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The Fifteen Most Recent Posts
- Today I uploaded to Amazon the replacement cover for Rethinking S.W. Erdnase
- Follow-up to the preceding post: This is the current version of the front cover for my book on Professor Hoffmann’s short fiction
- My first (I think) effort to promote my next book of theoretical interest to magic collectors: Professor Hoffmann’s Short Fiction: A Bibliographical Study of the Fiction of Angelo J. Lewis
- FROM SEPTEMBER 11, 2011: Plymouth Place, Part 6: Tips on finding Plymouth Place on old maps — and a discussion of streets in that area
- The cover chage on Rethinking S.W. Erdnase will probably take place Thursday or so
- FROM SEPTEMBER 11, 2011: Plymouth Place, Part 5: The importance of Plymouth Place, Chicago
- FROM SEPTEMBER 5, 2011: Some thoughts on Plymouth Place, Chicago, 1902 . . .
- Soon I hope to change the cover of Rethinking S.W. Erdnase
- FROM SEPTEMBER 2, 2011: Regarding “73 Plymouth Place,” I found this information interesting. Not “super interesting,” but “fairly interesting.” I mean, “Andrews” is, after all, a fairly common name . . .
- A Brief and Pleasant Treatise on My Blogging, Continued . . .
- A Brief and Pleasant Treatise (and Unbalanced and Incomplete) on My Blogging History . . .
- Pinned Post: US Ordering Information for The Wizard’s Tower (by Professor Hoffmann) and Rethinking S.W. Erdnase
- Rethinking S.W. Erdnase: Another View
- Was Professor Hoffmann’s King Koko or the Pretty Princess and the Lucky Lover doomed by its own title?
- “Rejected” cover designs for the 2023 version of Rethinking S.W. Erdnase
Monthly Archives: January 2011
“Sleight of Hand,” by Edwin Sachs: Points and variants
Note: I originally posted this post on September 24, 2010, at 1:48 a.m. Well, one point (and variant). I recently obtained a copy of the second edition of Sleight of Hand, by Edwin Sachs, or so I fondly thought. However, … Continue reading
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Henry T. Coates & Co. and the “Alta Edition” of Robert-Houdin’s autobiography
Note: I originally published this post on September 28, 2010, at 12:06 a.m. Edgar G. Heyl (in “The Early American Editions of Robert-Houdin’s Autobiography,” in Cues for Collectors) and Clay Shevlin (in “Robert-Houdin’s Memoirs: A Checklist of English-Language Variants,” in … Continue reading
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The Armchair Bibliographer 