This is from a Private Estate in Good Condition. This Hardcover has yellow aging throughout the edges of the pages and behind the hardcovers. The dust jacket is torn in half at the spine of the book.
Copyright 1953 and published by Harper & Brothers
If you could choose just one book on magic …
… I believe this would be a very worthy contender. Bruce Elliott’s Classic Secrets of Magic is a small book by modern standards: it has only twelve fairly short chapters, with each chapter focusing on a single basic effect and some variations. However, if you were to thoroughly study and learn the magic and routines contained within these chapters and nothing more, ever, you would have enough material to last a lifetime of magical performances.
Very few props are required, the sleights are straight forward, and the magic is beautiful.
CONTENTS:
Preface
- The Spectator's Card is Produced!
- Corncobs
- Water, Water, Everywhere!
- The Very Peripatetic Paddle
- Those Four Aces!
- The Miser's Dream Come True!
- The Egg Bag, Well Done
- The Two Covers, and the Four Objects....
- Billiards, Magic Style
- Razor Sharp
- The Ambitious Card!
- The Eternal Cups and Balls
In Conclusion
Appendix
Glossary
Index
