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Sleight of Hand: Practical Manual of Legerdemain for Amateurs and Others (Dover Magic Books)
by Sachs, Edwin
- Used
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- VG++/VG/ND
- ISBN 10
- 048623911X
- ISBN 13
- 9780486239118
- Seller
-
Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus Facsimile Reprint.* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1980 (1885)* Publisher: Dover.* Binding and cover condition: Colour-illustrated soft card covers. No bumps or rubs. Slight shelf wear to edges & corners. No creases to spine or hinge, very slight dish. Lower front corner creased. Seems lightly used. VG * Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No annotations, inscriptions or marks to text, no visible faults. No tanning. Page edges a little dusty. VG++* Illustrations: 57 b/w illustrations within text throughout.* Pages: 399 pp. text. xxvi pp. index & advertisements at rear.* Product Description:- Covers every significant aspect -- from palming to clairvoyance, vanishing and producing an object, using essential apparatus, etc. Explains hundreds of astonishing tricks -- with coins, cups and balls, handkerchiefs, cards & more. A book with an excellent reputation among professional magicians for teaching techniques. This is a facsimile unabridged republication of the second, greatly enlarged, edition of the work as published by L.Upcott Gill, London 1885.* This is a NEAR FINE copy of the 1st./1st. thus with light shelf wear reducing it to VG*
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- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5065
- Title
- Sleight of Hand: Practical Manual of Legerdemain for Amateurs and Others (Dover Magic Books)
- Author
- Sachs, Edwin
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - VG++/VG/ND
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Thus 1st. Imp.
- ISBN 10
- 048623911X
- ISBN 13
- 9780486239118
- Publisher
- Dover Publications Inc.
- Place of Publication
- New York USA 408
- Date Published
- 1980-12-15
- Size
- 13.6 x 2 x 21.5 cm
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- VG
- Very Good condition can describe a used book that does show some small signs of wear - but no tears - on either binding or...
- Reprint
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- Shelf Wear
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- Facsimile
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- Spine
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- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Crisp
- A term often used to indicate a book's new-like condition. Indicates that the hinges are not loosened. A book described as crisp...
- Bumps
- Indicates that the affected part of the book has been impacted in such a way so as to cause a flattening, indention, or light...
- Hinge
- The portion of the book closest to the spine that allows the book to be opened and closed.
- Tight
- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
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