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How to Read People’s Minds
H.J. Burlingame. Chicago, 1891 and Chicago, 1905.
Two Volumes, Illustrations, Stanley Collins’ copy, with his inscription to endpaper and bookplate to pastedown, modern half cloth, original wrappers bound in, Chicago, 1905; Leaves from Conjurers’ Scrap Books, illustrations, original cloth.
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