Softcover
128 pages

This reproduction of W. H. J. Shaw's 1902 booklet, New Ideas in Magic, Illusions, Spiritualistic Effects, Etc., includes detailed instructions on how to create such illusions as the three-legged woman, the four-legged woman, the half-lady, decapitation on the guillotine, and a talking severed head. Plus handkerchief magic, card tricks, mentalist feats, and chapeaugraphy.

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5" x 7" x .3"