The Ricky Jay Collection

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Carter, Charles Joseph | Your mind is an open book to the Modern Priestess of Delphi

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Carter, Charles Joseph

Carter the Great. The Modern Priestess of Delphi. Your Mind is an Open Book to Her. Cleveland: The Otis Lithograph Co., ca. 1926 (no. 4620-M)


Color lithograph poster on 3 joined sheets (overall ca. 77 x 44 in.). Light fold creases, tiny loss at upper margin, rebacked with linen.


Carter's mind-reading act.


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