Clothbound, 288 pages with Index, plus a section at rear advertising new books for 1936. With 57 illustrations, photos, introduction by S.H. Sharpe. With contributions by 30 other Famous Magicians including Oswald Williams, Horace Goldin, Cecil Lyle.
Within some of the chapters you will find *Famous Illusions Revealed The Mascot Moth *Egg Magic *Mechanical Magic The Golliwog Ball *Billiard Ball Magic *Flower Magic and *Wines and Liqueurs from a Kettle. Chapters on: Card Magic, Billiard Ball Magic, Flower Magic, Opening Illusions, Mechanical Magic, Famous Illusions Revealed, More Famous Illusions, Egg Magic, Indian Rope Trick, Magical Mysteries, More Magical Mysteries, Magical Sketches, Masterpieces of Magic, Mental Magic, Three Unproduced Illusions, Creating An Illusion, Some Awkward Moments, Magic of My Contemporaries, Appendix.
Bookplate of Alston Cockrell. Foxing mainly on page edges, light soil to cover with some separation of cloth 1" to cover by back strip. Condition good.