Trost Collection. Walter Gibson's Big Book Of Magic For All Ages, With over 150 easy to perform tricks using everyday objects. Walter Gibson, 1980, cloth bound, gilt stamping, 231 pages, illustrations.

Chapters on: How To Create A Simple Yet Challenging Act, The Performance: Presenting A Complete Act, Tricks with Rope, String and Handkerchiefs - Introduction: Harry Blackstone, Dinner-table Magic - Introduction: T. Nelson Downs, Bafflers and Participation Tricks - Introduction: Harry Houdini, Mental Magic and Messages - Introduction: Joseph Dunninger, Money Magic - Introduction: Horace Goldin, Tricks with Cards - Introduction: Cardini, A Hatful Of Miscellaneous Tricks - Introduction: The Great Raymond, Special Tricks for a Complete Act - Introduction: Howard Thurston.

Dust jacket reads: Each trick is clearly illustrated in a straightforward and humorous way and there are a tremendous variety: card tricks, tumbler tricks, coin tricks, scarf and rope tricks, mental magic and tricks that can be performed alone or with a partner. In the introduction to each section Walter Gibson reminisces about great magicians of the past. Throughout the book are sections devoted to developing showmanship and finesse so important to the effectiveness of magic.

Soil to page edges. Condition fine.