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| The Magician's Handbook by Selbit, 1901 | |||||||
| 'The
Magician's Handbook' by Selbit (a pseudonym of Percy
Tibbles) was published by Marshall and Brookes in London
in 1901. It contains a section about the Afghan
Bands. According to Magicpedia: 'Percy Selbit was the first to describe the Möbius strip as a method for a magic trick in the English language in 1901, coining the name 'Afghan Bands'. Information from Michel Grand. The image of page 2 is takjen from the 1902 second edition which is presumed to be identical tio the first. **********
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