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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

References

• MAGICIANS TELL THE SECRET OF FAMOUS TRICKS; Henry Hatton and Adrian Plate Give Some of Their Methods and Experiences in the Art of Mystifying the Public. New York Times, October 23, 1910
• http://magicref.tripod.com/books/hattonmagicianstricks.htm