400 Tricks You Can Do

"400 Tricks You Can Do" by HOWARD THURSTON with its original dust jacket. 1948; Blue Ribbon Books; New York. With illustrations throughout. There is an ink address stamp for "Kanter's Magic Shop" in Philadelphia on the front end paper. From the dust jacket: "Among the 400 simple, startling tricks explained, there are dozens that you can master with just a little time and practice. Not one of them requires elaborate equipment or unusual agility. Yet every one of them will baffle and delight your friends!" The contents are as follows: Ball Tricks; Card Tricks; Checker Tricks; Cigar and Cigarette Tricks; Coin Tricks; Cork Tricks; Dice and Domino Tricks; Egg Tricks; Hand Tricks; Handkerchief Tricks; Liquid Tricks; Match-Box Tricks; Match Tricks; Miscellaneous Tricks; Number Tricks; Optical Tricks; Paper Tricks; Pencil Tricks; Ring Tricks; Spirit Tricks; String Tricks; Sugar Tricks; Table Tricks; Thimble Tricks; Tumbler Tricks; Watch Tricks. Condition: Clean covers and spine; sharp cover corners. Tight binding with no cracks and no loose pages. The pages are lightly age-toned, but clean and appear unread with no issues found. The front end paper has an ink stamp for "Kanter's Magic Shop" in Philadelphia. The book has light, musty odor. Overall the book is in Very Good+ condition. The dust jacket has some small tears along the perimeter; 1" vertical tear at the bottom-left corner of the spine where it meets the back cover...overall the jacket is in Good+ condition.