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i have a rare book 1910 edition the modern art of conjuring the tricks in it are amazing could anyone tell me if they have had this book before or know of a 1910 edition david blanes card through window trick is in it and many more it has step by step instructions on how to build the apparatus and how to do the triks

Could you repeat that slowly?

Jeez, Blaines looking F******G good for his age isnt he!!


an authors name, would be almost as welcome as punctation.

morbeus wrote:i have a rare book 1910 edition the modern art of conjuring the tricks in it are amazing could anyone tell me if they have had this book before or know of a 1910 edition david blanes card through window trick is in it and many more it has step by step instructions on how to build the apparatus and how to do the triks

Number 1:
This is NOT a review. So why is it in the Reviews section?

Number 2:
Are you giving us this rambling as information, question, or simply are you trying to SELL the book?

Number 3:
As Dale states, an author's name would probably help, as there are lots of 'art of conjuring' type books out there.

Blaines looking good for his age

Nah - it's just camera trickery!!

Also:

http://www.januarymagazine.com/nonficti ... uring.html

and

http://www.dennymagic.com/cgi-bin/hazel ... tem=005672

$20 or less, and even less on Amazon.co.uk.

Is that a 1910 drawing of David Blane on the cover doing his healed and sealed soda can?

Well it isn't a first ed (1886), so I doubt it is going to be worth megabucks. It has also recently been reprinted, so that will also take away from the price. At a guess I would say it would be worth between £10-20, and only then if it is in good condition.

OK, guys, get ready to flame me but I actually ordered this earlier today from Amazon UK as a direct result of this thread!
(Boy, do I have serious C.U.P.S. or what?!)

The things people will do just to learn how to put a card through a window! I must admit it is a very fine looking book...

You realise you will have to review it now as well?

You realise you will have to review it now as well?

Oh poo - I hadn't thought of that! Well, if I can do a review about a book of magic with underpants, I suppose I can do it for this one - Amazon advised about a week for delivery.

Magic with underpants?!

Wow, you actually did review it! I thought you were kidding!

dat8962 wrote:Is that a 1910 drawing of David Blane on the cover doing his healed and sealed soda can?

Let's not get started on that again!

Well, I'm not sure about a full Review but this book arrived today and it really is rather good. It's a sort of Tarbell mixed with a bit of Reginald Scott and quite a bit of many other old books of the late 1880's. It's wonderfully illustrated with those nice pen and ink drawings (see below) so typical of the time.

There's some useful, if rather dated, advice for all performers - 'the (Magician's) costume of the present day is an ordinary evening dress suit'. The topics covered are almost too numerous to mention but included are basic card and coin sleights, tricks with regular decks, some routines with gaffed cards ( although no indication is given of where the 1880's reader would procure them!), catching cards on a sword, Bird Cage effects, gaffed tables, plates and trays, coin transpositions, coin to orange, various boxes and coin containers such as the Plug Box 'without which no Magician should be seen', Handkerchief effects, cups and balls, rope effects, tricks using eggs, sweets, hats, cannon balls, goblets, mirrors and so on.

Many of them require access to a tinsmith to make the gaffs but modern day equivalents could be substituted in many cases. For the piffling sum of £4.16 plus £2.75 P&P from Amazon, it's a good read and a useful, yet inexpensive addition to any magician's library.