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Stapled Paper. Condizione: Very Good. B/W Drawings and Photographs (illustratore). First Edition. This 31 page `how-to' manual seemingly came with the balls referenced in the title. Lest you despair, the four balls in question are "miniature". (Can be held in one hand.) Read more about : Perfection Twirl, hands, finger, grip, thumb, transfer, change-palm, and Slow Trap Vanish. Errata sheets included for the Chapender's Change trick - also ` some billiard ball stands '. Text assisted by b/w drawings and photographs. Photograph of Mr. Hull at back suggests he also does tricks with cards and silks. Cond ; Paper wrapper is white with black lettering. Front cover art work shows a mandrake , a hand and three balls. Staples slightly rusted and beginning to pull through. UNsoiled. UNmarked. Hinge wear. Very collectible for the vintage. Quote (p.19) : " The description is indefinite and does not state the purpose for which the sleight is designed, whether to vanish, acquit, or produce. Evidently, some little point or principle has been omitted in the explanation. which is doubtless the key to the operation, for the description leaves the ball in the ._._._. ." Size: 16mo. Album Shaped.

Oblong 4to. 31, [1] pp. Printed in black on pink-tinted paper. With 50 photo text illustrations, some diagrams as well. Self-printed softcovers (minor edgewear, some rubbing, very slight closed tear back cover), still VG copy. First edition of this scarce catalogue and instruction book produced by the famed magician who is credited as the inventor of the Svengali Deck of Cards, and claimed to have invented over 500 magic effects. This work popularizes his sleight of hand tricks with miniature billiard balls, which he himself performed dressed entirely in white.

Hard Cover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. First edition, second state, with Rockwell & Churchill device on copyright page (BAL 3363). Front and end matter and a couple plates foxed, front hinge just beginning to weaken. 1875 Hard Cover. xv, 411 pp. Original green cloth, gilt and black titles and decorations, all edges gilt, 19 engravings, 31 illustrations. Includes first appearance of Mark Twain's 'An Encounter with an Interviewer' as well as contributions by: Whitelaw Reid, Wilkie Collins, Mark Twain, John Hay, John Brougham, Noah Brooks, P.V. Nasby, I.H. Bromley, John Elderkin, Thomas W. Knox, W.J. Florence, Chandos Fulton, J. Henry Hagar, Champion Bissell, J.B. Bouton, W.S. Andrews, Gilbert Burling, Chas. I. Pardee, M.D., C. McK. Leoser, Hon. R.B. Roosevelt, William F. Gill, C. Florio, C.E.L., Holmes, Charles Gayler, James Pech, Mus. Doc., H.S. Olcott, Edward Greey, J. Brander Matthews, and Alfred Tennyson.