DeLand: Mystery and Madness

Washiunbgton, D.C.: Kaufman and Pitchford, 2018. Laminate boards. Fine. An immaculate copy of the 2018 stated 1st edition. Clean and Fine in its red laminate boards, with a pristine example of the matching red pictorial slipcase. Thick, tall quarto, hundreds and hundreds of crisp color and black-and-white illustrations throughout. Lacking the 54 "gimmicked" cards. Designed by Brad J. Aldridge, edited by Ken Silverman, Tom Ransom, Matthew Field, Bill Mullins and Dustin Stinett. An exhaustive biography of Theodore DeLand (1865-1953), one of the leading magicians of his day, a man who scaled the heights of his profession only to be committed to and live out his life in an insane asylum in Norristown, PA.