JAP BOX TRICKS

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Gravatt, Glenn: Jap Box Tricks
©1937 Glenn Gravatt
Hardcover, no dj, 123 pages

rare and collectable siqned 1st edition JAP BOX TRICKS by Glenn Gravatt rare and collectable siqned 1st edition

Signed hard back 1st edition 1937, an exhaustive treatise on the Japanese or Egyptian handkerchief box. This collectable book contains many new uses, tricks and ideas together with complete acts, routines and patter. Red leatherette cover with gold foil title stamped on cover. Book is clean and tight with no noticeable damage, save for a small 3/16th inch indentation on the back cover. Normal age/handling related wear. In fantastic condition for being over 77 years old. The interior is clean with no rips or tears and is slightly toned from age. Former owner's name written very samll on inside cover paste down. One similar to this just sold recently at auction for near $250.00 and it wasn't in as good of condition as this one. 8vo 123 numbered pages.

Gravatt, Glenn: Jap Box Tricks
©1937 Glenn Gravatt
Hardcover, no dj, 123 pages

Comments: On the Jap Box, more currently known as the Japanese Box or Handkerchief Box.

Comments (from book):

3 Preface (Glenn Gravatt)

5 Introductory Remarks
7 Known History
8 Early Catalog Entries
9 Off-Shoots
11 Scope of the Work
12 The New Inexhaustible Box: Ellis Stanyon's Magic Magazine

15 The Dealer Instructs
17 Dealers
20 Magic Effect Instructions
21 Thayer's The Mysterious Handkerchief Box Instructions

25 A Private Lesson Form an Old Master
27 Handling the Hank Box (David Devant)
29 - How To Do It
33 - Variation

35 New Uses for an Old Box
37 Introduction
37 Modifying the Box
39 Showing the Box Empty
39 Exchanges
39 Forces
40 Other Loads
40 The Lock Flap Jab Box
42 Steel Ball Through Glass: applying the principal to the box
43 Rod Through Glass (Massey and DeMuth)
44 Great Egg Production
45 Television: blindfolded magician names cards as picked up from the deck
46 Glass of Water and Silk Production
48 Rising Cards
49 U.F. Grant's Radio Cabinet Act

53 Further New Uses
55 Vanishes: three methods
56 Color Changes
57 The Spirit Box
58 Sucker Gags
59 Penetration
60 Liquid Effects
60 Noah's Ark, Jr.
61 Rybolt Card Reading
64 Twentieth Century Handkerchief
65 Cut Ribbon Restored
66 Card on Ribbon
67 Great Watch Production

69 The Holmes' Production
71 The Holmes' Production (Mr. Donald Holmes): detailed performance
72 The Effect: and patter
75 Properties Employed: props needed
76 The Working
80 Conclusion

81 The Hull Routine
83 The Hull Routine (Burling Hull)
83 Introduction
84 Effect
85 Silks Required, Preparation and Arrangement
87 Handkerchief Casket Presentation

93 Wright's Radio Box
95 Wright's Radio Box (T. Page Wright): radio box that receives objects
99 Working

101 The Great Hanky Panky Act
103 Weber's Hanky Panky Act (Herman L. Weber)
103 Effect
104 Presentation

113 Concluding Remarks
115 Concluding Remarks
116 Just Scraping the Surface
117 So Called Improvements


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Published by the author ~ 1937 First Edition
123pp ~ Long Out of Print
5.75" x 8.50" x 0.625" Medium 8vo

Gravatt, a conscientious writer, corrected a few misspelled printed words in pencil prior to the sale of each book Ex: Clew corrected to Clue

A very nice example Gravatt's scarce exhaustive treatise on the Japanese or Egyptian handkerchief box, containing many new uses, tricks and ideas together with complete acts and routines

A seminal work on one of the most versatile conjuring props in magic, the Japanese Handkerchief Box

This clever book is divided into ten chapters covering the following topics:
Introductory Remarks ~ The Dealer Instructs ~ A Private Lesson From An Old Master (David Devant) ~ New Uses For An Old Box ~ Further New Uses ~ The Holmes' Production (Donald Holmes) ~ The Hull Routine ~ Wright's Radio Box ~ The Great Hanky Panky Act ~ Concluding Remarks

A real trophy acquisition for any magic book collector or performing magician!