This is from a Private Estate in Good Condition.  The dust jacket's edges are full of wear and tear along the edges and spine. There is a fading of color on the spine and edges of the dust jacket.  The hardcover book's pages are yellow from age and some slight fading of color on the top of the front hardcover.

Fourth Edition 1946

The standard textbook on how to become a magician. Sleight-of-hand feats and tricks with apparatus from amateur and professional conjurers, and for both parlor and stage performance. 

When professional magicians of the caliber of Harry Kellar and David Devant acknowledge their indebtedness to a treatise on conjuring, it is obvious that that book has genuine merit. Such a book is Sleight-of-Hand by Edwin T. Sachs, one of the earliest works on magic in English and still one of the best, the fourth edition of which is now published as Volume II of The Fleming Magic Classic Series. 

Mr. Sachs was himself an able and enthusiastic performer, and he wrote of things about which he had first-hand knowledge, dealing with both pure sleight-of-hand and tricks with apparatus. Most of his explanations are as fresh - and as valuable - as though they were penned only yesterday. His treatment of the standard feats of magic (many of which occupy prominent positions in magicians' programs today) has never been excelled, if indeed equaled. 

The entire book has been edited by Paul Fleming, who has provided a preface and an extensive index and has added footnotes which refer to scores of later versions of the great masterpieces of magic. The 57 illustrations of the original edition have been replaced by 131 line drawings, which contribute to the clarity and attractiveness of the text.