Publisher David McKay Company, Philadelphia.  First published in 1936, this edition with no date but flyleaf opposite foreword states Made In Great Britian.  Printed by Western Printing Services, LTD, Bristol.  Pictorial cloth bound, 288 pages with Index, photos and illustrations (16 illustrations in half-tone and 60 line drawings).

Contents:

• Starting In Magic
• Where Magic Is Bought
• Specializing In Magic
• Conjuring With Coins
• Baffling Card Tricks
• Clever Tricks With Handkerchiefs
• Tricks Without Elaborate Apparatus
• Magic With Pieces Of Paper
• Conjuring With Common Objects
• Rope Tricks, Stage Management
• Thought Reading Made Easy
• Disappearing Tricks
• Simple Apparatus Illusions
• Special Apparatus and Modern Ideas
• When Your Magic Goes Wrong
• What Ancient Magic Teaches Us
• Simple Chemical Tricks
• Entertaining In Dress Clothes
• Two Great American Magicians
• A Chinese And Wizard Show
• Where Magicians Meet
• A Little Jugglery, Shadowgraph-Work and Ventriloquism
• The Art Of Make-Up, How To Get Bookings

Illustrations in Half-Tone:

• The Author, St George's Hall Langham Place
• The Man Without A Middle
• Houdini The Handcuff King
• Houdini Being Managed
• Carl Hertz
• Ellis Stanyon
• The Indian Rope Trick
• Chung Ling Soo
• Sawing A Woman In Half
• A Group of Indian Fakirs
• Snake-Charming In South Africa
• Herrmann The Great
• Harry Kellar
• Howard Thurston
• Make-Up For A Chinese Show

 Condition previous owner's bookplate, backstrip has 1/4" break at top and below star in gold are the letter SC with a circle around it, otherwise very fine and one you should certainly have.