Magic by Misdirection: A Discussion of the Psychology of Deception and the Application of Craft and Artiface for Accomplishing the Magician’s Objectives (Book Three of the Fitzkee Trilogy)

First edition, first printing.  226pp.   Red cloth boards with silver lettering and decoration.  8vo.  Boards a little rounded at corners and spine ends and slightly bowed.  A little toning to text block edges and endpapers else internally neat, clean and tight.  In its original worn and torn dust wrapper, chapped at edges, shelf worn with some spotting and toning,

Dariel Fitzkee was the pen name of Dariel Fitzroy, the American magician and writer.  His trilogy of works on the art of the magician – the Fitzkee Trilogy – is widely considered as an important contribution on the theory of magic.