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}}[[The Book of Magic]]: ''being a simple description of some good tricks and how to do them, with patter'' was a book for the general public written by [[A. Frederick Collins]]. | }}[[The Book of Magic]]: ''being a simple description of some good tricks and how to do them, with patter'' was a book for the general public written by [[A. Frederick Collins]]. | ||
Latest revision as of 20:32, 16 February 2012
The Book of Magic | |
Author | A. Frederick Collins |
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Publisher | D. Appleton and Company |
Publication Date | 1915 |
Language | English |
Pages | 171 |
In his book Conjuring, James Randi says this was his first book on magic, which he found at his local library after seeing Blackstone perform.
Contents
- I. MAGIC WITHOUT APPARATUS AND WITHOUT SKILL
- II. MAGIC WITH APPARATUS AND WITHOUT SKILL
- III. MAGIC WITH APPARATUS AND WITH SKILL
- IV. MAGIC WITH SKILL ONLY
- V. HOW TO DO MAGIC
- VI. SECOND SIGHT EXPERIMENTS
- VII. FEATS OF MIND READING
- VIII. SPIRITUALISTIC TRICKS
- IX. THE ART OF BLACK ART
- X. SHADOWGRAPHS AND SILHOUETTES
- XI. SOME GOOD STAGE ILLUSIONS
- XII. HELPFUL INFORMATION
- APPENDICES
- DEFINITIONS OF SOME WORDS AND TERMS USED IN THIS BOOK
- INDEX