LIVES OF THE CONJURORS - 1st 1876 - BLACK MAGIC, DEMON CONJURORS, PAGAN RITES ANTIQUE & VINTAGE COLLECTIBLES An exceedingly rare first edition

An exceedingly rare first edition copy of an African American awareness children's book from a very well known early African American author and activist

detailing the 1940s-1970s

save for light spots of foxing on the top border of the first two blank pages

Very scarce editorial copy

His favorite effect was the Bullet Catching act (but eventually dropped it as being too dangerous) and Plate Spinning

LIVES OF THE CONJURORS - 1st 1876 - BLACK MAGIC, DEMON CONJURORS, PAGAN RITES ANTIQUE & VINTAGE COLLECTIBLES An exceedingly rare first editionTHE LIVES OF THE CONJURORS Book Details + Condition: Tinsley Brothers (London). First Edition, 1876. Scarce. Hardcover. 360 pages with index. Blue cloth boards with black decorations and gilt title to spine. "Lives of the Conjurors" is a history of stage magicians and performers, demon conjurors, wizards, pagan rites, phantoms, devils, apparitions, and much more. Fascinating work describing the use of magic mirrors in the ancient world, black magic,