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After-Dinner Sleights and Pocket Tricks
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| After-Dinner Sleights and Pocket Tricks | |
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| Author | C. Lang Neil |
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| Publisher | C. Arthur Pearson Ltd. |
| Publication Date | 1904 |
| Language | English |
| Pages | 119 |
After-Dinner Sleights and Pocket Tricks was an inexpensive magic book of a series which became known as Yellow Perils.
Explaining and illustrating tricks by T. Nelson Downs, H. De Manche, Charles Bertram, George Stillwell, Charles Oswald Williams, and Mademoiselle Patrice. Illustrated with B&W photos and diagrams.
Editions
- First edition 1904
- Second edition 1906
- Third edition 1910
- Fourth edition 1914
- Reprint 1919
- Fifth edition 1921
Contents
- Table of Contents
- 7 Principles of Natural Magic
- 10 Manner and Gesture
- 12 The Conjurer's Clothes
- 14 The Wand
- 15 The Table
- 17 To Palm a Coin
- 19 Back and Front Palm
- 27 To Change a Coin
- 30 Coin and Glass Trick
- 31 Coin Wrapped in Paper Disappears
- 35 To Pass Ten Coins From Left into Glass Held in Right Hand
- 40 The Aerial Mint
- 44 Production of Handkerchiefs
- 48 To Produce Real Hen's Eggs
- 52 Handkerchiefs and Soup Plate
- 57 Torn and Restored Paper
- 58 Mysteriously Joined Handkerchiefs
- 65 The Changing Handkerchiefs
- 69 Ring Passed On to Stick
- 71 Tambourine Trick
- 75 Cups and Balls
- 84 Billiard Ball Trick
- 91 Subtle Vanish of Two Billiard Balls
References