James William Elliott - Elliott's Last Legacy

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Elliott was a very popular magician. Particularly some of his card effects were considered best of its kind. Nobody knew the secrets to some of Elliott's tricks. People waited impatiently for the release of this book. But it was met with some disappointment that not all of Elliott's tricks were described. We do not know which tricks these critics mean. The reason might well be that Elliott died before he could finish his book. Burgess andHoudinihad to collect Elliott's notes and fill in some of the missing explanations. However, Elliott and Houdini believed that all the material in this book was new and has never before been published.

1st edition, 1923, Adams; reprint, 1980, Coles, Canada; 324 pages.

Table of Contents

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INTRODUCTION by Houdini FOREWORD PERSONALITY by Clinton Burgess EULOGIUM by Dr. Ezra Lee Buckey A DISCIPLE OF VERSATILITY by Houdini MAGICAL EFFECTS BALL: Baseball, Magical Floating, The Fortune-telling, Right, Left, Centre Vanished Beyond Recovery BOTTLE: Chameleon, A Milk Baby, The Puzzling the Prohibitionist BOX: Japanese Magic Occidentalized Self-filling Box CANDY: Just Enough, Yet An Abundance CARD: Advantage, Elliott's Palm Animated Bat, Improved Cricket Combination, For Card Location Card Stacking for Exhibition Games Control, Mechanical Deck, Elliott's Nailed Fan Off From Vest Feat With the Feet, A Floating Card Houlette Giant Card Houlette Inseparable Jumping Card Elliott's Cards, Plates and Goblets Loading Extra Card Packet on Deck Luck, Science or Hokum? Elliott's 52-Card Poker Combination Elliott's (New) Numerical Card Producers The Elliott Method of Card Marking Nine Card Trick Novel Card Change Elliott's, Double, Triple, Quadruple, Card Productions From Body Effective, Simplex Mechanical Card Production Rising, The Giant Scissors, The Sleight for Card in Lemon, Etc. Target, New Card Think Stop CARDS: Force, A Natural Sure-Fire Giant Fan of Location, Card Palm, The Elliott, Ducrot Change-over Pass, The Elliott Pass, Elliott's Riffle Pass, Houdini's Two Effective Moves by Houdini Acrobatic Rising Card Production of Selected Card, A New Way The "O. K." Card Trick Reverse, Invisible Riffling Scaling Spelling Card Tearing Deck in Two An Original Method of Palming CHAIRS, MECHANICAL: Automatic Hat-loading Novel Chair for Huge Loads Explosion Chair Chair-cover, Correct Dimensions of CHEMICALS: Wine and Water Variation CIGAR: Single-handed Production From Nose CLEANING: Fabric, Glass, Metal, Etc. CLOTH: An Ingenious Die "Form" CONVEYING: The Art of CONVEYANCE: Secret Method of, for Borrowed Articles COINS Box, Self-filling Dropper, Welsh Miller's Money Melting, Elliott Wand, Welsh Miller's Original DIE: Wire Form for ELECTRIC: Hand-shake, A Shocking Tray, The Touch-me-not FLOWER: "Growth of Flowers," Kellar's