Yankee Magic Collector No. 5

The Yankee Magic Collector, Issue #4 (1990), edited by Ed Hill & Bob Schoof.  84 pages. 

Signed and numbered edition limited to 175 copies

 

Contents

A Letter for Signor Blitz
by John Henry Grossman 5

Howard Thurston’s Card Tricks
by John Booth 7

Douglas Geoffrey Mackintosh, Hardeen, Jr., May 29, 1907 – January 14, 1990, Successor to Hardeen
by William V. Rauscher 9

Colorful Collecting
by Edwin A. Dawes 15

Cataleptic Fit
by Morris N. Young 23

June Barrows Mussey
by Dr. Harold F. Puff and Edith Puff 27

Mary Tofts, Patron Saint
by Sheila Lyon 35

Magic on Display
by Ed Hill 37

E. Cooper Taylor III and His Fellow Touring Magicians of 1869
by E. Cooper Taylor 1 41

Creation of a Magic Library and a Study in Early Magic Books (Conclusion)
by H. Adrian Smith 47

A First Down Under
by James B. Alfredson 61

Teen-Age Conjuring Periodicals in the Years 1960-1969
by Father Stephen A. Fernandes 63

Future Collectibles Currently Available: A Column for Beginning Collectors
by Ronald P. Dutton 69

NEMCA Members 80

Memories of Yankee Gathering II 82