Vintage Will Goldston GREAT TRICKS REVEALED BOOK Routledge & Kegan Paul Rare For Sale

Condition: Good. Fourth impression. Red cloth with three-color paper jacket in an archival mylar cover. Illustrated with line-drawn diagrams. Tricks and illusions involving thimbles, billiard balls, cards, handkerchiefs, pocket tricks, and others; with a chapter on the histories of magicians including Houdini, Carl Hertz, J.N. Maskelyne, Lafayette, Chung Ling Soo, and Thurston. First published in 1935Book is very good, Dust jacket complete but separated in mylar protective coverPrevious owner:Houdini Magical Hall of Fame added a new photo to the album: Interior.Karl "Kardini" McKenna, of New York, posing with the jailed Houdini mannequin at the Houdini Magical Hall of Fame's original location at 5019 Centre St. An employee of Alcoa Corp., Karl was a semiprofessional magician who performed at school assemblies and civic organizations. He retired to Fort Meyers, Florida, where he worked at a small magic shop called Pure Magic. He died on Dec. 7, 1992. (Clipping from Genii, September 1969)From the introduction by Horace Goldin:The present book is, I think, one of Will Goldston's best perhaps - the best. I am quite certain that the man who cannot learn magic from this book will never be a magician. All kinds of tricks are clearly explained and, to make quite sure that his readers will understand every word, the author has supplemented his clear explanations of tricks with numbers of equally clear illustrations. Looking through the book I find that in many places the letterpress is hardly necessary; the pictures "do the trick".I should like to add a word of advice to any young man who is making his first approach to magic by reading this book. I strongly advise him to concentrate on a few tricks at a time - only one to begin with - and to get the performance of each trick as nearly perfect as possible before he takes up the study of another. The man who performs only half a dozen tricks really well is a far finer magician than one who just manages to get through two dozen tricks. Quality - not quantity - is the thing to aim at. It is a mistake to suppose that the most difficult tricks are necessarily the best. Some of the finest tricks in the world are perfectly simple, but the simplest trick - I am not sure which it is - needs practice before it can be presented properly to an audience. Therefore, I say to all young magicians: Here, in this book, you will find plenty of material for your performances; it is up to you to do your part and practise hard; the author cannot do that for you.INTRODUCTIONCHAPTER I SOME MAGICAL RECOLLECTIONSCHAPTER II POCKET TRICKSThe Cut and Restored CottonThe Money-BoxChange!A Mysterious Match-BoxA Regular TwisterA Good ShotThe Hypnotized CigarThe Jumping MatchA New Torn Strip RestoredThe Magical MatchA Knotty ProblemCHAPTER III ROUTINES: THIMBLESA Pretty Sleight with a ThimbleThe Puzzling ThimbleCHAPTER IV CIGAR AND CIGARETTESCigar and Cigarette TricksVanishing a Lighted CigaretteManipulations with a Cigarette. The TransferThe Production of Five Lighted CigarettesA Cigarette ProducerJames Wakefield's Cigar RoutineSleights with CigarsCHAPTER V ROPEA Rope RoutineEdward Proudlock's Cut Rope RoutineCHAPTER VI BILLIARD BALLSA Billiard Ball RoutineAlbert Warby's Billiard Balls RoutineBertram's Billiard Ball TrickPatterThe Rising and Falling BallCHAPTER VII SUGGESTIONS AND ADVICESpecial Tables"If at First you Don't Succeed - - "Useful TipsSome of the Oldest TricksUseful Card TipsThe Importance of PatterA Producer is EssentialSpecializationDress CorrectlyMethods in Hat LoadingCHAPTER VIII CARD TRICKSA Good Trick PackThe Missing Card DiscoveredAn Optical IllusionThe Rising CardThe Envelope and the CardThe Hypnotized CardsAn Uncanny TrickHunter's "Spelling Bee" in Various FormsThe Spelling BeeA Fine Thought-reading TrickA Simple Card FrameA Changing Tray for a Pack of CardsThe Improved Rising CardsA Different Thought-reading TrickThe Egg and the CardA New Card FrameCHAPTER IX INDIAN AND EGYPTIAN MAGICIndian MagicEgyptian MagicCHAPTER X MISCELLANEOUS MAGICCatching Live Pigeons in the AirThe Ribbon TubeThe Note and the BalloonThe Best of All Bank-note TricksSilent Thought-readingThought-reading with NumbersA Message Read in a CrystalThe Will Goldston Thought-reading ApparatusNorman's Improved Die TrickThe Die and the HatA Production ScreenA New Production BoxA Production CanisterThe Missing WatchThe Linked RingsStreamers to FlagA Good Flag-staffKarnack's Spirit HandThe Message on the ScreenThumb-PrintsThe Magical TieThe Kellar Growth of FlowersThe Pellew Flower ProductionMagical SuggestionsThought-reading SimplifiedCHAPTER XI HANDKERCHIEF TRICKSSuggestions for a Handkerchief Production ActOne from ThreeA Novel Vanishing HandkerchiefA Bottle of Ink and a HandkerchiefA Handkerchief PistolThe Improved Ghost TubeA Mysterious HandkerchiefThe Newest Soup Plate and the HandkerchiefsHorace Goldin's Handkerchief VanishA Handkerchief and a Glass ChimneyThe Handkerchief and the Glass VaseCHAPTER XII THE MAGICAL INVENTORS - A TRIBUTECHAPTER XIII STAGE ILLUSIONSA Trick SéanceShooting an Arrow through a GirlCHAPTER XIV BLACK ART ROUTINEWill Goldston's Black Art RoutineCHAPTER XV THESE MEN MADE MYSTERYCHAPTER XVI MAGIC IN OTHER COUNTRIES1st edition 1935, 304 pages; Make sure you click on our store icon. 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