Abbott's Encyclopedia of Rope Tricks

Volume One

Abbott's Magic Novelty Co. (1941)

Hardcover

400 pages | USA | eng

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Genre

Conjuring

Subject

Magic tricks

Plot

James, Stewart: Abbott's Encyclopedia of Rope Tricks Vol. 1
©1941 1st Edition; Abbott's Magic
Hardcover, 400 pages

Abebooks price 40.00

Credits

Illustrator	Sid Lorraine

Personal

Owner	Bryan-Keith Taylor
Location	Magic Library (Home)
Index	4761
Added Date	Jul 01, 2017 03:06:54
Modified Date	Apr 06, 2026 14:22:48

Value

Book Condition	Near Mint

Notes

James, Stewart,
(1908-1996)
Magic's most creative inventor, who invented over 1000 magic tricks and published many of them in books and magazines. The book Stewart James in Print: The First 50 Years, edited by P. Howard Lyons and Allan Slaight, contained 1025 pages filled with 412 exceedingly clever tricks, and all by Stewart James. Volumes 1 and 2 of The James File by Allan Slaight, contains nearly 1700 pages of Stewart James's magic.
He also compiled and edited the Abbott Encyclopedia of Rope Tricks, and much of the work that went into Stewart James' Encyclopedia of Rope Tricks.

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