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SELBIT, P.T. (Percy Tibbles, 1881 – 1938). The Magician’s Handbook. London: Marshall & Brookes, Dawbarn & Ward, [1901]. FIRST EDITION. Publisher’s green cloth decorated and stamped in blue. Frontispiece, illustrated with line drawings and plates. 8vo. Cloth soiled, binding loose; good. INSCRIBED AND SIGNED by Selbit to fellow magician Arthur Buckle above the frontispiece. SCARCE; only the second book signed by Selbit we have offered for sale.
Included is a lengthy chapter of juggling tricks and a profile of W.C. Fields, who at the time this work was published was still a music hall and vaudeville tramp juggler.