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Title

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 author of Book of riddles and five hundred home amusements ...

Author

Frikell, Wiljalba, 1818-1903.

Publication

New York : Dick & Fitzgerald, [1863?]

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Additional Authors

• McManus-Young Collection (Library of Congress) DLC
• Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) DLC

Description

130 p. : 71 ill.; 18 cm.

Subject

• Card tricks

Note

• Text is p. 1-130 of Frikell's The secret out.
• Source: Gift of John J. and Hanna M. McManus and Morris N. and Chesley V. Young, Oct. 12, 1955.
• Label of Martinka & Co., New York, over original imprint.

Call Number

MZCD [RBS] 97-994 (Frikell, W. Parlor tricks with cards)

LCCN

66093770 //r93

OCLC

29308296

Author

Frikell, Wiljalba, 1818-1903.

Title

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 author of Book of riddles and five hundred home amusements ...

Imprint

New York : Dick & Fitzgerald, [1863?]

Local Note

Saram R. Ellison Collection.

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Added Author

Ellison, Saram Richard, b. 1852. Donor

McManus-Young Collection (Library of Congress) DLC

Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) DLC

Research Call Number

MZCD [RBS] 97-994 (Frikell, W. Parlor tricks with cards)