Will Goldston's Exclusive Magical Secrets 1912 1st ed

Will Goldston's

Exclusive Magical Secrets

Publisher: The Magician Ltd.  1^st Limited deluxe edition, No. 755 (of 1000), 1912, bound in full red leather with lock and key. 

This is a very rare first edition of this very informative work.  The book is dedicated to Harry Houdini, the dedication signed in facsimile by the author.

The contents are:

Part One, Pocket Tricks;

Part Two, Drawing Room Tricks;

Part Three, Stage Tricks;

Part Five, Magical Tips;

Part Six, Harry Houdini's Tricks;

Part Seven, Buatier de Kolta -- The Expanding Cube Illusion;

Part Eight, Comedy Tricks;

Part Nine, Quick Changes;

Part Ten, Automata;

Part Eleven, Juggling;

Part Twelve, Stage Illusions.

Each part has very detailed illustrations demonstrating how the described illusions are performed.

The book is in very good condition, professionally rebacked in matching morocco with the original spine laid on.  The text block is clean and bright and tightly bound.  The brass lock works and is provided with a key, which is not the original.  Pictorial endpapers, portrait frontispiece, many line illustrations in the text. 10 inches (25cm) tall, 506 pages.

This is a wonderful book, filled with information for the amateur and professional magician alike.

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