Card Tricks - A Practical Treatise on Conjuring with Cards
Published on 6. September 2018
Book
Paperback/Softback
130 pages
978-0-359-07330-6 (ISBN)
Description
From the PREFACE.
TRICKS with cards are ever popular, and are within the reach of every one who cares to devote a little time to the study of sleight of hand.
Who has not watched in speechless wonderment, and longed to emulate the nimble-fingered professor IS he takes the cards in his hand and causes them to pass thence, invisibly, along his sleeve and finally alight on his white shirt front; or as he throws a card some twenty feet in the air, at an angle of 45 degrees, and causes it to return to his hand, which, during the flight of the card, has seized a pair of scissors with which the card is now severed in twain?
Much that is new appertaining to conjuring with cards has appeared of late years, which, together with a number of simple tricks of sufficient interest to keep the neophyte engrossed in the early stages of his career, it will be the province of the author in the following pages to reveal.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Morrisville
United States
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 7 mm
Weight
201 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-359-07330-6 (9780359073306)
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Person
William Ellis Stanyon (1870-1951), was born in Leicestershire, England, and started his first periodical known as 'Stanyon's Serials' in 1899. A year later he published-edited Stanyon's Magic. In the first issue of that journal, he stated that it was intention to "popularize the Art of Sleight of Hand." He succeeded, and his fame spread across the Atlantic to America, where this book was first published.