{"product_id":"elliots-last-legacy-houdini-stevens-estate-copy","title":"Elliot's Last Legacy - Houdini - Signed by Houdini - Stevens Estate","description":"\u003cp\u003e1923 HC 1stEd Foxing on front, back cover and spine. Binding intact, chaffing at the bottom and top covers. Fair to Good Condition. 323 Pages. Signed by Houdini - Best Wishes What follows is a six page listing of advertisements including other books written by Houdini\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEdited by Houdini, compiled by Clinton Burgess. \"Secrets of the King of All Kard Kings. Many tricks that have mystified the best magicians of the world, laid bare for the first time, together with many novel inventions taken from Note Books left by Dr. James William Elliott.\" Later republished as \"Card Tricks and Conjuring\". Please note that the table of contents I saw for the Coles edition stopped at page 299 and did not list the last chapter Hints and Suggestions. This version \"DOES\" include Hints and Suggestions. Total Pages including post published additional added Editorial Addendum is\u003cstrong\u003e 323 Pages.  The Editorial Addendum was added later on all versions simply look at the size of the paper.  \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eContents (Thanks to Bryan T; Note: the original contents is set out more in an Index form; the below has been re-ordered in page sequential order)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e13 Introduction (Houdini)\u003cbr\u003e17 Foreword\u003cbr\u003e19 Personaly (Clinton Burgess)\u003cbr\u003e23 Eulogium (Ezra Lee Buckey)\u003cbr\u003e26 A Disciple of Versatility (Houdini)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e29 Magical Effects\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e29 Ball\u003cbr\u003e29 Magical Baseball\u003cbr\u003e31 The Floating Ball\u003cbr\u003e31 Fortune-Telling Ball: Right, Left, Centre\u003cbr\u003e35 Vanished Beyond Recovery\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e36 Bottle\u003cbr\u003e36 A Chameleon Bottle\u003cbr\u003e38 The Milk Baby\u003cbr\u003e40 Puzzling the Prohibitionist\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e43 Box\u003cbr\u003e43 Japanese Magic Occidentalized\u003cbr\u003e50 Self-Fillng Box\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e52 Candy\u003cbr\u003e52 Just Enough Yet an Abundance\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e53 Card\u003cbr\u003e53 Elliott's Palm Advantage\u003cbr\u003e54 Animated Card\u003cbr\u003e54 Improved Cricket Bat\u003cbr\u003e56 Combination for Card Location\u003cbr\u003e58 Mechanical Control\u003cbr\u003e59 Elliott's Nailed Deck\u003cbr\u003e63 Fan Off From Vest\u003cbr\u003e64 A Feat With the Feat\u003cbr\u003e66 Floating Card Houlette\u003cbr\u003e69 Giant Card Houlette\u003cbr\u003e76 Inseparable\u003cbr\u003e76 Jumping Card\u003cbr\u003e78 Elliott's Cards, Plates and Goblets\u003cbr\u003e80 Leading Extra Card Packet on Deck\u003cbr\u003e81 Luck Science or Hokum?\u003cbr\u003e83 Elliott's 52-card Poker Combination\u003cbr\u003e83 Elliott's (New) Numerical Card Producers\u003cbr\u003e84 The Elliott Method of Card Marking\u003cbr\u003e86 Nine Card Trick\u003cbr\u003e92 Novel Card Change\u003cbr\u003e95 Elliott's Double, Triple, Quadruple, Card Productions From Body\u003cbr\u003e101 Effective, Simplex, Mechanical Card Production\u003cbr\u003e104 The Giant Rising\u003cbr\u003e106 The Scissors\u003cbr\u003e111 Sleight for Card in Lemon, Etc.\u003cbr\u003e112 New Card Target\u003cbr\u003e114 Think Stop\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e117 Cards:\u003cbr\u003e117 A Natural Sure-Fire Force\u003cbr\u003e122 Giant Fan of Cards\u003cbr\u003e123 Card Location, Card\u003cbr\u003e125 The Elliott, Ducrot Change-Over Palm\u003cbr\u003e128 The Elliott Pass\u003cbr\u003e129 Elliott's Riffle Pass\u003cbr\u003e131 Houdini's Pass\u003cbr\u003e133 Two Effective Moves by Houdini\u003cbr\u003e134 Acrobatic Rising Card\u003cbr\u003e135 Production of Selected Card, A New Way\u003cbr\u003e136 The \"OK\" Card Trick\u003cbr\u003e138 Invisible Reverse\u003cbr\u003e141 Riffling\u003cbr\u003e142 Scaling\u003cbr\u003e145 Spelling Card\u003cbr\u003e147 Tearing Deck in Two\u003cbr\u003e149 An Original Method of Palming\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e151 Mechanical Chairs\u003cbr\u003e151 Automatic Hat-loading\u003cbr\u003e152 Novel Chair for Huge Loads\u003cbr\u003e153 Explosion Chair\u003cbr\u003e154 Correct Dimensions of Chair-cover\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e155 Chemicals\u003cbr\u003e155 Wine and Water Variation\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e157 Cigar\u003cbr\u003e157 Single-handed Production From Nose\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e157 Cloth \u0026amp; Die\u003cbr\u003e157 An Ingenious Die \"Form\"\u003cbr\u003e158 Wire Form for Die\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e159 Conveyance\u003cbr\u003e159 The Art of Conveying\u003cbr\u003e167 Secret Method of Conveyance, for Borrowed Articles\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e174 Coins\u003cbr\u003e174 Welsh Miller's Dropper\u003cbr\u003e175 Elliott Money Melting\u003cbr\u003e191 Welsh Miller's Original Wand\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e193 Electric\u003cbr\u003e193 Hand-shake, A Shocking\u003cbr\u003e193 Tray, The Touch-me-not\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e177 Flower\u003cbr\u003e177 Kellar's \"Growth of Flowers\"\u003cbr\u003e180 Spectacular Effect for Same\u003cbr\u003e181 Additional Spectacular Effect\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e184 Glass\u003cbr\u003e184 Miller's Table for Penetration Effects\u003cbr\u003e185 Unique Vanishing\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e187 Hand\u003cbr\u003e187 The Human Hand\u003cbr\u003e187 Hand Versus Eye\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e189 Handkerchief\u003cbr\u003e189 Obedient Handkerchiefs\u003cbr\u003e190 Silk Producing Stand\u003cbr\u003e191 Welsh Miller's Original Coin Wand\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e195 Illusions\u003cbr\u003e195 \"Anchor\" or \"Cross,\" Improved\u003cbr\u003e205 Astronomagic\u003cbr\u003e206 The Book of History\u003cbr\u003e208 Bottled Authors\u003cbr\u003e210 The Broom Witch\u003cbr\u003e213 Change of Living Subjects\u003cbr\u003e213 Old Method of Human Concealment\u003cbr\u003e214 \"C Y S I,\" (or) \"Can You Solve It?\"\u003cbr\u003e219 The Elixir of Life\u003cbr\u003e221 A Novel Metamorphosis\u003cbr\u003e222 Novel Spectacular Patriotic\u003cbr\u003e224 The Pierced Prisoner\u003cbr\u003e227 Queen Queer, H.R.H.\u003cbr\u003e229 Refrigeration Extraordinary\u003cbr\u003e232 The Tenibac Mystery\u003cbr\u003e235 Thread of Life\u003cbr\u003e238 Thimble Lady\u003cbr\u003e239 Triple Trunk\u003cbr\u003e242 Walking on Water\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e244 Live Stock\u003cbr\u003e244 Incubation, Incredible\u003cbr\u003e248 Rabbits, Magical, Why White\u003cbr\u003e249 Rabbits Instead of Roses\u003cbr\u003e251 Stunts With the \"Anermiles\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e252 Loads\u003cbr\u003e252 Chair, Novel\u003cbr\u003e253 Front, Table\u003cbr\u003e255 Huge, Non-body\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e257 Milk\u003cbr\u003e257 Invisible Cow\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e258 Music\u003cbr\u003e258 A List of 120 Musical Compositions, Suitable for Magical and Mystery Performances, Embracing 15 Marches, 12 Waltzes, 63 Miscellaneous and Oriental Oddities, 14 Additional Compositions and 16 National and Patriotic Airs\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e262 Oriental\u003cbr\u003e262 Hindoo Sticks, Self-working\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e263 Regurgitation\u003cbr\u003e263 Practical Value of in Magic\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e264 Rings\u003cbr\u003e264 Genuine Ten Ichi Thumb Tie\u003cbr\u003e265 Improved Examined Rings on Cord\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e267 Servantes\u003cbr\u003e267 Reversible, Chair\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e268 Slate\u003cbr\u003e268 The Spencerian\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e272 Table\u003cbr\u003e272 Trapless, Yet All Traps\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e274 Telepathic\u003cbr\u003e274 (Genuine)\u003cbr\u003e284 \"Experimental Telepathy With Playing Cards\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e292 Wands\u003cbr\u003e292 Welsh Miller's Rising Wand\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e294 Water\u003cbr\u003e294 Traveling Water\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e297 Well Device\u003cbr\u003e297 Noiseless in Operation\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e300 Hints and Suggestions\u003cbr\u003e300 Cards, Comical Effect for Rising\u003cbr\u003e300 DeKolta's Cards, A More Effective Way\u003cbr\u003e301 Cage and Bird Vanishing\u003cbr\u003e301 Advantage for Palming Cards\u003cbr\u003e302 Hints to \"Black Artists\"\u003cbr\u003e302 Cabinet Curtains\u003cbr\u003e302 Celluloid for Magical Purposes\u003cbr\u003e302 Genuine Chinese Names\u003cbr\u003e302 Cleaning Fabric, Glass, Etc\u003cbr\u003e307 Simplex Code Communication, Simplex\u003cbr\u003e306 Color Value\u003cbr\u003e307 To Mix Flesh Color\u003cbr\u003e307 Mirrors for Illusions\u003cbr\u003e307 Identification of Duplicate Articles\u003cbr\u003e309 Scale of and Detail of Paraphernalia\u003cbr\u003e310 Proficiency, Professional Efficiency \u0026amp; Precaution\u003cbr\u003e310 Egg-bag, Novel Presentation\u003cbr\u003e310 Simplex Servante for Vest\u003cbr\u003e311 Care of Live-Stock\u003cbr\u003e311 Passe-passe Bottle Effect\u003cbr\u003e311 Care of Live Stock\u003cbr\u003e316 Regarding Counterweight\u003cbr\u003e316 Regarding Unusually Tall Illusion\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e317-322 Card Stacking for Exhibition Games\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEditorial Addendum - added post printing would constitute page 323.  Approx. 6 pages of advertisements follow including a list of books written by Houdini. The Sphinx, Goldstones More Exclusive Magic Secrets, SAM adverts, Magicians Club London, and finally two more books written by Houdini.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Steven's Magic Emporium","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47724882034740,"sku":null,"price":1750.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0632\/1461\/6628\/files\/Elliotts_Last_Legacy_Signed1.jpg?v=1776982014","url":"https:\/\/stevensmagic.com\/products\/elliots-last-legacy-houdini-stevens-estate-copy","provider":"Stevens Magic Emporium","version":"1.0","type":"link"}