Verrall Wass: 32 New Drawing Room Deceptions
Wass, Verrall: 32 New Drawing Room Deceptions
©1949 Verrall Wass, Unwin Brothers Ltd, London
Softcover, saddle-stitched, 5x7", 132 pages
Verrall Wass: 32 Drawing Room Deceptions
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Contents (from book ToC):

11 Chapter I All Kinds Of Cards
Cards, Coins, and Coincidence
Between Two Panes
Double Fault
Mend Those Tears
The Spectral Swordsman
David and Goliath
Red Letter Day
Lady or Gentleman?

43 Chapter II Silken Swindles
A Pocket Problem
A Handkerchief Chameleon
A Silken Sequence
My Prisoner
The Captive Rainbow
Knots There?
Through the Soup Plate
The Homing Hankies

71 Chapter III Matches And More
The Meandering Matches
Have You a Match?
The Colours Pass

85 Chapter IV Mostly Destructive
Piercing a Pound
Tearing a Treasury Note
Flash Go!
Give Him Rope

99 Chapter V To Amuse the Young
Dressing the Dolly
Off with their Heads

111 Chapter VI Take Your Choice
A Little Muddled
After the Afghan Bands
A Good Break
Marked Money
Key Colour
Nelson's Telescope
Inventions


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