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Joe Strong the Boy Wizard-copyright 1916, George Sully & Co-Hard Cover-vGOOD-.Af

Joe Strong the Boy Wizard-copyright 1916, George Sully & Co-Hard Cover-vGOOD-.Af

$ 1.84

Availability: 100 in stock
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  • Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
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  • Condition: Spine is cocked, covers have soiling, corner bumps, bend in lower right corner. Writing in ink and pencil on inside both covers, and first blank end paper. Interior pages have wear, with a few tears. All in otherwise good condition. Worn but all readable. Please view the attached images to see the quality of this fine item.

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    Joe Strong the Boy Wizard-copyright 1916, George Sully & Co-Hard Cover-vGOOD-
    (No Reserve-Bid & the Item Will Sell)
    ITEM:   Hard Cover book,
    Joe Strong the Boy Wizard,
    by Vance Barnum,  Whitman Publishing Co,  copyright 1916, George Sully and Co.
    A fiction story that also teaches some magic within its covers, as noted below.
    Contents:
    1 Chapter I Joe Solves a Puzzle
    13 Chapter II A Fireworks Fire
    14 - Mathematical Slate Trick
    21 Chapter III To the Rescue
    32 Chapter IV Joe’s Feat
    40 Chapter V Joe’s Ambition
    50 Chapter VI A Family Jar
    60 Chapter VII Mr. Blackford’s Trouble
    68 Chapter VIII The Runaway
    78 Chapter IX The Overturned Lamp
    88 Chapter X The Side-Door Pullman
    96 Chapter XI A Surprised Deacon
    103 Chapter XII The Professor’s Assistant: general description of palming, trick wands, hat loading, etc.
    112 Chapter XIII Joe’s Help Needed
    123 Chapter XIV Joe’s Disappearance
    126 - Vanishing and Appearing Assistant
    131 Chapter XV Invoking the Law
    137 Chapter XVI The Smashed Watch
    145 Chapter XVII Joe Learns Something
    147 - Secret of the Smashed and Restored Watch
    154 Chapter XVIII The Magic Egg
    158 - Balancing an Egg on a Straw
    161 Chapter XIX The Circus
    161 - Secret to the Floating Egg
    164 - The Floating Card
    167 - The Answering Figure
    170 Chapter XX Some Trapeze Tricks
    180 Chapter XXI Almost Caught
    187 - Lit and Extinguished Candle Secret
    191 Chapter XXII Strange News
    193 - Pulling Objects from a Borrowed Hat
    199 Chapter XXIII “I've Got You!”
    202 - Guinea Pigs to Doves Trick
    203 - Vanishing Canary
    207 Chapter XXIV Caught
    211 Chapter XXV Joe's Clever Trick
    DATE:  1916
    SIZE: 4 1/4 by 6 5/8 inches, 215 pages, with orange cloth hard covers.
    COND:  Spine is cocked, covers have soiling,  corner bumps, bend in lower right corner.  Writing in ink and pencil on inside both covers, and first blank end paper.  Interior pages have wear, with a few tears. All in otherwise good  condition.  Worn but all readable.   Please view the attached images to see the quality of this fine item.
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