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Fischer, Ottokar. Holographic manuscripts describing two card tricks. In six pages, Fischer, amanuensis of the legendary Johan Nepomuk Hofzinser, describes and illustrates the working of two card effects, The Marvelous Accordance (two pages), and Marvelous Predestination (four pages). Text in English; both manuscripts signed by Fischer. Ca. 1910. Wear and tears at extremities and folds, repaired on verso; fair condition. At the bottom of one page, Fischer writes, "This trick is only for your own use! You may neither communicate it to any other person, nor publish it anywhere." From the collection of Dai Vernon.


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