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John & Pauline Mulholland
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John & Pauline Mulholland

Christmas Card

Genre

  • Conjuring

Subject

  • Christmas Card
  • Ephemera

Plot

JOHN MULHOLLAND
Christmas Card
1968
ITEM: Pauline + JOHN MULHOLLAND Christmas Card from 1968.

DETAILS: Measures 4 by 7 inches. Has a magic illustration from the early 19th century.

CONDITION: Fine.

Personal

Owner Bryan-Keith Taylor
Location Magic Library (Home)
Index 2749
Added Date Jul 01, 2017 03:06:50
Modified Date Apr 06, 2026 14:19:15

Value

Book Condition Fine

Notes

John Mulholland (1898-1970)

John Muhlholland was born in 1898 in Chicago, and was first inspired to become a magician by seeing a performance of Harry Kellar's. He moved to Manhattan as a young man with his mother. An accomplished performer by his teenage years, Mulholland went on to an impressive career as a professional magician and authority on the subject. In the 1930s, he assumed editorship of The Sphinx, at that time the world's largest and most respected magic magazine. Mulholland had an uparalleled collection of magic memorabilia and apparatus that is now largely owned by David Copperfield. Inventor of the Mulholland Box. A one-time consultant to the article on conjuring in the Encyclopedia Britannica, he is credited with helping to make magic intellectually respectable, and wrote numerous books on the subject.

Among his written works are Quicker than the Eye (1932), Story of Magic (1935), The Art of Illusion (1944), and Book of Magic (1963).