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The Magician's Own Book

The Secret Out; OR, 1,000 TRICKS WITH CARDS AND OTHER RECREATIONS.

Reading edition

ILLUSTRATED WITH OVER 300 ENGRAVINGS.

And containing clear and comprehensive explanations how to perform with ease all the Curious Card Deceptions and Sleight-of-Hand Tricks extant. With an endless variety of Entertaining Experiments in Drawing-Room, or White Magic, including the celebrated Science of Second Sight. Together with a choice collection of Intricate and Puzzling Questions. Amusements in Chance, Natural Magic, etc., etc., etc.

By the Author of "The Sociable," "The Magician's Own Book," "Parlor Theatricals," etc.

Large 12mo, Cloth, Gilt Side and Back. Price One Dollar.

A Book which explains all the Tricks and Deceptions with Playing Cards, ever known or invented, and gives, besides, a great many new and interesting ones—the whole being described so accurately and carefully, with engravings to illustrate them, that anybody can easily learn how to practise these Tricks.

This book contains, in addition to its numerous Card Tricks above described, full and easily understood explanations of some Two Hundred and Forty of the most

Curious, Amusing & Interesting Sleight-of-Hand & Legerdemain Tricks

Ever invented, and which are illustrated with Engravings to make each trick understood with ease.

Illustration from The Magician's Own Book, or, the Whole Art of Conjuring Being a complete hand-book of parlor magic, and 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.
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