Sleight of Hand

A Practical Manual of Legerdemain for Amateurs and Others/ ca. 14 x 21 cm, 408 S., Dover Publications, Inc., New York, broschiert Let's say you are at a dinner party and are invited to do a trick. You have no apparatus on you, nothing prepared. In an absent manner, you place a glass of sherry to your lips, as though bracing yourself for the fray. The glass is half emtied, when a sudden movement is made as though you threw it up to the ceiling; but nothing is seen to ascend, though the glass, with the wine in it, has disappeared. After a short pause, to allow the general astonishment to take full effect, the missing article is discovered inside the coat of your immediate neighbor, with the wine in it unsplit. Find out in this legendary classic of legerdemain, Sleight of Hand, widely regarded by professional magicians as one of the finest magic books ever written, how this trick and many others work. Clearly and minutely, the steps are given for hundreds of astonishing tricks!