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1. Card Tricks &
The Way They Are Performed.
(S.I. Stebbins, of Barnum
& Bailey
fame). A
Promotional Booklet produced for Cinco Cigars, 17 pages.
2. Conjuring for
Amateurs.
c1901.
A Practical Treatise on How to Perform Modern Tricks.
By Prof. Ellis Stanyon, 133 Pages.
Principals of Sleight of Hand, Tricks with Balls,
Coins,
Handkerchiefs, Hat Tricks,
Anti Spiritualistic Tricks, Misc tricks and Paper
Folding.
3. Indian Conjuring.
by Major Branson, 127 Pages.
Many Fakir tricks from that country,
including a
section on ‘The Indian Rope Trick’.
4. Magical
Suggestions
1921, Harry Latour, 51 pages with numerous
illustrations.
5.
Magic No Mystery
– a big book of 335 pages with conjuring tricks, with cards balls
and dice,
magic writing, performing animals etc,
sleight of hand and mechanisms, featuring numerous
illustrations.
6. Magic Up To Date.
(W. H. J. Shaw), 111 small print pages with
illustrations explaining a host
of
magic tricks and
mysteries.
7. New Era Card
Tricks.
(Roterberg) c1897, 290 pages with 204
illustrations.
Explaining everything from sleight of hand to rigged
decks.
8. On The Other Side
Of The Footlights.
An expose of Routines,
Apparatus and Deceptions
resorted to by Mediums, Clairvoyants,
Fortune
Tellers and Crystal Gazers. 124 pages of fascinating
reading.
Dedicated to Harry Kellar, published by the Heaney Magic Company.
9. Peerless
Prestidigitation,
Being A Collection of Entirely New Ideas
and Effects
in the Fascinating Art of Modern Magic. 1910, 39
pages, by Herbert De Caston,
Assisted by the 'Leading South African Magicians'.
10. Practical Mind
Reading.
c1907 a course of lessons on
thought transference, telepathy,
mental currents, mental rapport etc
‘capable of being understood, mastered and
demonstrated by
any person of average intelligence.’
101 pages.
11. Sealed Mysteries.
c1911, 34 small typeface pages
‘Explaining the
Latest Card Mysteries, and Spirit Tricks
Made Public for the First Time
with Directions for Constructing Trick
cards.’ By Burling Hull.
12. The Great
Mysteries,
Now Revealed for the First Time by
‘Oudini’.
How to escape from handcuffs, iron boiler, mail
bag, glass
case, iron box, coffin, packing case,
straightjacket and many more with
diagrams and
illustrations. 85 pages, c1909.
13. ‘Sleights’
– 31 pages, c1914 - 'A Number of Incidental Effects,
Tricks, Sleights, Moves and Passes For Purposes
Ranging From
Impromptu to Platform
Performances.' Fully
Illustrated.
14. Some Modern
Conjuring.
'A Series of Original
Experiments in the Magic Art'. 1909, 89
pages, by Donald Holmes, featuring hosts of
various magic tricks and conjuring techniques.
15. Thirty Seven
Effective After-Dinner Tricks and How To Perform
Them.
35
small typeface pages, illustrated.
16. Up His Sleeve.
by Charles Waller, 1920, 92 pages, illustrated. 'An
original creation for magicians hitherto kept up his
sleeve.' "…Here is
Real Magic",
claims the intro, …"something which would appeal to
every entertainer in search of new and workable
material."
17.
Magical Revelations.
'A Book of Exceptional Magic'. 79 Pages.
18. Houdini - The Adventurous Life of a Versatile
Artist
c1922.
19.
Different Magic.
A collection of various tricks, self published.
Unknown origin or date. 21
pages.
20.
Fifty Years In The Magic Circle 1871.
By Signor Blitz. “An account of the author’s
professional life; his wonderful tricks and feats,
with laughable incidents and adventures as a
magician, necromancer, and ventriloquist.” 485
pages.
21.
Hindu Magic.
1913. An expose. 51 pages.
22.
Magic, 1910.
“In which are given clear and concise
explanations
of all the well-known illusions as well as many new
ones.” 258 pages.
23.
Magic, 1897.
“Stage illusions and scientific diversions
including
trick photography.” 578 pages.
24.
Miscellaneous Handkerchief Tricks 1921.
43 pages.
25.
New And Original
Magic, 1922.
“Comprising a number
of novel and entertaining
effects. A fund of information for the
professional
artist and his younger brother the amateur.” 208
pages.
26.
Trix & Chatter, 1921.
“A novelty serio-comic magic-ologue
in three acts and a finale.” 292
pages.
27.
Practical Conjuring.
29 pages.
28.
Stage Illusions.
123 pages.
29.
The Art Of Magic.
1909. 364 pages.
30.
The Magic Art.
1920. 240 pages.
31.
The Magician’s Own Book 1862.
“Or the whole art of conjuring
being a complete hand
book of parlour magic with over 1,000 covered.”
394
pages.
32.
The Old And The New Magic.
1906. 391 pages.
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