[Rarebooks] OFFER RARE JAPANESE MAGIC MANUAL.

[Laderman]

ANON. TEJINA NO TANE. [HANDBOOK OF MAGIC]. Tokyo, ND [1860-77]. Late Edo to 
early Meiji. Complete in one volume. Title page, introduction and 38 pages 
each with a trick in Japanese illustrated with a quite graphic and clear 
woodcut on each page. Absolutely Fine condition, and very rare thus. 
Unnoted in the National Diet Library, which is the Japanese repository for 
all Meiji books but also unnoted in KSM which is the bibliography of all 
books earlier than Meiji. An ephemeral magic book for amateur or 
professional Japanese magicians. The tricks in this one, unlike my last are 
all Japanese originals, with no borrowing from Western sources as yet. This 
is the second Japanese magic book I have had this year, and I am astonished 
at finding another so quickly. I only have had one other over some 40 years 
of bookselling and searching the shops in both Japan and the USA.  $2500.00

ZITA BOOKS / NEW YORK, N.Y. / G. LADERMAN
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