Shrewesbury Publishing: Magic For Home and Stage ©1929 Shrewesbury Publishing Co., Softcover, stapled, 150 pages Encyclopedia of Amateur and Professional Magic for Home and Stage ©1941 Max Stein Publishers, Chicago, IL

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Comments: "A Practical Treatise on Coin Tricks, Card Tricks, Sleight-of-Hand, Illusions, Black Art, Mind Reading, Spirit Mediumship, Ventriloquism, etc., etc. Secrets and Methods of performing many marvalous mysteries, such as have astonished the public of all nations". It appears from the photos I've seem that the Max Stein "Amateur and Professional Magic for Home and Stage" is a reprint of the Shrewesbury Publishing "Magic for Home and Stage". Contents includes an 8 ring linking ring routine.

Contents (Chapters from Book ToC):

5 First Words on Magic
14 Coin Tricks
43 Card Tricks
68 Miscellaneous Tricks
117 Black Art
129 How to Be A Spirit Medium
135 Mind Reading
139 Ventriloquism