Sleight of Hand: A Practical Manual of Legerdemain for Amateurs & Others

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CONTENTS.

PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION.

Introduction.

Part I. Drawing-room Magic.

CHAPTER I. PALMING.

CHAPTER II. TRICKS WITH COINS.

CHAPTER III. TRICKS WITH COMMON OBJECTS.

CHAPTER IV. TRICKS WITH CUPS AND BALLS.

CHAPTER V. TRICKS WITH HANDKERCHIEFS.

CHAPTER VI. CHINESE TRICKS.

CHAPTER VII. TRICKS AT TABLE.

CHAPTER VIII. TRICKS WITH CARDS.

Part II. Grand, or Stage Magic.

CHAPTER IX. GENERAL REMARKS.

CHAPTER X. THE TABLE AND DRESS.

CHAPTER XI. SLEIGHTS AND PROPERTIES FOR GENERAL USE.

CHAPTER XII. TRICKS WITH CARDS.

CHAPTER XIII. TRICKS WITH HANDKERCHIEFS AND GLOVES.

CHAPTER XIV. TRICKS WITH COINS.

CHAPTER XV. MISCELLANEOUS.

CHAPTER XVI. THE CORNUCOPIAN HAT.

CHAPTER XVII. TRICKS WITH WATCHES AND LIVE STOCK.

CHAPTER XVIII. SHAM MESMERISM, CLAIRVOYANCE, ETC.

CHAPTER XIX. FINAL INSTRUCTIONS.

INDEX

A Practical Manual of Legerdemain
for Amateurs & Others

EDWIN SACHS

Dover Publications, Inc.
New York


Published in Canada by General Publishing Company, Ltd.,
30 Lesmill Road, Don Mills, Toronto, Ontario.

This Dover edition, first published in 1980, is an unabridged
republication of the second, greatly enlarged, edition of the
work as published by L. Upcott Gill, London, 1885.

International Standard Book Number: 0-486-23911-X
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 79-54184


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