Trost Collection. By John Mulholland. 1932 1st Edition, pictorial cloth bound, 259 pages, illustrated.
Illustrations of Mohammed Bakhash Performing The Boy In The Basket Trick (color), Alexander Herrmann “Herrmann The Great” Filling A Hat With Money He Finds In The Air, Long Tack Sam Producing A Goldfish Bowl. Chapters on: Peddlers Of Wonders, Of The Old World, First Magicians In America, Books Of Magic, The Way You're Fooled, Eastern Magic, Holy Men and Jugglers, The Red Man's Magic, Romany Tricks, The Great Magicians, Those Who Get Not Their Living Thereby, Forecasting And Its Frauds, A Modern Mountebank, Near Royalty And Real.
Condition fine.