Drake Publishers: The Jumbo Book of Magic ©1976 Drake Publishers, Inc., NY Softcover, perfect-bound, 320 pages ISBN: 0-8473-1194-5

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Contents (source Book ToC; some page numbers estimated)

13 While Seated At the Table

13 Bills
13 The Curious Fold
13 Naming the Date on a Borrowed Bill
14 Four Piles and a Dollar Bill

14 Cigarettes
14 The Unreversed Word
15 The Magic Inhale
15 Biting the Cigarette

15 Coins
15 Coin Through the Plate
16 Vanishing Coin
16 Testing the Half Dollar

16 Matches
16 Lighting a Match Twice
17 Color Changing Heads
18 Folder Mathematics
18 Match Folder Wager
19 Shooting the Match
19 The Nazi Cross

19 Miscellaneous
19 Japanese Paper Bird
20 Tapping Table Objects
20 Vanishing Coffee Steam
21 Travelling Fountain Pen

21 Silverware
21 Table Knife Through Body
22 Breaking the Spoon
22 Bending the Spoon
22 Swallowing the Knife
23 Spoon to Knife
24 Musical Knife
24 Vanishing Spoon

24 Napkin
25 Character Reading from the Teeth
25 Improvised Brassiere
25 The Invisible Hair

26 Salt Shaker
26 Vanishing Salt Shaker

27 Indispensable Sleights

27 Indispensable Sleights
27 The Overhand Shuffle
30 The Riffle Shuffle
30 A False Cut
30 Palming a Card
31 The Simple Pass
32 The Double Lift
32 The Glide
33 A Good Location
33 Methods of Forcing Cards
34 The Knife Method

35 Improbabilities

35 Magic With Cards
35 Reggie the Rattlesnake
37 Ri-Ki-Ki Poker
39 Silken Card Discovery
41 The Travelling Phoenix
44 The Snake Charmer

46 Magic With the Mind
46 Eve v. Adam
48 "Hail O Swami"
50 Tangled Thoughts
54 The Devil's Key

57 Magic With Anything
57 No Knot
58 The Sympathetic Note Trick
60 The Jeweller's Dream
62 Which Witch?
64 The Chinese Picture
66 The Fiddled Furniture
70 The Ju-Ju Man
72 "Mud In Your Eye"
75 Coins Rampant
80 Cut and Restored Dope

90 The Continuity Gags
90 Chronological
90 Medical
90 Intentional
91 Inflatable
91 (K) Not able
92 Memorable
92 Indestructable
93 Combustible
94 Horological
94 Impersonal
95 Incredible
95 Medal
96 Unconventional
96 Gullible

97 Calculation Tricks With Ordinary Cards
97 Weirdo
98 A Prediction
98 Long Distance Mind Reading
99 Two Card Location
99 Improved Super Memory
100 Spectator's Choice
101 Mentalo
101 Knock Out Counting Trick
101 A Card and A Number
102 Projected Thought
102 No Plus Ultra
103 Uni-Mentality
104 Easy Card Divination
105 Hourglass Cards
105 Easy Card Discovery
106 Keystone Card Discovery
106 Assistance Card Trick
106 The 52 Card Trick
107 The Magi's Detection
108 The Flush Trick
108 Modernism in Mentalism
109 Four to One Detection
110 A Psychic Card Feat
110 Out on Location
111 Coincidence Extraordinary
111 Necromantic Calculation

113 Be Surprised

113 Card and Mental Magic
113 The Real Coincidence Trick
113 Telephone Telepathy
115 Alias Divination
118 Magazine Miracle
119 Strange Interlude
122 A Slate Writing Method
124 Slate Psychics
126 One Man Sealed Message
130 Predetermination
136 And a Routine
137 An Improved Four Ace Routine
139 Selective Card in Pocket
140 Si Stebbins Up the Sleeve
141 The Perfect Card Routine

146 Mostly Manipulative With Glasses
146 Glass of Liquid From Card Fan
147 Some Glassy Ideas
148 Glasses, Glasses Everywhere
150 The Pause that Refreshes
152 The Drunkard's Dream
153 A Glass Routine

153 Thimbles
153 Duo Color Change
154 Continuous Color Changing Thimble
156 Lost and Found
156 The Passing Thimbles Again
158 The Super Thimble Vanish
159 A Nu-Idea Thimble Holder
159 A Contrast Screen
160 A Thimble Routine
162 A Coin, a Match, and a Thimble

163 Miscellaneous Magic
163 The Flying Light Bulb
164 The Ideal Hank Box
165 Spello
166 A Sleight of Hand Rope Method
167 P. and G. Cut and Restored Ribbon
168 A Magical Flash Routine

171 Mysteries of a Prearranged Pack of Cards

171 Switching the Deck
172 A Moving Revelation
173 Divining Deck
174 The Transposed Cards
174 The Circle of Cards
175 A Trick Without A Clue
175 Eyes All Around
176 Count Your Cards
177 Pythagoras
177 Knock ’Em Dead
178 Self Working Mystery
179 Stop and Think
179 Novel Card Discovery
179 Improved Marvelous Prediction
180 Ready Reckoner
180 The Pair Detection
181 Dead Easy Location
181 Odd or Even
182 The Wonder Force
182 Psychic Prediction
183 Prophesied Spot Total
183 Cagliostro’s Vision
184 Quadruple Deck Mystery
185 Mephistopheles’ Touch
185 Fair and Square
186 Your Card
186 One in Fourteen
187 The Fifteenth Card
187 Sensational Card Mystery
188 New X-Ray Trick
188 Shark Food
189 Thought Foretold
189 Mysterious Detective
190 Super Count Down
191 Fate and the Joker
191 Psycholia
192 The Wizard’s Dream
192 Diabolical Transposition
193 Card Memory
194 Sensitive Thoughts
194 Red and Blue Back Mix-Up
195 Two Person Location
195 Dual Sympathy
196 Another Sympathetic Mystery
196 A Quaint Happening
197 $1,000 Test Card Location
198 Seeing With the Finger Tips
198 Lip Reading Test

227 Mental Magic
227 Wrong Number
229 A Prediction to End Predictions
232 The Payoff Prediction
234 ...Things to Come
237 The Direct Divination
237 The Phantom President
239 Picture Projection
241 Transposed Minds
243 Comedy Color-Changing Slate
245 Two Routines

247 Card Magic
247 Thought On the Line
249 Picture This - -
250 Name Your Favorite
251 Remote Reverso
252 Synchronism
255 Dual Impulsio
257 Duo Prediction
258 The Triple Enigma
259 Nu-Locato
260 Simplex Card Stabbing
261 Impromptu Fifteen Card Trick
265 Challenge Blindfold Card Routine
267 An All-Card Routine

268 Silk Magic
268 Two Silk Folds
270 Silks At the Finger Tips
272 Silks of a Color Follow Each Other
276 Silks Do As You Do
279 Twin Sympathy
282 A Silk Routine

284 Rope and Lace Magic
285 Parish's Three to One
286 Weigles's Three to One
288 Quadruple Cut
290 The Magic Laces
294 The Cut and Restored Lace Tips

295 Impromptu Card Tricks
295 Twin Souls
295 The Magic Breath
296 Reversed Court Card
297 The Sagacious Joker No. 1
298 The Trio
299 Cards of Chance
300 Rush
300 Card Detectives
300 The "Easy" Card in Wallet
301 Prediction
301 A Smart Location
302 The Whispering Queen
302 The Card Doctor
303 Stampedo
304 Color Divination
304 The Vanishing Pair
305 The Unknown Leaper
305 Self Control
306 In His Pocket
306 Find the Queen
307 Super Card Prediction
307 The Finger Points
308 The Five Card Mental Force
309 "Just Think" Mental Mystery
309 Matching the Aces
310 Supasso

311 Magic With a Svengali Pack of Cards
311 The Svengali Deck
311 Various Methods of Handling the Pack
312 Simple Effects
314 Switching Packs
314 The Three Heaps
315 Cutting the Pack With a Knife
315 The Wrapped Pack
315 Any Heap
315 Reversed Card
316 The Unseen Card
316 Think of a Card
316 Card Stabbing
316 Svengali Prediction
317 The Mystery Problem
318 The Cards and the Dice
318 Svengali Clairvoyance
318 The Prize Winner
319 The Mirage Principle
319 Mirage Deck
320 The Eye Popper
320 Svengali Mind Reading