Greater Magic: A Practical Treatise on Modern Magic 1938 John Northern Hilliard First Edition SIGNED by Jean Hugard

Title: Greater Magic: A Practical Treatise on Modern Magic

Author: John Northern Hilliard / His Manuscripts and Noted Edited by Carl W. Jones and Jean Hugard / Illustrations by Harlan Tarbell

Description: First edition stated. Inscribed by Jean Hugard on the front free endpaper: ''Magically yours / Jean Hugard. / Jan. 10. 1939 / N.Y.C.''. Bound in the publisher's reddish-brown buckram with gilt title on spine. Spine faded. Boards show moderate wear and scuffing. Previous owner's label on front pastedown, else internally clean. Extensively illustrated. Index. xxi + 1004, [1] pages.

One of the best and largest books ever written about magic. Upon the death of the author in 1935, who had finished about half of Greater Magic, a lot of manuscript remained to be completed. Carl Waring Jones, who had contracted for its publication, hired Jean Hugard in 1938 to complete and enlarge the text to over 1,000 pages. Jean Hugard (1871-1959), one of the world's great stage magicians, immigrated to the United States from Australia in 1915. He founded Hugard's Magic Monthly in 1943 and was also named the fourth ever Society of American Magicians, Dean of Magicians in 1951.

The previous owner, W. T. Noel Preston (1904-1970), was a member of the Society of Magicians, Hartford, Connecticut.

Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good

Publisher: Carl Waring Jones / Privately Printed for Professional & Amateur Magicians
Place: Minneapolis
Year: 1938

Keywords: prestidigitation, stage magic, The Great Hugard,