Parlor Tricks with Cards

Parlor Tricks with Cards, Containing Explanations of All the Tricks and Deceptions with Playing Cards Ever Invented, Embracing Tricks with Cards Performed by Skillful Manipulation and Sleight of Hand; by the Aid of Memory, Mental Calculation, and the Peculiar Arrangement of the Cards; by the Aid of Confederacy and Sheer Audacity, and Tricks Performed by the Aid of Ingenious Apparatus and Prepared Cards, the Whole Illustrated, and Made Plain and Easy. Pictorial boards, illustrated with 70 engravings, 130 pages with adverts at rear. Both hinges detached, tapes to covers, chips to spine, corners rubbed. In the navy custom clamshell box. Poor condition.