The Amateur's Guide to Magic and Mystery and The Black Art Fully Exposed

New York: J.S. Ogilvie Publishing Company, 1885. Very Good -. New York: J.S. Ogilvie Publishing Company, n.d., ca. 1885. Small octavo (18.5cm); publisher's cream pictorial wrappers; 58,[5]-58pp. (complete despite error in pagination); illus. throughout. Wrapper margins a bit chipped and creased with light fading to upper cover spine edge, textblock uniformly browned as usual, else Very Good.

Dime novel-like guide to magic and mystery, the upper cover adorned with a cheeky devil/magician surrounded by the flock of doves. The second portion of the volume devoted to "The Black Art, Fully Exposed and Laid Bare.