Hill, Ed; Bob Schoof; Andrew J. Pinard (editors): The Yankee Magic Collector #1-17 ©1983-2014 New England Magic Collectors Association Softcover, perfect-bound, various pages

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Comments: Note - you can view the contents of all the Yankee Magic Collector volumes at their website: http://nemca.com

Contents (from book ToC, numbers are not page numbers):

The Yankee Magic Collector; Issue #1; 1983; Ed Hill & Bob Schoof; 59 pages

1 Ten Basic Treatises of Magic (H. Adrian Smith)
2 How I Became a Collector and Didn't Know It (Herb Downs)
3 A Brief Summary of the Writing Career of Walter B. Gibson compiled (William V. Rauscher and submitted by Wendel Gibson)
4 The Fay Family Fight (Barry H. Wiley)
5 Future Collectables Currently Available - A Column for Beginning Collectors (Ronald P. Dutton)
6 Arthur Lloyd, The Human Card Index (Chet Karkut)
7 The Collectors' Historical Display (Patricia R. Hill)
8 Taylor the Wizard (E. Cooper Taylor III)
9 Field Notes: on collecting & more...(Jerry Fields)
10 Magic on Display - A guide to displays, collections, and performances of collecting interest easily accessible to the magic collector (Ed Hill)
11 So You Want to be a Collector? (Ron Allesi)
12 My Passion - Magic Sets (Hans-Guenter Wittus-Witt)
13 The Strange Case of the "Spirit" Photograph (John Henry Grossman)
14 The Constitution and Bylaws of the New England Magic Collectors Association drafted (H. Adrian Smith and Ed Hill, September 1980)
15 Account of the Meetings of the New England Magic Collectors Association (Ed Hill)
16 NEMCA Membership Roster

The Yankee Magic Collector; Issue #2; ©1985; Ed Hill & Bob Schoof; 80 pages

1 Swan Squack (Henry Hay (Barrows Mussey))
2 A Recollection of Howard Thurston (Dr. John Henry Grossman)
3 Taylor the Wizard Part 2 (E. Cooper Taylor III)
4 On the Trail of the Swami Writer (Craige McComb Snader, Jr.)
5 Evolution of Magic Shows (Tan Hock Chuan)
6 Mandrake the Magician - The Movie (Fr. Cyprian, O.F.M., Cap.)
7 Dr. Stanley Jaks - A Preliminary Perusal (Barry H. Wiley)
8 Future Collectibles (Dr. Ron Dutton)
9 An Evening with the Fenners (Irv Weiner)
10 Hofzinser on Bosco (Richard Hatch)
11 Magic on Display (Ed Hill)
12 Field Notes (Jerry Fields)
13 Arthur Lloyd Portrayals (Dr. Morris Young)
14 The First Club for Magic Collectors (F. William Kuethe, Jr.)
15 New England Magic Collectors Association
16 - Meeting Topics
17 - Magic Art Theater (photo)
18 - Constitution
19 - Bylaws
20 - Membership Roster
21 - Membership Photo

The Yankee Magic Collector; Issue #3; ©1988; Ed Hill & Bob Schoof; 80 pages, plus 28-page supplement

1 The Mysterious Morphets (James B. Alfredson)
2 Who Was Rufus Steele? (Robert Parrish)
3 Items of Conjuring Interest in the Royal Library at Copenhagen (Edwin A. Dawes)
4 Sagamore Hill Portrait of Houdini (Morris N. Young)
5 Future Collectables Currently Available: A Column for Beginning Collectors (Ronald P. Dutton)
6 The Traveling Magician (Jerry Fields)
7 Early Automaton Clocks Featuring Magicians (Orville R. Hagans and Ed Hill)
8 Creation of a Magic Library and a Study in Early Magic Books, Part 1 of 2 (H. Adrian Smith)
9 Priceless Gifts (Irv Weiner)
10 De La Mano, Master of Mystery (Jackie Monticup)
11 Almost a Movie Star (Robert Lund)
12 Early Magic Sets from the Collection of Dr. John Henry Grossman)
13 Washington Simmons from Will Alma's Australian Magic Review, May 1972)
14 Magic on Display (Ed Hill)
15 Memories of an Erstwhile Bay-Stater (Ken Trombly)
16 NEMCA Member Roster

17 Supplement
18 John Henry Anderson, Wizard of the North from the researched files of the "Alma Conjuring Collection," State Library of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia (Will Alma, M.I.M.C., Honorable Curator)

The Yankee Magic Collector; Issue #4; ©1990; Ed Hill & Bob Schoof; 84 pages

1 A Letter from Signor Blitz (John Henry Grossman)
2 Howard Thurston's Card Tricks (John Booth)
3 Douglas Geoffrey Mackintosh, Hardeen, Jr., May 29, 1907 - January 14, 1990, Successor to Hardeen (William V. Rauscher)
4 Colourful Collecting (Edwin A. Dawes)
5 Cataleptic Fit (Morris N. Young)
6 June Barrows Mussey (Harold F. Puff and Edith Puff)
7 Mary Tofts, Patron Saint (Sheila Lyon)
8 Magic on Display (Ed Hill)
9 E. Cooper Taylor and His Fellow Touring Magicians of 1869 (E. Cooper Taylor III)
10 Creation of a Magic Library and a Study in Early Magic Books, Part 2 of 2 (H. Adrian Smith)
11 A First Down Under (James B. Alfredson)
12 Teen-Age Conjuring Periodicals in the Years 1960-1969 (Stephen A. Fernandes)
13 Future Collectables Currently Available: A Column for Beginning Collectors (Ronald P. Dutton)
14 NEMCA Membership Roster
15 Memories of Yankee Gathering II (photographs)

The Yankee Magic Collector; Issue #5; ©1992; Ed Hill & Bob Schoof; 108 pages

1 Magic on Display (Ed Hill)
2 I Remember... (Richard Sim)
3 H. Adrian Smith Remembered: A Panorama of Magical History and Literature, A selection from the collection of H. Adrian Smith, John Hay Library, Brown University, Providence Rhode Island (Ed Hill)
4 Three Twentieth Century 'Phantom' Books or "Ones That Never Were" (Edwin A. Dawes, M.I.M.C.)
5 A New Editor for Zombie (Stephen A. Fernandes)
6 Future Collectables Currently Available: A Column for Beginning Collectors (Ronald P. Dutton)
7 Basil the Baffling and The Famous Boston Magicians (Alan Wassilak)
8 Can Computers Look into Yesteryear?  A Challenge for Our Readers (Craige McComb Snader, Jr.)
9 Max Malini and The Charles Diamond Story, As told (Harry Kellar to Silent Mora and passed on to Eddie "Tex" McGuire (Max Malini's First and Only Personal Manager) at the Long Island Hospital, Boston, MA, Monday, Sept. 24, 1962 compiled (Ed Hill)
10 Periodical Updates (Ray Ricard)
11 Houdini in Popular Magazines and Contemporary Newspapers (Stephen Forrester in collaboration with Frank Koval)
12 NEMCA Membership Roster

The Yankee Magic Collector; Issue #6; ©1994; Ed Hill & Bob Schoof; 160 pages

1 John Henry Grossman - A Tribute: Magic on Display (Ed Hill)
2 Some Notes and a Query on Fischer's Wunderbuch (James B. Alfredson)
3 Scimitar: The Mystery of Its Inventor (John Booth)
4 A Thrilling Encounter With a Sixteenth-Century Magician (Edwin A. Dawes)
5 Future Collectables Currently Available: A Column for Beginning Collectors (Ronald P. Dutton)
6 New England Conjuring Periodicals (Stephen A. Fernandes)
7 Magic's Little White Lies (George Johnstone)
8 The End of the Willard Show (Robert Parrish)
9 The Works of James Black Findlay (Ray Ricard)
10 Research - It Isn't Easy! (E. Cooper Taylor III)
11 Magnetic Girls or The Power Behind the Throne (Barry H. Wiley)
12 To Eye Your Books (Morris N. Young)
13 The Prophecies of Nostradamus 1503-1566 (Stephen Forrester)
14 Mini Museum Section - Pathway to Magic History: Ray Goulet's Mini Magic Museum (Bob Roth)
15 Mini Museum Section - The Connoisseurs Of Magic (William V. Rauscher)
16 NEMCA Membership Roster

The Yankee Magic Collector; Issue #7; ©1996; Ed Hill & Bob Schoof; 172 pages

1 Magician of the Holocaust (William V. Rauscher)
2 The Resurrection of Willie Dee, Jr. - A Personal Account (Alan Wassilak)
3 Souvenir of a Great American Magician: Balabrega (Enrique Jiménez-Martinez)
4 Conjuring Periodicals: A Contemporary Checklist (Stephen A. Fernandes)
5 Future Collectables Currently Available: A Column for Beginning Collectors (Ronald P. Dutton)
6 My Great Aunt, Bess Houdini (John Hinson)
7 New Information on the Philip (Prentice) Anderson - Phillip C. Davis Connection (Brian McCullagh)
8 Magic on Display (Ed Hill)
9 Secrets (William P. Miesel)
10 Postmark: The Isle of Wight, Some Lines from James B. Findlay (Edwin A. Dawes)
11 Production and Vanish: The Herrmann Years in American Magic (Bob Roth)
12 Regarding Old Magic Shops and Dealers, Including a List of New England Shops and Dealers Prior to 1960 (Richard Steven Cohn)
13 Collecting Modern & Antiquarian Rarities Today (Ray Ricard)
14 Brothers-in-Law for an Evening (Morris N. Young)
15 Memories of Yankee Gathering V, November 3-5, 1994 (Frank Dudgeon)
16 NEMCA Membership Roster

The Yankee Magic Collector; Issue #8; ©1998; Ed Hill & Bob Schoof; 220 pages

1 Brilliant Magic with Beautiful Birds: It's Development (John Booth)
2 The Ultimate Magic Coin (Harold F. Puff and Edith Puff)
3 Houdini's Pocket Watch (John Hinson)
4 The History of Punch & Judy in Baltimore (Mark Walker)
5 Houdini's Stand for Justice: A Performer's Plucky Protest (Brian Lead)
6 Magical Challenges of a Century Ago (Enrique Jiménez-Martinez)
7 Secrets II (William P. Miesel)
8 The Humorous Tales of Dixey (David Meyer)
9 The Mysterious Mr. Frampton, An Untold Tale of the James B. Findlay Auction of 1979 (Edwin A. Dawes)
10 Multiple Use Magic Addresses (Richard Steven Cohn)
11 Houdini Once Was There (Morris N. Young)
12 Concerning Periodicals Within Periodicals: A Starter List (Stephen A. Fernandes)
13 A Fussin' And A Feudin' (George Johnstone)
14 The Houdini Club of Philadelphia (Tom Ewing)
15 Some Glimpses of Arthur Buckley (Brian McCullagh)
16 The Midget Magician (Marya F. Grossman)
17 Unusual Sources of Legerdemain Works Not in Toole Stott (Ray Ricard)
18 The Presto Club, Sponsored (Herb Downs (Dave Downs)
19 Future Collectables Currently Available: A Column for Beginning Collectors (and their mentors) (Ronald P. Dutton)
20 Memories of Yankee Gathering VI (Frank Dudgeon)
21 The Brotherhood of Magicians 1905-1918: A Chronological History (Ann Myrece James)
22 NEMCA Membership Roster

The Yankee Magic Collector; Issue #9; ©2000; Ed Hill & Bob Schoof; 144 pages

1 ALGI, Congenial Robot (Morris N. Young)
2 The Legacy (Houdini collection) (Sid Radner)
3 Cesareo Pelaez (Webster Bull and Avrom Surath)
4 Who was Professor Thomas Kenney? (E. Calvin Corey)
5 The Magicians of "Old Sleuth's Own" Series ("Mabel")
6 Hand Shadows and Shadow Pantomimes (Ray Ricard)
7 The Life and Adventures of Valentine Vox (Stephen Forrester)
8 Magic Instructions for the Masses (Publications circa 1900) (Ed Hill)
9 Now if I'd Only Known that at the Time! (Chas. Bertram) (Edwin A. Dawes)
10 The First Three Books Published in Magic in Australia (Brian McCullagh)
11 Value: A Labor of Love (C.F. Fenner's Martinka Shop Model) (Alan Wassilak and Ed Hill with Richard Sim)
12 Spoof, You're a Magazine (Stephen A. Fernandes)
13 Two Ventriloquists of the 19th Century (Enrique Jiménez-Martinez)
14 Memories of Yankee Gathering VII (Frank Dudgeon)

The Yankee Magic Collector; Issue #10; ©2002; Ed Hill & Bob Schoof; 126 pages

1 Yankee Gathering VIII, Revisited (Frank Dudgeon)
2 Magical Mascots & Catalog Characters (Richard Steven Cohn)
3 Fraudulent Mediums Unable to Escape Houdini in Philadelphia (Walter B. Gibson, submitted (Tom Ewing)
4 The Joy of Reading Somebody Else's Mail (Maurine Brooks Christopher)
5 Danish Delight: Magic and the Barly Circus Museum (Edwin A. Dawes)
6 From June to T.N.D. (Harold F. Puff)
7 "Realizing" Historical Documents for Reproduction (Andrew J. Pinard)
8 Magic Magazines: There's Just No End! (Stephen A. Fernandes)
9 Fernandes, Briefly Augmented (Bruce Dunn)
10 A Variant Cover of Prof. Hoffmann's  Drawing Room Conjuring (Stephen Forrester)
11 Hoffman Card Game Booklets (Ray Ricard)
12 E Pluribus Unum Magica or, the career of the McManus-Young collection (Morris N. Young)
13 C. Foster Fenner: Rhode Island's Prince of Magic (Ed Hill)
14 Finis Robinson: A Mini-Biography (E. Calvin Corey)
15 Magical Doctors of Gone Days (Enrique Jiménez-Martinez)
16 Magical Mascots & Catalog Characters Solutions)
17 NEMCA Member Roster

The Yankee Magic Collector; Issue #11; ©2004; Ed Hill & Andrew J. Pinard; 170 pages

1 P&L: "The House Where Tricks are Born" (John Henry Grossman)
2 A Unique Possession (E. Calvin Corey)
3 Inside Houdini (Milbourne Christopher)
4 John Calvert: Legend of Legerdemain (William V. Rauscher)
5 The Great McEwen: A Little of the Mystery Solved (Brian McCullagh)
6 Coincidence or... (William P. Miesel)
7 Decremps, Pinetti, Denton & The Conjurors Magazine (Stephen James Forrester)
8 The "Write" Stuff (Stephen A. Fernandes)
9 The Voice from the Attic: The Latest Update (Bruce Dunn)
10 Kellar and Herrmann in Mexico in 1888 (Enrique Jiménez-Martinez)
11 The Houdini Scrapbook: At the Rare Books and Manuscripts Department of the Boston Public Library (Robert Roth)
12 Danar of the Magi (Gary Hunt)
13 Witchcraft: The Young Conjurer and his First Magic Catalogue (Edwin A. Dawes)
14 Dr. Morris N. Young: An Honored Memory (Frank Dudgeon)
15 Who Put the Magic in the Movies? (Richard Steven Cohn)
16 Thomas W. Yost: Philadelphia's First Magic Shop (Tom Ewing)
17 NEMCA Member Roster

The Yankee Magic Collector; Issue #12; ©2006; Ed Hill & Andrew J. Pinard; 126 pages

1 Initial Checklist of Articles on Ray and Ann Goulet (Frank Dudgeon)
2 Alexander Herrmann in Mexico in 1877 (Enrique Jiménez-Martinez)
3 Who was Li Chung Soo? (Edwin A. Dawes, M.I.M.C.)
4 Harry Kellar, The First Goodwill Ambassador to Texas (Ron Cartlidge)
5 The History of the Cups Used For the Cups and Balls From Ancient Rome to the Present (Bill Palmer, M.I.M.C.)
6 Some Basic Principles of Descriptive Bibliography; or, What's the Issue Here, and Why So Many States of Confusion? (Clay H. Shevlin)
7 Comic Books in Magic (Ray Ricard)
8 Magic Postage Stamps (Brian McCullagh)
9 Collecting Anverdi Magic (Chuck Caputo)
10 New England Convention of Magicians — Registration $3.50 (E. Calvin Corey)
11 NEMCA Member Roster

The Yankee Magic Collector; Issue #13; ©2008; Ed Hill & Andrew J. Pinard; 106 pages

1 The Search for Charles C. LeBey (Tom Ewing)
2 Balabrega's Last Tour and Death (Ary Bezerra Leite)
3 The Magician and the Anarchist (Nick Miller)
4 Hope Eden: The World's Smallest Mentalist! (Ron Cartlidge)
5 New Discoveries about Reginald Scot (Stephen Forrester, BEd, CJL)
6 Frank Van Hoven and the Two to Three to Four Stooges (Stephen Rogers, PhD)
7 Bill King: Collector Extraordinaire (Terry Harris)
8 Feldman Presents Thurston (William V. Rauscher)
9 "My Merry" Beginning in Magic (Ed Hill)
10 Rare & Scarce Magic Books in Russian  (Ray Ricard)
11 NEMCA Member Roster

The Yankee Magic Collector; Issue #14; ©2010; Andrew J. Pinard; 210 pages
(This stunning issue of YMC is the first to use extensive color throughout)

1 Box 12: Houdini’s Love Letters (Ron Cartlidge)
2 Non-English Magic Periodicals (Stephen A. Fernandes)
3 Once Upon a Time in Chicago (Chuck Romano)
4 Jay Marshall’s "One-Day" and "Someday" Book Projects (David Meyer)
5 A Trip to the Hippodrome: Kellar’s Farewell Performance (Tom Ewing)
6 Early References to Ventriloquism (1584 to 1834) (Stephen Forrester)
7 Magic Postage Stamps: Update 2010 (Brian McCullagh)
8 Much More Than Cakes and Ale! George Daniel, Merrie England in the Olden Time and its Extra-Illustrated Copies (Edwin A. Dawes and Clay H. Shevlin)
9 Alexander Herrmann in Mexico: 1888 (Enrique Jiménez-Martinez)
10 The Dig Starts at Midnight  (Daniel Waldron)
11 Also includes Contributor Biographies, Image Sources, Request for Submissions & NEMCA Member Roster)

The Yankee Magic Collector; Issue #15; Andrew Pinard; 162 pages
Companion publication for Yankee Gathering 14.

1 Memories of Yankee Gathering XIII (Frank Dudgeon)
13 A Couple of Tales about the Other Brother (Jim Alfredson)
17 J.W. Cadwell: The Mesmerist (Barry H. Wiley)
31 The 100th Anniversary of the Death of Ten-Ichi (Mitsunobu Matsuyama)
43 My Visit to the Robert-Houdin Museum in Blois (Stephen Forrester)
55 Endless Editions (David Meyer)
63 Stillwell and the Mystical Process (Tom Ewing)
73 Gold Rush Magicians (Leo Behnke)
81 Magicians as Heroes and Villains on Television (Thomas Blacke)
87 Remembering Dunninger (Wendel Gibson)
91 "Pulp"-lishers (Ray Ricard)
107 The Magic of Manila and Posada (Enrique Jiménez-Martínez)
139 Contributor Biographies
143 Image Sources
145 Request for Submissions
149 NEMCA Member Roster

The Yankee Magic Collector; Issue #16; Andrew Pinard; 220 pages
Companion publication for Yankee Gathering 15.

1 Memories of Yankee Gathering XIV (Frank Dudgeon)
2 Rouclere Jr. Strikes Back! (George Daily)
3 Famous Unknowns (Leo Behnke)
4 The True Identity of Rubini and Philip Prentice Anderson (Edwin A. Dawes)
5 The Accidental Discovery (Michael E. Rose)
6 Adrien Jr.'s American Tour: 1838-1840 (Gary Hunt)
7 Masters of the Tell-Tale Hand (Barry H. Wiley)
8 The Historical Roots of the Con Game (Loren Pankrantz, Ph.D.)
9 Houdini and the Hippodrome (William V. Rauscher)
10 Houdini's "The Unmasking Of..." (Arthur Moses)
11 The Harry Houdini Collection: Boxes 7-9 & 19 (Ron Cartlidge)
12 Dispersing the Newmann Collection (David Meyer)
13 Ray Styles and Tampa II (Tom Ewing)
14 Edward Bagshawe (Nathan Kranzo)
15 The First American Edition of Breslaw: 1797 (Ray Ricard)
16 Washington Irving Bishop In Mexico (Enrique Jiménez-Martínez)

The Yankee Magic Collector; Issue #17; Andrew Pinard; 2014; 196 pages
Companion publication for Yankee Gathering 16.

1 Reflections from The Editor (Andrew J. Pinard
2 Memories of Yankee Gathering XV (Frank Dudgeon)
3 Collectors and Collectors (Leo Behnke)
4 The Performer as Collector (Michael E. Rose)
5 Harold Adrian Smith: An Overview and Some Personal Recollections (Edwin A. Dawes)
6 The Fakir Harry (Enrique Jiménez-Martínez)
7 MagicAL Marks (William V. Rauscher)
8 Otto Maurer’s Magical Bazaar (Tom Klem)
9 The Grim Game (Ron Cartlidge)
10 Blackstone’s Magic Trick of the Month Club (George Daily)
11 Reminiscing Magically (Leo Behnke)
12 Fred “Manipo” Harris (Mark Walker)
13 Ann Kenyon: Lady Magician and Card Manipulator(Michael Claxton)
14 Houdini’s 1986 Tour of Canada: “The Secrets of Houdini Exposed!” (Kent Cummins, A.I.M.C. Silver Star)
15 Provenance (David Meyer)
16 Cataloguing Goldston (Joe Bunch)
17 Some Unusual Early Pulps on Magic (Ray Ricard)