Thirty-Two Rare Vintage Magic
Tricks
& Conjuring Books!
(Formerly 18x now a massive 32x Vintage Magic Books Scanned to Disc)

Presented on a CD in a convenient
Adobe Reader format for all systems.

 Hundreds of magic tricks, illusions, sleights of hand and mysterious prestidigitations now combined together in a unique and convenient disc collection!

   Learn from the famous old master illusionists how to amuse and completely mystify your friends and relations. Many, many hours of fascinating reading offered here at an incredible bargain price! Each book can be read individually at your leisure.

 This fascinating collection of rare magic books includes….

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.


 Note to buyers. Although the underlying individual book material is now in the public domain due to their age,  much additional editing, cropping and deleting of erroneous material has been carried out personally, making this a unique and a much improved offering. It is provided here at a particularly low cost, mainly to cover materials such as the disk and label plus expenses.

 It is now presented in a convenient Adobe Reader form (.pdf files) suitable for all computer systems. This allows for all the essential illustrations and photos to be shown as opposed to the text only versions sometimes offered for download. The Adobe reader is completely free from the Adobe web site, although it usually comes pre-installed anyway on most computers. This collection includes both privately owned material plus ex libris volumes.

* NO resale or distribution rights are included in the price.
The disk may not be copied, distributed or sold.

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