Yankee Magic Collector, No. 3

The Yankee Magic Collector

No. 3 & Supplement
By Ed Hill, ed.,Bob Schoof, ed.
1988
84 pages pages
Published by New England Magic Collectors Association

The Yankee Magic Collector, Issue #3 (1988), edited by Ed Hill & Bob Schoof.  80 pages, plus 28-page supplement.  Signed and numbered edition limited to 175 copies.

Contents

The Mysterious Morphets
by James B. Alfredson 7

Who was Rufus Steele?
by Robert Parrish 11

Items of Conjuring Interest in the Royal Library at Copenhagen
by Edwin A. Dawes 15

Sagamore Hill Portrait of Houdini
by Morris N. Young, M.D 25

Future Collectables Currently Available: A Column for Beginning Collectors
by Ronald P. Dutton, Ed .D 27

The Traveling Magician
by Jerry Fields… 35

Early Automaton Clocks Featuring Magicians
by Orville R. Hagens and Ed Hill. 39

Creation of a Magic Library and A Study in Early Magic Books
by H. Adrian Smith 45

Priceless Gifts
by Irv Weiner 51

De La Mano, Master of Mystery
by Jackie Monticup ….53

Almost a Movie Star
by Robert Lund 57

Early Magic Sets from the collection of Dr. John Henry Grossman 61

Washington Simmons
from Will Alma’s Australian Magic Review 65

Magic on Display
by Ed Hill 71

Memories of an Erstwhile Baystater
by KenTrombly 75

NEMCA Membership Roster 78

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Supplement

The Yankee Magic Collector

No. 3 Supplement
By Ed Hill, ed.,Bob Schoof, ed.
1988
32 pages pages
Published by New England Magic Collectors

 

 

John Henry Anderson, Wizard of the North Alma Conjuring Collection 
from the researched files of the “Alma Conjuring Collection,” State Library of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia by Will Alma, M.I.M.C., Honorable Curator