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A booklet by P.T Selbit offering guidance on performance patter and presentation for magicians. It includes tips to enhance audience engagement and create memorable magical effects. The reader will find this volume witty and amusing. Copyright Circa 1920, Hamley Brothers, Ltd, London Softcover, saddle-stitched, 6x9", 14 pages, plus ads, in good condition.

Hardback. First. St Marys Books is proud to present this lovely circa 1901 edition of The Magicians Handbook A Complete Encyclopedia of the Magicians Art for Professional and Amateur Entertainers by Selbit This hardback copy is bound in a lovely olive green cloth and features black ink lettering and illustrations to the cover and spine Inside one finds 198 pages of text supplemented by a mixture of instructional and whimsical black ink illustrations This book is in fair condition the cover is worn the spine is weak and is held together with tape there is foxing throughout the book and many inscriptions to the title page however much of the damage is more than fair given the age of the copy This edition is looking for a new home and would be a lovely gift to any budding magiciansnbsp. book.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. Third Edition. Hardback. 8vo. pp 188 + 10pagse publishers advertisements. Some dicolouration and mottling rubbing and slight marks to covers. Good. 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. Well illustrated throughout with drawings and photos.Illusuions, 'black arts', 'black magic', quite alot on juggling, good mention of contemporaries Trewey, Valadon, Wm C Fields, Chung Ling Soo, Hoard Thurston (inc an article by him on playing card manipulation.) Selbit's biggest illusion was developed later -- sawing a woman in half. .

2nd ed. Lacks free end papers; several 'The Magician's Club' stamps, & 'presented by.' stamp on half-title page; owner's annotation on back pastedown; binding a little weak; board corners & spine worn; cloth discoloured & a little stained Used - Acceptable. Fair hardback in green cloth Used - Acceptable. Fair hardback in green cloth.

188, IV p., with many illus., 8°, Illus. O-Cloth Main-contents: The Art of Juggling; The Tricks and Illusions of Modern Magicians (Photographs and Memoirs of the Contributers, Tricks and Illusions); New Illusions and Black Magic. - Percy Thomas Tibbles alias P. T. Selbit (1881-1938) was an English magician and inventor. He was the first person who performed the illusion of sawing a woman in half on stage (in 1921). Between 1902 and 1908 he acted as "pseudo-Egyptian" under the name Joad Heteb and later he created the name Selbit by spelling his last name backwards. He also published "The Magical Entertainer " and the "The Magic Art of Entertaining", as well from 1905 to 1910 he edited the magazine "The Wizard" (later The Magic Wand). - Cover is slightly knocked and a bit dusty; book is slightly warped by usage; pages are very slightly browned; little smell of smoke; else a really good copy.