A treatise on the Principles, Old and New, of Sleight-of-Hand with Cards, Coins, Billiard Balls and Thimbles.  Publisher Fleming Book Company, Berkeley Heights, New Jersey.  By Camille Gaultier.

1945, cloth bound with pictorial gilt stamping, 527 pages with index and illustrated.  Translated from the French by Jean Hugard and edited by Paul Fleming as Volume One of the Magic Classic Series.  A monumental work dealing with *Billiard Balls *Thimbles *Coins *Cards *Card Flourishes and a section on the Literature of Magic and General Observations on the technique and presentation of magic.

If you are serious about magic this is one definitely to have.  Condition backstrip fade, otherwise fine.