Gustave Frikell - The Secret Out Or 1000 Tricks Explained - 1907

The Secret Out
One Thousand Tricks
In Drawing-Room or White Magic
Together with an Endless
Variety of Entertaining Experiments

Scarce work on drawing room card games and tricks, including chapters on general tricks, playing card tricks, tricks of conjuring, sleight-of-hand, and legerdemain, and the secrets of grand magic.

Written by Gustave Frikell, and translated and edited by W.H. Cremer. The book is nicely presented and illustrated with over three hundred in-text illustrations. Published by Chatto and Windus, London, 1907. Publisher’s original red cloth boards, upper cover pictorially stamped in black, spine titled in gilt. Top page edges gilt.

Book Dimensions: 19 x 13 cm and Number of Pages: 307 + 32 pages of publishers’ books

Condition
Firm and well-bound copy. External covers in nice shape, slightly marked, and with light wear to corners and spine ends. Internally; the book in very good condition. Ownership marks to top first blank front free endpaper page. Pages are clean, with light foxing to page edges. The text is fresh and the illustrations in very good condition (Nice Copy) (Please see pictures).