Magic by Sorcar (29 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Slight soiling to page edges.

Condition: New.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First edition. Boards quite clean and bright with light wear to the spine. A firm copy lacking the ffep and half title, contents in nice condition. VG.

Stiff Wraps. Condition: Very Good. Second Edition. Wraps worn with some loss and signs of repair but quite clean and bright. A firm copy with contents in nice condition. VG.

HARD BACK RED. Condition: GOOD. minor staining to front and back covers (shelf wear) DATE PUBLISHED: 1983 EDITION: 130.

Condition: Good. Pictorial wrappers, illustrated, 130 pages. Inscription to Arthur Emerson. Wear to covers, small chip to front hinge, else in good condition.

Condition: slightly worn. CIRCA 1960 TATTERED EDGES DATE PUBLISHED: 1960 EDITION: 130.

All India Magic Circle, Calcutta 1966. First Impression. Publishers orange cloth with dust jacket. Frontispice. 93 pages + 8 pages Cartoons + 20 pages with photographs. Signed by the author and the magician Socar on the title page. Small tear on the lower part of the dust jackets front. Approx. 1 cm. Otherwise a nice copy in very good condition.

Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First. Red cloth has titles in black on front and spine. Slight flaw in cloth across front board under author's name. Boards otherwise clean and bright. Slight age-discolouration of e/p's else contents tight and clean. No inscriptions. 93pp with cartoons and plates at rear. Dust jacket is slightly discoloured and bumped on edges. A very nice copy.

Hb. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: None. First Edition. Green board with illustration of P.C. Sorcar on front of cover: Moderate soiling, rubbing & scratches to cover. Spine: head & foot with thin wear, chips; foot with 1.5 split to frontside edge. Small wear to boards fore corners. Edges: just a couple of faint foxings. Frontis: colour profile of P.C.Sorar in attire. Clean content. Illustrated by line drawings. Binding is As New. 176p.

HB. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: None. Revised Edition. Yellow cloth on boards, illustrated photograph of P.C.Sorcar in attire; moderate soiling, rubbing & scratches. Spine: thin wear to head & foot. Wear to boards fore corner. Some small wear spots to extremeties. Edges: faint and just a few foxings. Frontis: colour photograph of P.C.Sorcar. Clean contents. Illustratedby line drawings. Couple of pages head fore corner with small dog-eared. Binding is As New. 176p.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Edition. 176 pages. Stamped with name of distributor on front free endpaper. Small chip in foredge of front free endpaper. Corners and edges of backstrip bumped and show soome wear. The pages and the photo on the front cover are clean and bright. Photos on request. Size: 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall.

Hb. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: VG-. First Impression. Light green cloth on boards with red titles. Faint thin yellow /soiling to top and bottom boards edges. Edges: light soiling and few only foxings. Ffep: owners ex-libris bookplate. Frontis: b/w photograph of P.C.Sorcar in magicians attire. Thin small smudge to head & foot of eps. B/w illustrations and line drawings. Binding is As New. 288p Dj: moderate rubbing & scratches. Spine: creasing, chips, small tears and a 7 cm open tear to frontside edge; foot of spine wih wear, creasing, small tears and a 2 cm open tear. Top & bottom edges with creasings, wear, small tears and chips. 1kg.

Hardcover. Condition: Good +. No Jacket. First. Pictorial hard cover has minor chipping on bottom edge, corners and spine ends with small bite? (1/2 inch) out of front spine edge. 176pp. Contents tight and clean with no inscriptions. Good copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Some natural offsetting (light tan stains from glue used in manufacturing) to endsheets, otherwise very good, tight, clean copy with no markings or bookplates. Slight edge wear. In a very good dust jacket with NO chips and only minor edge wear. U.S. price on rear jacket flap has been corrected in thin felt pen. No other markings. Overall, an excellent copy of this large tome. 288 oversize pages illustrated with b&w plates and drawings. Well-produced. Contents includes: author's general opinions on magic topics, historical analysis of Indian Rope Trick, numerous well-illustrated explanations of magical effects ranging from small hand-held tricks to large stage illusions. NO workshop plans.

HARD BACK BROWN. CIRCA 1950 first impression Additional Postage Required e reproductions on coated paper stock of b&w photographs of P.C. Sorcar Picture section is preceded by three short essays of a biographical nature DATE PUBLISHED: 1950 EDITION: 175 GOOD FIRST IMPRESSION. JACKET: WORN DJ.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. The incredible story of P.C. Sorcar, the world renowned magician from Bengal with contributions from other famous magicians like Christopher Milbourne, Jack Gwynne, Micky Hades, Jay and Frances Marshall, Burns Scandret, Goodlife, Gasho Ishikawa, Arthur Leroy, Joseph Booth and others(praising his unique art), with color frontis and 20 pages of photo plates and several [pages of hilarious cartoons. Bound in orange cloth and come with the original pictorial dust jacket. A nice and crisp copy, both book and the jacket are very good.

HARD BACK GREEN. Condition: GOOD. first impression, signed and inscribed by author, previous owners name stamped on inside of front and rear covers, black and white illustrations, binding tight, pages clean DATE PUBLISHED: 1960 EDITION: 288.

Condition: Good. First impression. Gray cloth with orange stamping on front cover and spine, pictorial dust jacket. Illustrated, 288 pages. Chips to jacket, soiling to page corner, else in good condition.

Illustr, 10 x 7.25, cloth, 134 pp, covers rubbed and faded, hinges loose, eps toned, in a rubbed, extremity worn and edge chipped, price clipped dust jacket. Scarce.

Hardcover. Condition: Acceptable. First Edition. More Magic For You by Sorcar, P.C. Indrajal, stated first, 1965 Hardback in acceptable condition. Text is clean and unmarked, binding tight, some slight tanning of pages due to paper used and age. Cover is acceptable its clean however there is some damage at top and bottom of spine otherwise clean. Sorcar brought the magic of India to the rest of the world. His advice was don't learn every trick, lean a few and do them well and never expose your trick. This is his second book the first being Magic for You. Loaded with unusual tricks, this title is hard to find. B&W illustrations as well as color photo of Sorcar, 176 pages, index.