How to Do Rope Tricks

Author/Originator: Harold Denhard

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Published in 1957, this well-illustrated compilation offers two dozen rope tricks, plus ideas, advice, and more. Highlights include the tying and untying of knots without letting go of the ends, as featured by the legendary Bert Allerton in his close-up performances at Chicago's famous Pump Room, the excellent cut and restored rope trick that fooled Dr. Jaks, the one-handed knot along with a double knot method, the spinning knot, ring on rope tricks, on the barrel head - an old waterfront swindle, stretching a rope, walking through a rope, the dissolving knot, Denhard's own Prize Winner rope trick (that will baffle other magicians), and more. 40 pages, illustrated by Dr. Eugene Gloye and Dr. L. Vosburgh Lyons.