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Lulu Hurst (the Georgia wonder) writes her autobiography, and for the first time explains and demonstrates the great secret of her marvelous power.

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Rome, Ga. : L. Hurst, 1897.

1897

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FormatTextCall numberAN (Atkinson) (Atkinson, L. H. Lulu Hurst)Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315
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Verschiedenes zum Unterricht und zur Unterhaltung für Liebhaber der Gauckeltasche, des Magnetismus, und anderer Seltenheiten / gesammelt und herausgegeben von dem Hofrath von Eckartshausen.

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München : Bey Joseph Lindauer, 1793.

1793-1791

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FormatTextCall numberMZC [RBS] 97-881 (Eckartshausen, K. von. Verschiedenes zum Unterricht)Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Theatre

The ghost! : as produced in the spectre drama, popularly illustrating the marvellous optical illusions obtained by the apparatus called the Dircksian phantasmagoria : being a full account of its history, construction, and various adaptations / by Henry Dircks.

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London : E. and F.N. Spon, 1863.

1863

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FormatTextCall numberMZC [RBS] 97-879 (Dircks, H. Ghost)Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Theatre
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FormatTextCall number8-MZC (Dircks, H. Ghost)Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Theatre

The true history of the ghost, and all about metempsychosis / by Professor Pepper.

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London ; New York : Cassell & Co., 1890.

1890

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FormatTextCall numberMZC [RBS] 97-931 (Pepper, J. H. True history of the ghost)Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Theatre

The Society of American Magicians' collection in the New York Public Library ...

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[New York : The Society?, 1946?]

1946

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FormatTextCall numberMZC [RBS] 97-917 (New York Public Library. Society of American magicians' collection)Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Theatre

Rouge et noir : the academicians of 1823, or, The Greeks of the Palais Royal, and the clubs of St. James's ... / by Charles Persius.

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London : Lawler and Quick and Stephen Couchman, 1823.

1823

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FormatTextCall number8-YFP (Dunne, C. Rouge et noir)Item locationOffsite
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Gamblers' tricks with cards, exposed and explained / by J.H. Green.

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New York : Dick & Fitzgerald, [1868?]

1868

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FormatTextCall number8-YFP (Green, J. H. One hundred tricks with cards)Item locationOffsite

The highway to hell / compiled and edited by John Philip Quinn.

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Chicago : International Anti-Gambling Assn., 1895.

1895

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FormatTextCall number8-YFP (Quinn, J. P. Highway to hell)Item locationOffsite

Le vieux Paris : fètes, jeux, et spectacles / Victor Fournel.

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Tours : A. Mame, 1887.

1887

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Young folks' book of games, sports, and pastimes.

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New York : Thomas R. Knox, [ca. 1890]

1890

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FormatTextCall numberMVFL (Young folks' book of games, sports, and pastimes)Item locationOffsite

Will Goldston's exclusive magical secrets.

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London : Magician, Ltd., [1912]

1912

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FormatTextCall numberMZC [RBS] 97-887 (Goldston, W. Will Goldston's Exclusive magical secrets)Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Theatre

A Descriptive inventory of the several exquisite and magnificent pieces of mechanism and jewellery comprised in the schedule annexed to an Act of Parliament made in the thirteenth year of His Present Majesty, George the Third, for enabling Mr. James Cox of the city of London, jeweller, to dispose of his museum by way of lottery.

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London : Printed by H. Hart ... for Mr. Cox ..., 1773.

1773

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FormatTextCall numberMNO (Cox, J. Descriptive inventory of the several exquisite and magnificent pieces of mechanism and jewellery)Item locationSchwarzman Building - Art & Architecture Room 300

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Napoleon's oraculum, or, Book of fate.

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New York : Wm. H. Murphy, [ca. 1839]

1839

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FormatTextCall numberNAC p.v. 522 no. 1-4Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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The Thompson Street Poker Club : from "Life".

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New York : Dick & Fitzgerald, c1888.

1888

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FormatTextCall numberNBF p.v. 283 6 titlesItem locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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The Pope's bull, and the words of Daniel O'Connell.

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New-York : Joseph H. Ladd, [1856]

1856

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12 tricks with a borrowed deck [microform] / by Martin Gardner ; illustrated by Tarbell.

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Chicago : L.L. Ireland, [1940]

1940

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FormatTextCall number*Z MV p.v. 208-214Item locationOffsite

De l'illusion : son mécanisme psycho-social / par le prestidigitateur Alber ; avec une préface de Raymond Meunier.

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Paris : Libr. Bloud, 1909.

1909

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FormatTextCall numberMZC (Alber. De l'illusion)Item locationOffsite

La prestidigitation sans appareils : traité de tous le tour de mains anciens et de toutes les manipulations nouvelles (notament du double empalmage) comprenant des tours anciens et modernes (cartes, pièces, billes de billard, dés à coudre) / Camille Gaultier.

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Paris: Émile Nourry, [1914]

1914

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FormatTextCall numberMZC (Gaultier, C. Prestidigitation sans appareils)Item locationOffsite

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A wizard's wanderings from China to Peru / by John Watkins Holden.

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London : Dean & Son, 1886.

1886

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FormatTextCall numberMZC (Holden, J. W. Wizard's wanderings from China to Peru)Item locationOffsite

Magic, pretended miracles, and remarkable natural phenomena.

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Philadelphia : American Sunday-School Union ; London : Religious Tract Society, [1855]

1855

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FormatTextCall numberMZC (Magic, pretended miracles, and remarkable natural phenomena)Item locationPerforming Arts Research Collections - Theatre

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The adventures of the strange man / by H.S. Lynn ; with a supplement showing "how it's done".

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London : H.S. Lynn, 1873

1873

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FormatTextCall numberYRE p.v. 4Item locationSchwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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Spiritualism exposed.

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[Philadelphia, Pa.? : s.n., 189-?]

1890-1899

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Magic and its mysteries / explained by J. Dazley Theobald.

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London : Frederick Warne, [1881]

1881

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FormatTextCall numberMZC (Theobald, J. D. Magic and its mysteries)Item locationOffsite

Hundert Schnurrpfeifereien : anregende und ohne Vorübung oder umständliche Geräthschaften von jedermann leicht ausführbare Unterhaltungen für Gross und Klein / nach dem Französischen von Sophus Tromholt.

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Dresden : Verlag des Universum (Alfred Hauschild), [1893?]

1893

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FormatTextCall numberMZC (Tromholt, S. Hundert Schnurrpfeifereien)Item locationOffsite

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Les tours de cartes montantes / Claude Isbecque ; préface de Henri Plantet.

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[Brussels, Belgium] : Cercle belge d'illusionnisme, [1954]

1954

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FormatTextCall numberMZCD (Isbecque, C. Tours de cartes montantes)Item locationOffsite

The banner of life : an exponent of spiritual and liberal thought and facts.

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Boston, Mass. : [s.n.]

1910-1935

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FormatTextCall numberYRA+++ (Banner) v. 25 (Sept. 22, 1934-May 25, 1935)Item locationOffsite
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FormatTextCall numberYRA+++ (Banner) v. 23, no. 1111-1130 (Feb. 1938-Feb. 1933)Item locationOffsite
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FormatTextCall numberYRA+++ (Banner) v. 21-22 (July 12, 1930-Naj. 30, 1932)Item locationOffsite
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The missing link in modern spiritualism / by A. Leah Underhill of the Fox family ; revised and arranged by a literary friend.

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New York : Thomas R. Knox & Co., 1885.

1885

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FormatTextCall numberYRC (Underhill. Missing link in modern spiritualism)Item locationSchwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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The death-blow to spiritualism : being the true story of the Fox sisters, as revealed by authority of Margaret Fox Kane and Catherine Fox Jencken / by Reuben Briggs Davenport.

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New York : G.W. Dillingham Co., 1897.

1897

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