BEHIND THE SCENES WITH THE MEDIUMS - Abbott, 1909 - MAGIC SPIRITUALIST TRICKS

BEHIND THE SCENES WITH THE MEDIUMSBook Details + Condition: Open Court Publishing Company (Chicago). Third revised edition, 1909. Hardcover with title and decoration to front. 340 pages, followed by publisher advertisements. By well-noted spiritualist, magician, author and inventor David Abbott (1863-1934), who here documents the "spirit channelling process" and exposes and explains the fraudulent tricks used by charlatans of the day. As a magician, he performed for invited guests in his private theater he built at his home from 1907 until he died. Many of the greats in magic - Kellar, Thurston, Horace Goldin, Theo Bamberg, Ching Ling Foo, Blackstone and Houdini among others - made pilgrimages to the Omaha Field Club neighborhood "Mystery House" to learn. Abbott was also a friend of the magician Harry Houdini. BEHIND THE SCENES is considered to be one of the best exposures of the tricks used by mediums, and went through several editions. Contents include:- Mediumistic Reading of Sealed