Busby's ARCANE magazine

[Harvey Rosenthal]

I have a complete file of ARCANE (14 issues). Does anyone know what such a file in pristine condition is worth?

[DHY]

Harvey:

I can't help you with the value of ARCANE, but in a separate posting you have mentioned some unpublished manuscripts you own, that I would love to know more about.

Maybe we can talk about them privately.

DHY

[Richard Hatch]

I have a complete file of ARCANE (14 issues). Does anyone know what such a file in pristine condition is worth?

If we had such a file for sale, we'd offer it on eBay for 99 cents with no reserve and let the marketplace determine value. My guess is that it would sell for about $150-$200 currently. I believe the first 10 or so issue were non-subscription issues (only available by purchasing a certain amount of stuff from Busby during a certain time frame). I think the later issues had a cover price of $7.50, but would presumably sell for about double that now, being hard to obtain. I note that Mike Henkel does not list copies on his www.mhmagicmagazine.com website, a possible indication of scarcity.

[Harvey Rosenthal]

Richard,

Thank you for the information on ARCANE.

Karl Fulves and I were very close friends in the late 1950s through at least 1980 and were in very close contact. I have a very large library and Karl always called me to check references for him for Pallbearers, Epilogue and Chronicles.

I have two complete original issue sets of The Pallbearers Review as well a Epilogue. In addition to having the regular edition bound volumes of the three publications, I also have a deluxe edition of each of the three volumes of Pallbearers, Epilogue and Chronicles. I was just curious what the individual issues sets are worth as well as the deluxe editions of his three major hardbound publications.

Thanks in advance,

Harvey

[Frank Yuen]

A set sold on eBay about two weeks ago for $153.50. Here is the link

[Evan Shuster]

I'm still looking for issues 8, 9 & 14 if anyone has them for sale.