The magic book of magic
| The magic book of magic | |
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| Publication country | Germany |
| editor | Friedrich Andreas Perthes / Stuttgart |
| Publishing year | 1929 |
| Presentation | bound with dust jacket |
| Illustrations | 285 b / w illustrations |
| Languages) | German |
| Page size | 224 |
| theme | General magic |
| ISBN | not available, KVK BV035878069 |
| author | |
| Ottokar Fischer | |
The Magic Book of Wonder is the title of one of the fundamental books for understanding and learning the art of magic .
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The book written by Ottokar Fischer was one of the first books on magic in the German language of the 20th century, which systematically presented magic from history to the performance of magic tricks. The work, written as a textbook, conveys a basic understanding of the art of magic in 12 chapters.
The book had a total of 3 editions.
The chapters
- Miracle of illusion
- Miracles of the magic apparatus
- Miracle of manual dexterity
- Miracles of small magic
- Experiments of this kind with mechanical devices
- Small magic without preparation
- Card art wonder
- The most important tricks of the card artist
- Math card tricks
- Card arts based on manual dexterity
- Miracles of mind reading, clairvoyance and telepathy
- Definition of this ability
- Tricky thought transference
- Mute thought transmission systems
- telepathy
- Miracle of illusions
- Miracles of the apparitions
- Black Art Miracles
- Miracle of bondage
- Miracle of the fakirs
- Wonders of the conundrum
- Separation puzzles
- Mess with secret locks
- Curious puzzles
expenditure
- 1st edition 1929, see info box
- 2nd Edition 1951: Illustrated Magic, translated by JB Mussey and Fulton Oursler, New York, The MacMillan Company
- 3rd edition 1978: Edition Olms Zurich, representations and sources on the history of magic, reprint
- The US edition differs from the German edition in the following ways
- The opening chapter, in which mainly European magicians are portrayed, has been replaced by short American biographies. In addition, the US version has been supplemented by the chapter "The Magic of Today".