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Hoffmann's last book of original conjuring tricks, published the year before he died. Card tricks, close-up effects and small stage pieces from the man who taught generations of magicians.

What’s inside

1. Some new appliances of general utility — magical mats, fairy flower-pots, adhesive cards
2. Novel applications of the “black art” principle — black art mats, the detective die, dissolving dice
3. Card tricks — arithmetic by magic, those naughty knaves, a card comedy, tell-tale fingers
4. A new long card and tricks therewith
5. The mascot coin box
6. Miscellaneous tricks — the bounding beans, the oracle of Memphis, the wizard’s pocketbook
7. Concerning patter
8. The use of the wand
9. A few wrinkles

Professor Hoffmann, 1918 · Spon & Chamberlain. Complete 244-page PDF. Free to download: check out at $0 and the file arrives by email and on your order page.

This classic is in the public domain. Scans come from library copies, so expect the odd stain or stamp of an old book.