1855 - FASHIONABLE SCIENCE OF PARLOR MAGIC - PROF. JOHN H. ANDERSON - HOUDINI

  THE FASHIONABLE SCIENCE OF PARLOR MAGIC: BEING A SERIES OF THE NEWEST TRICKS OF DECEPTION, ARRANGED FOR AMATEURS AND LOVERS OF THE ART TO WHICH IS ADDED AN EXPOSURE OF THE PRACTICE MADE USE OF BY PROFESSIONAL CARD PLAYERS, BLACKLEGS AND GAMBLERS — By Professor John Henry Anderson, "The Great Wizard of the North" — 1855 — Magician, Illusions, Conjuring, Tricks, Sleight of Hand, Inventor of "Pulling a Rabbit out of a Top Hat Trick", Occult, "Spiritual and Medium Fraud" Publisher: Dick & Fitzgerald, New York (1855; No Date Provided)Very scarce 1855 copy of "The Fashionable Science of Parlor Magic" by Professor John Henry Anderson, in well preserved condition. The boards and binding are solid and tight save for light rubbing to the boards and overall light shelfwear. The pages are crisp and clean save for small pinhole in the front endpaper, and some erased pencil marks on the back endpaper. All other pages and illustrations are crisp and clean save for a random spo