The 3 Volumes are quality cloth bound with foil stamping to cover and spine. This massive work began in 1948 with 1542 pages and more illustrations than you can imagine.
If you have never seen any of these volumes let me assure you it is not purely silk alone but rather many different styles of gimmicks and apparatus that you will be surprised to see and not shown elsewhere. Even if the silk magic you perform involves but a single silk and a tip you will still greatly enjoy these books.
Rice’s Encyclopedia of Silk Magic: Volume 1, 1st Edition, Harold Rice, 1948, cloth bound with foil stamping, pages 1-520, illustrated. Chapters: The Romantic Story of Silk, Dyeing Your Own Silks, Methods of Folding Silks, Non-Apparatus Methods of Producing a Single Silk, Apparatus Methods of Producing a Single Silk, Non-Apparatus Quantity Productions, Apparatus Quantity Productions, Vanishes, Changes and Transpositions.
Rice's Encyclopedia of Silk Magic: Volume 2, 1st Edition, Harold Rice, 1953, cloth bound with foil stamping, pages 521-1053, illustrated. Chapters: Penetrations, Color Changes, Color Changing Silks, Silk Dyeing, Reel Magic, Reel-less Magic and Twentieth Century Silks.
Rice's Encyclopedia of Silk Magic: Volume 3, 1st Edition, Harold Rice, 1962, cloth bound with foil stamping, pages 1054-1542, illustrated. Chapters: Sympathetic Silks, Blendo Effects, "Naughty" Silks, Silks and Eggs, Soup Plates and Silks, Silks and Candles, "Openers" and Jap Hank Box.
All have a protective clear plastic overlay. Condition very fine. |