Spring books, cloth bound, 288 pages, illustrated throughout.

The introduction reads: "This, Dunninger's Encyclopedia of Magic, is the largest, most complete, and undoubtedly the most important volume on magic and stage illusions ever published. It contains more explanations and information than any other combined 50 books on magic."

Many of Dunninger's illusions were revealed for the first time in these pages along with those of many famous magicians including the great Houdini. Here are sleight-of-hand tricks, mystic jugglery, telepathy stunts, spirit writing, card tricks, the production and disappearance of every imaginable sort of object and even scientific effects. All fully and clearly explained and illustrated with many hundreds of specially prepared line drawings.

Condition very fine.