June Barrows Mussey (March 30, 1910 – July 27, 1985), who wrote under the

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Henry Hay, was an American

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and translator who is notable for his writing about

magic Magic or Magick most commonly refers to: * Magic (supernatural), beliefs and actions employed to influence supernatural beings and forces * Ceremonial magic, encompasses a wide variety of rituals of magic * Magical thinking, the belief that unrela ...

and

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and also of a large number of European authors including

Lion Feuchtwanger Lion Feuchtwanger (; 7 July 1884 – 21 December 1958) was a German Jewish novelist and playwright. A prominent figure in the literary world of Weimar Germany, he influenced contemporaries including playwright Bertolt Brecht. Feuchtwanger's Ju ...

. He also was one of the anonymous translators of

Hitler's Adolf Hitler (; 20 April 188930 April 1945) was an Austrian-born German politician who was dictator of Nazi Germany, Germany from 1933 until Death of Adolf Hitler, his death in 1945. Adolf Hitler's rise to power, He rose to power as the le ...

Mein Kampf (; ''My Struggle'' or ''My Battle'') is a 1925 autobiographical manifesto by Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler. The work describes the process by which Hitler became antisemitic and outlines his political ideology and future plans for Germ ...

'' (1925–26) for an American edition by the publisher Stackpole Sons. Stackpole advertised that it paid "no royalties to Hitler" and later played up the fact that the publisher was donating a percentage of the proceeds to refugee relief. 12,000 copies were printed but Stackpole had to stop selling because of a legal battle with the publisher

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who had bought the American rights.Barns, J. J., Barns, P. P. (2008). ''Hitler's "Mein Kampf" in Britain and America: A Publishing History 1930–39.'' Cambridge University Press. Mussey was born in New York and lived in West Germany after

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. He was a friend of the famous coin manipulator

Thomas Nelson Downs Thomas Nelson Downs (March 16, 1867 – September 11, 1938) was a manipulative magicians known for his coin tricks. Downs was also known as "The King of Koins". Magic historian David Price has written that Downs "was the first of the great ...

. His highly regarded ''The Amateur Magician's Handbook'' (1950) has gone through several editions and is still considered a standard reference work among magicians.

Publications

''Magic''
(1942) as Barrows Mussey *''Learn Magic'' (1947) as Barrows Mussey *'' Roll back the sea'' (1947, translator), as Barrows Mussey. The first English language edition of

Het verjaagde water (''The chased water'') is a 1947 Dutch non-fiction novel written by A. den Doolaard, which gives an account of the recovery works to repair dike breaches after the October 1944 Inundation of Walcheren as part of operations by The Allies of Wor ...

A. den Doolaard A. den Doolaard (; mk, А. ден Долард, A. den Dolard, ; 7 February 1901 – 26 June 1994) is the pseudonym of the Dutch writer and journalist Cornelis Johannes George (Bob) Spoelstra Jr. Biography Den Doolaard went to high school in ...

. *''Mein Kampf: The First Complete and Unexpurgated Edition Published in the English Language'' by Adolf Hitler. Translated anonymously. Stackpole Sons, 1939. *''Cyclopedia of Magic'' (1949) *''The Amateur Magician's Handbook'' (1950)
"The Devil in Boston: A Play about the Salem Witchcraft Trials in Three Acts (1948)" by Lion Feuchtwanger, translated by J. Barrows Mussey (ebook 2015)

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