Description: Good overall condition, some staining on cover. Pages yellowed and slightly brittle. Hard to find material. From the estate of a local area magician. Any questions just ask. Will ship with extra care. CBX --- Robert Nelson (1901-1973), founder of Nelson Enterprises (and Bob Nelson's Magic Shop) in Columus, Ohio, specialized in mentalism. Nelson Enterprises was founded on February 10th, 1921[1] to supply props and instructions for performing mentalism on stage, as well as tools and supplies for those who pitched metaphysical lectures at public venues, and those who served private reading clients. Much of the artwork in the annual Nelson catalogues was provided by Nelson C. Hahne, who signed his art as "NH" or as "Nelson." During the 1940s, Robert Nelson purchased the entirety of Claude Alexander Conlin's stage act and remaining chromolithographic posters and sold them to performers, including Leon Mandrake, who used them to bill himself as Alexander, The Man Who Knows. Nelson operated the "Voice of Destiny" radio program as Dr. Korda RaMayne for seven years and performed a crystal-gazing act as "RaMayne." He also published pitch books for mentalists, private readers, astrologers, and numerologists under the RaMayne name, though his Psychic Sciences publishing wing. The company's printing department maintained its own staff to serve pitchmen and private office mentalists. Nelson's "Tomorrowscope" service, for instance, provided natal horoscope readings assembled from pre-printed sheets selected for each birth date and year, delivered to astrologers all around the United States by air-mail with a three-day turn-around. Likewise, for a slight additional fee, the RaMayne booklets could be purchased with the default author's name removed and the buyer's own name surprinted on the cover. Nelson helped organize the Howard Thurston IBM Ring, the Columbus Magic Club, and the Magic Hobby Club of Ohio, and he served as president of all three.[2] He maintained a small demonstration theater in his shop. He was a prolific author of mentalism books.
Price: 59.99 USD
Location: Saint Augustine, Florida
End Time: 2025-01-12T22:54:33.000Z
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Genre: Magic
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