Hiding the Elephant: How Magicians Invented the Impossible Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Hiding the Elephant: How Magicians Invented the Impossible Book

This is the story of the Golden Age of magic and of the world's most legendary magicians: the eccentric personalities who patented the first ghost and competed fiendishly in the race to make things materialize levitate and disappear. We meet Harry Kellar the ruthless thief of secrets who was the model for the Wizard of Oz and PT Selbit the first man to saw a woman in half on stage. We meet John Nevil Maskelyne whose Egyptian Theatre was a London institution for sixty years. "Hiding the Elephant" is the masterwork of a man who has dedicated his life to magic who knows the tricks inside out and still believes.Read More

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    Presents a story of the Golden Age of magic and of the world's legendary magicians: the personalities who patented the first ghost and competed fiendishly in the race to make things materialize levitate and disappear. This book is the masterwork of a man who has dedicated his life to magic who knows the tricks inside out and still believes.

  • 0099476649
  • 9780099476641
  • Jim Steinmeyer
  • 6 October 2005
  • Arrow Books Ltd
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 384
  • New edition
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