This is Magic - Will Dexter

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Will Dexter covers many of the classics of magic, including levitations, cups and balls, and Houdini. It is not a book of tricks, but a book about tricks. Some general revelation is provided, but it is certainly not an exposure book. Interesting reading! It appears to be an expanded version of Dexter’s Secrets of the Conjurer’s Craft, as it has four additional chapters (Chapters 7, 12, 13, and 14). 

Contents:

1 Chapter One – The Secret from the Tomb: Dedi, the Pharaoh’s magician 5 Chapter Two – The Cups and Balls: history, a bit of how to, the 3 shell game, and other one in three mysteries 11 Chapter Three – Oracles and Robots: a look at “automation” illusions 33 Chapter Four – It’s All Done With Mirrors: Pepper’s Ghost and other stage illusions 53 Chapter Five – The Lady Vanishes: Stage vanishes 71 Chapter Six – The Trick That Never Was: On the Indian Rope Trick 89 Chapter Seven – Up in the Middle of the Air: Levitations 101 Chapter Eight – Sawing a Woman in Half  111 Chapter Nine – The Legend of Houdini 131 Chapter Ten – Marked Cards 142 Chapter Eleven – The Four Aces of Card Magic: Hofzinser, Charlier, Hull, and Hugard 161 Chapter Twelve – Think of a Number: Mathematical magic 176 Chapter Thirteen – The Sealed Mystery: mental prodigies who can calculate in their heads 187 Chapter Fourteen – Is It Second Sight?: On mentalism

• Publisher: Bell Publishing Company
• Pages: 204
• Location: New York, USA
• Dimensions: 6″x8″
• Date: 1958
• Binding: hardbound