Magic without Apparatus A Treatise on the Principles, Old and New, of Sleight-of-Hand with Cards, Coins, Billiard Balls, and Thimbles
Braue, Frederick ; Allen, Donna. Berkeley Heights, New Jersey: Fleming Book Company 1945. First English Language Edition. xii, [2], 527, [1] pages. 8vo. Publisher's blue cloth gult. Blue printed dust jacket with overall light fading to brown (as normal, most visible on the spine panel). Minor wear to edges and corners, small chip to top of rear panel.. Bright and clean internally noting one page with corner crease. Getting harder to find in a nice dust jacket. Near Fine / Good. Cloth. [25538]
Volume I of THE FLEMING MAGIC CLASSIC SERIES. The "first English translation of La Prestidigitation sans Appareils, which has been recognized by authorities on magic as the world's greatest treatise on legerdemain with cards, coins, billiard balls, and thimbles." (front flap).
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