Pratt, Bert: Browsing Around in Magic ©1972 Magic, Inc., Chicago, IL Softcover, saddle-stitched, 5.5x8.5", 52 pages

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Comments: A compilation of the Browsing Around articles originally appearing in The Midget Magician, as published by Wilf Huggins. Each article is a review or overview of a magic book.

Contents (from book):

3 Bert Pratt: B&W photo and short biography
4 Introduction (Frances Marshall): about The Midget Magician series
6 Photos: of Wilf Huggins and Bert Pratt
7 Browsing Around - One: review of Aunt Kate's Conjuring & Parlour Magic
8 Browsing Around - Two: Percy Naldrett's Magic of the Moment
8 Browsing Around - Three: W. Hooper's Rational Recreations in 4 volumes
9 Strange But True: card collecting anecdote
9 Browsing Around - Four: Hoffmann's Card Tricks Made Easy
10 Browsing Around - Five: more of Hoffmann's book
10 Browsing Around - Six: The Little Book O' Tricks published by Ed. Smith & Co.
11 Browsing Around - Seven: A Manifest Detection of Diceplay from the 1500's
12 Where Did I Read This? a magic quote
12 Browsing Around - Eight: Magic & Mystery Unveiled
13 Browsing Around - Nine: Ingleby's Whole Art of Legerdemain
14 Browsing Around - Ten: Table Turning and Table Talking
15 Browsing Around - Eleven: G. Twist's American Practical Receipt Book
15 Browsing Around - Twelve: Dick Merryman's Round About Our Coal Fire
 Browsing Around - Thirteen: The Life and Adventures of Valentine Vox, Ventriloquist, by Henry Cockton
17 Browsing Around - Fourteen: J.A. Paris Philosophy in Sport, Made Science in Earnest
18 Browsing Around - Fifteen: Stodare's The Art of Magic
19 Browsing Around - Sixteen: Tricks for Amateurs of Both Sexes
20 Browsing Around - Seventeen: The Private Companion by Merlin Secundus, and More Than Sixty Tricks for The Amateur Conjurer.
21 Browsing Around - Eightteen: Kalanag Review souvenir program
22 Browsing Around - Nineteen: My Magic A.B.C.
23 Browsing Around - Twenty: Magician's Own Book by Cremer.
24 M Charlier: on the following four pages is a reproduction of the program of M. Charlier
29 Browsing Around - Twenty One: C. Lang Neil's Modern Conjurer
30 Browsing Around - Twenty Two: Goggerel of the Slums, and Other Equally Bad Verse, by A. Tramp
31 Twenty Three: Christmas Ghosts by Harry Price
32 Browsing Around - Twenty-four: C.J.S. Thompson's Quacks of Old London
33 Browsing Around - Twenty-Five: Frank Bellew's Art of Amusing
35 Browsing Around - Twenty-Six: Scot's Discoverie of Witchcraft
36 Browsing Around - Twenty-Seven: F. Anstey Voces Populi 2nd Series
37 Browsing Around - Twenty-Eight: Baldwin's Secrets of Mahatma Land
38 Browsing Around - Twenty-Nine: Rejub the Juggler by G.A. Henty
38 Browsing Around - Thirty: R.H. Shauffler's Hallowe'en
40 Photo: Der Taschenspieler
41 Browsing Around - Thirty-One: Charles Cotton's The Compleat Gamester
41 Browsing Around - Thirty-Two: The King of the Conjurors by J.S. Borlase
42 Browsing Around - Thirty-Three: A Book of Marvels by A.E. Reeve
43 Browsing Around - Thirty-Four: Dick & Fitzgerald How to Amuse and Evening Party and Book of Riddles and 500 Home Amusements
44 Browsing Around - Thirty-Five: George Daniel Merrie England in the Olden Time
45 Browsing Around - Thirty-Six: Albert Smith novels
47 Browsing Around - Thirty-Seven: Strong Man Egyptologist by Colin Clair
48 Browsing Around - Thirty-Eight: The Corner Cupboard by Houlston and Wright
49 On Collecting Books on Legerdemain
52 References: other references of interest to the book collector