hillcountrymagic
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Condition: Fair - book is 167 years old.
First published in 1859, W. H. Cremer’s The Secret Out; or 1000 Tricks with Cards is a landmark 19th-century manual designed to demystify the art of conjuring and parlour magic for general audiences. The book systematically details over a thousand feats across sleight-of-hand card manipulation, coin tricks, mind-reading, optical illusions, and basic scientific experiments in magnetism and electricity. Accompanied by instructional woodcut illustrations and suggested performance patter, Cremer carefully explains the mechanical principles and misdirection behind "white magic" and drawing-room amusements. Serving as both an accessible handbook for Victorian amateur illusionists and a historic document of early stagecraft, the work remains a foundational text in the literature of magic.
