Austin, Guy K.: Practical Magic with Popular Patter
©1900s (circa) Guy K. Austin, Will Goldston Ltd, U.K.
Softcover, saddle-stitched, 5.5x8.5", 32 pages plus ads

Hardcover, 92 pages
Austin:
              Practical Magic with Popular Patter
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Austin: Practical Magic With Popular Patter
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Comments: Mostly for parlor or stage. The second edition hardcover has a lot more pages, so I don't know if it is just in a different typeset or of it adds more contents.

Contents (from softcover 1st edition book, descriptions added Apr 2018):

3 Foreword
4 The Latest Torn and Restored Card Trick: torn card rises mostly restored, two missing pieces match
7 General Post or All Change: a double transposition effect with cards
11 Invisible Transit: hat with jar of water vanishes from under handkerchief to be found in a hat box
15 Flying Colours: candle and tumbler of silks transposition
19 Word for Word: selected letter cards spell the word selected in a book
24 A Rhyme With a Reason: a rhyming trick with an egg, a silk, and a lemon
27 The Fall of Baghdad: patriotic effect with handkerchief flags
29 A Reel Mystery: another silks and drumhead tube mystery


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