Second edition. Red cloth with gilt stamping on the front cover and spine, pictorial dust jacket. Pictorial frontispiece, illustrated, 318 pages. Toning and small chips to jacket, else in good condition. Long considered one of the most important books in the literature of magic published in the twentieth century, with the first section by Maskelyne treating the performance and theory of magic, and the second, by Devant, describing many of his stage routines and illusions in great detail.
