The Magician's Own Book OR, THE WHOLE ART OF CONJURING.
Reading edition
Being a Complete Hand-Book of Parlor Magic, containing over One Thousand Optical, Chemical, Mechanical, Magnetical, and Magical Experiments, Amusing Transmutations, Astonishing Sleights and Subtleties, Celebrated Card Deceptions, Ingenious Tricks with Numbers, Curious and Entertaining Puzzles—together with all the most Noted Tricks of Modern Performers.
The whole Illustrated with over 500 Wood Cuts,
And intended as a source of Amusement for
ONE THOUSAND AND ONE EVENINGS.
12mo, cloth, 400 pages, gilt side and back stamp. Price ONE DOLLAR, sent free of postage.
Here is a book for the long winter evenings, and one that will make all merry and happy. It contains over a THOUSAND TRICKS, of every description; and they are all explained so clear and explicitly, that any person can comprehend and perform them with ease. It also contains numerous CURIOUS PUZZLES, with patterns showing how they are done, any one of which will afford amusement enough for a whole evening.
Copies sent to any address free of postage. Send Cash Orders to
DICK & FITZGERALD, 18 ANN STREET, NEW YORK.