adolphe blind (7 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. First Edition. 8vo. Printed boards with cloth spine. 84pp. 1st edition. Extra pages of clippings on magic reference bound in front. Covers edge-worn. Fair.

Zustand: Very Good. Limited edition facsimile of the original edition. Green cloth with gilt stamping on spine, 83 pages. Very good condition.

Broschur. Zustand: Gut. 80 s. 18x25,5x0,5 cm._Broschur_Französisch_80 s._208 g. J25-W12-162 Sprache: Französisch Gewicht in Gramm: 208.

Pp. [170], printed on rectos only, the text numbered 1-84; Martino Fine Books,Mansfield Centre, CT, n.d.[1998]. Limited (number unspecified) facsimile edition. *Originally published in 1920.

Scarce. First edition. Hardback. Issued in printed soft wrappers, which are now bound in to attractive quarter brown calf with mottled boards. Gilt stamped title to spine. Original front cover has mounted b/w illustration of chess-playing automaton. Author, title and illustration within ornamental border. This work describes false automatons; devices that appear to move, think, and act of their own accord or by clockwork, but are instead controlled by some hidden apparatus or device operated by a conjurer or their assistant. Includes sections on Robert-Houdin, and the chess playing 'The Turk' of Wolfgang von Kempelen. Adolphe Blind was often referred to as 'Professeur Magicus'. Text in French. Back cover printed: Grave et imprimé par S.A.D.A.G. Genève. In very good condition. Neat ink name to front blank page. [4], 9-80 pages : illustrations, portraits, plans. 255 x 180 mm (10 x 7 inches). .

Soft cover. Zustand: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Small 4to. 79 pp. Bound in original printed wraps with a laid down image of a chess-playing automaton on the front cover as issued. Profusion of illustrations. A publisher's flyer for the two-volume work on automata by Chapuis and Gelis laid in. Bookplate. The gatherings are largely un-cut. Text in French.

Zustand: Fair. Hardcover with blue cardboard cover, and black lettering. 84 pages. Ex libris John McKinven. Binding is in bad shape and cover is almost completely detached.