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(MAGIC.) (Black Herman.) Black Herman's Secrets of Magic - Mystery & Legerdermain.
Illustrated. 8vo, original pictorial wrappers. Fifteenth Deluxe Edition. New York, (1938)
- Notes: Benjamin Rucker, known as "Black Herman" was born in Virginia in 1892. He became apprenticed to magician Prince Herman and succeeded to the act upon Prince's death. Black Herman had mastered all of the illusions and became popular with white and black audiences. He introduced a Houdini-type "buried alive" act into his act in 1923. When Herman keeled over dead at a performance in Louisville, the audience thought it was part of the act and refused to leave the theater. When the body was finally removed to a funeral parlor, Herman's assistant Washington Reeves declared "let's charge admission; that's what Herman would have done." Black Herman's book is one of the most popular of the "thins" that proliferate in the world of magic. This particular edition was published two years after Herman's death.
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