Tricks with cards
Subtitle: containing explanations of the general principles of sleight-of-hand applicable to card-tricks : of card-tricks, with ordinary cards, and not requiring sleight-of-hand : of tricks involving sleight-of-hand, or the use of specially-prepared cards : and of card-tricks requiring special apparatus
By: by Professor Hoffmann
Contributors: Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: George Routledge and Sons
Published: 1890
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 145
Other titles: Modern magic
Work titles: Modern magic
Notes: A reprint of p. 11-145 of Hoffmann's Modern magic, 1876.

Imprint date from BLC.

LC copy has inscriptions of Ehrich Weiss and Houdini, prestidigitatauer [sic], Sept. 28, 1893, with the note, dated May 6, 1916: This book is one of the "early books" in my library.  In those days it was my wont to go to public libraries, but this book I bot [sic] and here it is. It was a lot of money for me in those days, but life's pathway is not always best at the early mileage, though the early days were the happiest of my life.  H.H.

BLC, CL, p. 149