A collection of Tudor and early Stuart tracts and ballads telling of the lives and misdoings of vagabonds, thieves, rogues and cozeners, and giving some account of the operation of the criminal law....
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was an ardent spiritualist, and in this book he explains his reasons why. There are many examples of apparent psychic phenomenon described in this book that Doyle absolutely believed were real. Once belief described includes how he thought that Houdini could dematerialize, and...
Flat out one of the greatest magic books ever written, and one of the first magic books to have photographs. This new edition contains magic with coins, cards, balls, handkerchiefs, and more. Extremely well described, no detail is omitted, and the photographs are of very well known magicians perform...
The Drawing-Room Entertainer: A Practical Guide to the Art of Amateur and Semi-Professional Entertaining, With Instruction in Conjuring, Ventriloquism, Vocal and Instrumental Mimicry, etc. Second printing of second edition....
3rd Edition. Printing information on title page is as follows: Printed for A. Clark, and are to be sold by Dixy Page at the Turks-Head in Cornhill near the Royall [sic] Exchange, 1665....
The basic trick is this: a dime and a penny are placed on the palm of a spectator’s hand, which is closed over the coins. When the hand is re-opened, the dime has vanished as completely as though it had never existed. Only the penny, which the spectator may examine, remains. Easy to execute and prof...
The Book of Magic: Being a Simple Description of Some Good Tricks and How to Do Them, With Patter. A book from 1916 that covers a lot of ground. Magic with and without apparatus, with and without skill, mind reading, and black art and stage illusions. Accompanied by 73 illustrations the directions a...
Walford Bodie takes you into his world to share his views on: Hypnotism and Mesmerism Stage Hypnotism Face to Face with the Public The Occult Scale The Art of Self-Suggestion How to Produce Sleep Can You be Hypnotized The Dangers of Hypnotism The Power of Suggestion Telepathy Clairvoyance Magic Mirr...
The Bobo Lecture is interesting because it does not contain a single coin effect, for which Bobo was known. Despite this, Bobo produced a great booklet including routines with silks, a sound activated light, and Al Wheatley’s handling of the ‘Victor Eleven Card Trick’, as taught to Bobo....
David Devant was the David Copperfield of his day, and this is a book containing some of his favorite effects. Inside you will find chapters on card magic, coin magic, ball tricks, and there are two chapters on miscellaneous effects such as a torn and restored paper, and ring and rope routine....