Trost Collection. Stephen Minch, 1999, cloth bound with foil stamping, 363 pages, illustrated, illustrations by Sandra Kort.
The dust jacket reads: The contents of this volume amply support Milt Kort's reputation for baffling, entertaining and mercilessly devious magic, all done with ordinary (or ordinary seeming) objects. Whether it is cards, coins, bills or dice, when they enter Kort's hands, they are transformed into things of wonder and amusement.
Contents: Kort's Cardinal Rules of Magic, Kort's Center Steal, How It All Began, Diminishing Monte, Routines, Heir to the Throne, Quintimodo, The Off-color Twenty-one-card Trick, Kort's Color-changing Deck and much more.
Light soil to page edges. Condition very fine.