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Reprint. Paperback. 8vo. pp 205. Paperback. Original publisher's illustrated orange covers, lettered black. With the bookplate of the late Christopher Brinson, a collector of books on magic, researcher and author of works on magic (Arcady Press). The bookplate shows a sphinx with pyramids in the background and conjuring tools in the foreground including a magic wand. First published in 1905. Embracing the whole calendar of sleights that are employed by the gambler and conjurer, describing with detail and illustration every known expedient, manoeuvre and stratagem of the expert card handler, with over one hundred drawings from life by M.D. Smith. Erdnase's true identity is one of the enduring mysteries of the magic community. Slight rubbing at spine and extremities with a faint stain on the front cover and slight creasing at front lower corner, otherwise sound, used, near very good, with clean text and plates.
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Illustrated by M D Smith. Good with no dust jacket. Professionally rebound in new wraps, tone with foxing, otherwise light wear. Solid trade paperback.; An early printing of this classic manual of card sharping and sleight of hand, also know as The Expert At The Card Table. First Edition was by the author in 1902 per Michael Canick; A Price Guide To Magic Books 1639-1990, page 49; Drake took over circa 1905. No titles in the one page of publisher's ads are later than that date. Stephen Powell; A Gambling Bibliography; 598. "The one essential guidebook to attaining the highest level of card mastery, from false shuffling and card palming to dealing from the bottom and three-card monte, plus dazzling card tricks." Hard-to-find early printing of this well-regarded manual of card manipulation.; 178, 1 ad pages.
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SMITH, M.D. POOR. 4.5 X 7. Shelf wear, front cover is detached but present, stapled binding, age-toned pages, illustrations of hands and cards throughout _PAB_