Black Magic! Fun Vintage Painted Chalkware Book with Skull and Cross Bones (and interesting provenance) hand-painted wooden blocks a perfect object

a perfect object

16 1/4" x 10 5/8"

with the introduction by Hesse added in 1927

with all if its pages perfectly in tact

a flowering plant in the coffee family with tiny white flowers

Black Magic! Fun Vintage Painted Chalkware Book with Skull and Cross Bones (and interesting provenance) hand-painted wooden blocks a perfect objectThis one made me laugh and I just couldn't resist, with the crudeness of the "Black Magic" painted across the face of the chalkware book especially doing it for me. I found it at a local antiques shop in my town of Ipswich, MA functioning as a bookend no price on it. Upon asking, I learned it was a memento from the recent filming of Stephen King's Salem's Lot in town a year or two ago, several scenes of which were shot inside the shop. (The downtown