Limited Edition of 100 copies.  ----        Last few remaining copies.

Published to accompany the lecture of the same title presented at the IBM Convention Cleveland Ohio 1st July 2004.

Includes articles about Chung Ling Soo, AMAC, John Ramsay, Cardini, Sam Sharpe, Arnold De Biere, Joseph Michael Hartz and Charles Bertram.

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About the Author: Edwin A. Dawes is an Honorary Vice-President and Gold Medallist of The Magic Circle, its historian and recipient of its Maskelyne and Devant Awards for contributions respectively to British and International Magic. He was the first recipient of the FISM Special Award for History & Research, awarded a Special Fellowship by the Academy of Magical Arts in 2017, and in 2018 was honoured with the Allan Slaight Lifetime Achievement Award. Author of  twenty-four books and monographs and ‘A Rich Cabinet of Magical Curiosities,’ which is now in its forty-seventh year in The Magic Circular.

Other Titles by the author include:

The Great Illusionists (1979)

Isaac Fawkes: Fame and Fable (1979)

Vonetta: Mistress of Mystery (1982)

The Barrister in the Circle (1983)

The Book of Magic (jointly with Arthur Setterington) (1986 & 1989)

Making Magic (jointly with Arthur Setterington) (1986, 1992 & 1993)

Henri Robin: Expositor of Science and Magic (1990)

The Magic of Britain (1994)

Charles Bertram: The Court Conjurer (1997)

Stodare: The Enigma Variations (1998)

Glimpses of Goldston (1999 & 2000)

Stanley Collins: Conjurer, Collector and Iconoclast (2002)

The Conversion of a Magical Loner (2003 & 2007)

Harry Leat: Magic Dealer and Crusader (2003)

Out of the Rich Cabinet (2004)

Circle Without End 1905-2005 (jointly with Michael Bailey) (2005)

The Great Lyle (2005)

Henry Dean: Eighteenth-Century Best-Selling Magic Author/Compiler (jointly with Clay H. Shevlin) (2012)

David Nixon: Entertainer with the Magic Touch (jointly with Stephen Short) (2009)

John Henry Anderson: The Great Wizard of the North & his Magical Family (jointly with            Michael E. Dawes) (2014)

Doctor Ormonde: The Orcadian Magician and his Talented Family (2016)

Willane: The Story of the Short but Remarkable Career of a Creative Performer (2018)

Jon Gresham: The Life and Adventures of a Sideshow Showman, Fire Eater and Magician. (2019) (jointly with Jon & Pat Gresham, Jon Marshall)