still displays well in new mylar. 141 pp. Dated based on author's intro. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Book.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. No Jacket. Stan Lane (illustrateur). 1st Edition. 143pp in pictorial boards well used and rubbed to the extremities. Owner's inscription to the head of the front paste-down otherwise unmarked. Tipped in a business card for a "Versatile Magician" from High Wycombe.

Hardcover. Etat : Very Good. Etat de la jaquette : Good. Jacket and illustrations by Stan Lane (illustrateur). 1st Edition. First edition, first impression. Undated but 1957 from other bibliographic sources. Some edge wear, creasing, closed tears and loss to top and bottom of fab illustrated jacket and spine, small piece missing from centre front jacket, corners rubbed with loss, some slight scratches to spine, but jacket bright and unfaded. not price clipped (no published price), no inscriptions, internally clean tight and square, overall a reasonable copy for its age. 143pp, lavishly illustrated. Will Dexter (1906-85), was a close up magic worker, mentalist, journalist and writer. Born William Thomas Pritchard in England, Dexter was a professional journalist who served as an editor for number of newspapers, and later as Editor and Publisher with Public Relations Industrial, London until his retirement in 1969. In retirement, he became a Daily Telegraph crossword compiler, he also ghosted several books for Robert Harbin and was a member of the Magic Circle, the British Ring, East Kent Magical Society, Nottingham Guild of Magicians and an Honorary Life Member of the Blackpool Magicians' Club. This is indispensable guide to the performance of his conjuring tricks. Scarce in this first impression.