A Modern Mystery Merchant: The Trials, Tricks and Travels of Carl Hertz, the Famous American Illusionist. Navy cloth with gilt stamping on spine. Pictorial frontispiece, illustrated with plates, 319 pages. Includes the famous story of Hertz and his trademark trick, The Vanishing Birdcage, as presented before British parliament. Hinges loose, frontispiece half detached, soiling to covers, corners bumped, toning to spine, fair to good condition.
