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2 volumes together. Comprising:

• The Mirror of Magic. [2], 504 pp. 250 Illustrations. Black cloth lettered in silver with silver-stamped cover sigil, jacket. First Edition.
• The History of Magic. [2], 504 pp. 250 Illustrations. Black cloth lettered in gilt on spine, with blind-stamped cover sigil, top edge stained red, jacket. Variant issue.

Kurt Leopold Seligmann was a Swiss-American Surrealist painter and engraver. He was known for his fantastic imagery of medieval troubadors and knights in macabre rituals and inspired by the carnival held annually in his native Basel, Switzerland. At the outbreak of World War II in September 1939, Seligmann arrived in New York for an exhibition of his work at the Karl Nierendorf Gallery. Once there, however, with Surrealist artists being targeted by Nazis, he began to aid those in France and bring them to safety.