Unsigned book: The Magician's Own Book, or the Whole Art of Conjuring. First edition. NY: Dick & Fitzgerald, 1857. Hardcover bound in brown cloth with gilt-stamped title and decoration, 5.25 x 7.75, 362 pages. Illustrated with over 500 woodcuts, this early "complete hand-book of parlor magic" offers comprehensive explanations of myriad tricks, illusions, and magical experiments. Book condition: VG/None, with sunning to spine and boards and minor scattered staining to textblock.
