Magic. Herman, Black. Black Herman's Easy Pocket Tricks Which You Can Do. All New Tricks. Remember Black Herman, the World's Famous Magician, Master of Legerdemain, and Great King of Mysteries. Black Herman Come Through Only Once Every Seven Years.

Magic. Herman, Black. Black Herman's Easy Pocket Tricks Which You Can Do. All New Tricks. Remember Black Herman, the World's Famous Magician, Master of Legerdemain, and Great King of Mysteries. Black Herman Come Through Only Once Every Seven Years. This Book Contains the Latest and Best Pocket Tricks-A Two Hour Performance with One Hour's Practice. 8vo, Pictorial printed blue wrappers; worn at the edges; with archival tape reinforcement of rear wrapper at spine. Np, nd, circa 1925 E250-350 'The Eighth Edition,' printed to be sold at Black Hertnan's The African Zulu'sl performances wherever He played. The rear inner cover prints a full page endorsement of the original Prince' Herman by Booker T Washington. It was, according to the Introduction, an art passed from Prince Herman who died in 1909 to Alonzo Moore who before He died in 1914 passed these secrets on to Black Herman. The second part of this booklet is a 'dream book.' These were common in the 1920s through the 1950s as guides to numbers players in the African-American community.