Trost Collection. The Art Of Modern Conjuring And Drawing Room Entertainment, Fully Illustrated With Photographic Plates. 1909, pictorial cloth bound, gilt stamping, 222 pages with photo plates and illustrations. Authorship credit is stated "By a Modern Magician". Publisher Reilly & Britton Company Chicago.

Chapters on: Introductory Hints, The Dress, Servantes, Pulls And Apparatus, Card Tricks, Coin Tricks, Handkerchief Tricks, Tricks With Chemicals, Parlour Tricks, Hat Tricks, Mesmeric And Magnetic Tricks, Advanced Tricks (Birds shot from a bag into a cage, Conjurer's Pistol, Colour-Changing Billiard Balls, Fire Eating, Flying Bird-Cage to name a few), Miscellaneous Tricks (Glove and Head, False finger for palming or producing, Magical Key and Ring, Optical Illusion with A Ring, A Watch and an Monkey to name a few), Tricks With Matches And Numerals, Shadowgraphy, Second Sight, Programmes, List Of Illustrations. Some quite unusual items will be found within such as to change the complexion from white to black and to displace water by smoke.

Foxing first few pages in, soil to page edges. Condition very good.