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A book for amateur and professional magicians explaining 140 tricks performed with cards, coins, balls, eggs, handkerchiefs, and other common household items with 194 black-and-white illustrations. It features tricks from [[Germain]], [[Conradi]], [[Goldston]] and [[Okito]]. | A book for amateur and professional magicians explaining 140 tricks performed with cards, coins, balls, eggs, handkerchiefs, and other common household items with 194 black-and-white illustrations. It features tricks from [[Germain]], [[Conradi]], [[Goldston]] and [[Okito]]. | ||
− | This book was rated one of the ten basic books | + | The authors drew the wrath of many fellow magicians for exposure by permitting sections to be reprinted in a magazine for boys, "St. Nicholas". |
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+ | This book became a classic and was called the 'first American general textbook' of magic by [[Henry Hay]] and rated one of the ten basic books by the historian [[H. Adrian Smith]]. | ||
== Contents == | == Contents == |
Revision as of 17:28, 17 April 2009
Magicians' Tricks, How They Are Done was a book written by well known magicians of their time, Henry Hatton (P. H. Cannon) and Adrian Plate in 1910.
A book for amateur and professional magicians explaining 140 tricks performed with cards, coins, balls, eggs, handkerchiefs, and other common household items with 194 black-and-white illustrations. It features tricks from Germain, Conradi, Goldston and Okito.
The authors drew the wrath of many fellow magicians for exposure by permitting sections to be reprinted in a magazine for boys, "St. Nicholas".
This book became a classic and was called the 'first American general textbook' of magic by Henry Hay and rated one of the ten basic books by the historian H. Adrian Smith.
Contents
- I With Cards
- II With Coins
- III With Balls and Eggs
- IV With Handkerchiefs
- V Some After-Dinner Tricks
- VI Miscellaneous Tricks
Editions
- First Edition , the Century Co., New York; 1910
- The Century Co., New York 1917
- Dover 2003
- ISBN 0486425169